Traditional languages may have their limitations, but [C++, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript etc] can still do pretty well.
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Traditional languages may have their limitations, but [C++, Rust, JavaScript, TypeScript etc] can still do pretty well.
The sole idea of containerising an application, its utils and dependencies all into one container is a real big deal in early 2010s. The product has been so visionary that it has been re-pivoted as secure sandboxes which is most needed right now. Kudos!
This is correct for now, but I recently read that 90% of Anthropic's code is written by Claude Code itself. So, if an AI is using its previous version to train the next version, we're not far from the day where these models will take up the decision making process too. For eg: Decisions API by OpenAI or Jev is based exactly on this. What if a model like Jev sits behind Opus 5.5 and guides it to take the next step? Wooh.
Probabilistic predictions right now are at 99% for frontier models. They will never be 100%, but if humans rate themselves 99.9% in decision making, that benchmark can be broken.
Treating MCP as a part of OpenAPI rather than a tool connector is a direction in which we're heading. It is important for the users to have the flexibility of deciding the model, work to be done and the tool call in one prompt. The framework sets up the configuration and gets the output.
I've been actively using it since the past couple of months and it has rarely disappointed me.
All this doesn't change the fact that software engineers are going nowhere because nobody trusts AI. If a model can escape highly secured sandboxes, then we're definitely not running these agents overnight on our systems. I am sure the next-gen of models will focus more on security and the trust factor will start developing, but that's a long way down the road.
People trust people, not systems.
DSec is a good step in this direction!
If that's the case, then it's a brilliant strategy by the labs to cut down cross-AI usage and just stick to one model. But I'm pretty sure this won't be the case.
Instead of paying designers and editors the big bucks, enterprises can use such models to be self-reliant.
The next big thing is Robots and some stealth company building today is going to be a trillion-dollar giant in few years time.
These models are significantly cutting down the token costs by almost 40-50% as compared to their predecessors. This is exactly what people need - cutting edge intelligence at half the cost.
Excited to see what the future holds for them!
Token consumptions are flying through the roof and optimisation is the way forward.
I am particularly fascinated by labs like DeepMind [https://deepmind.google/science/]. The recent advances in their frontier models that are able to predict diseases before they're diagnosed is incredible. This is what AI should be built for and actually do!
PRs may look old fashioned, but they're a very clear way of tracking an issue that may need multiple reviews. With Delta, things can get confusing after more than two reviews + RBAC is another challenge if the agent has similar context for every category.
This article will be very useful for people who might shift back to older PHP versions for compatibility and face it.
I don't know if Google Maps/Earth expose the layout via external APIs, but if you could find a way to get the outer world to match the real view - that makes it 100/100.
Claude is pretty good at adding focused changes and if a fix is already present, then it correctly points it out rather than adding unnecessary refactors.
This is a valid tradeoff for one-off responses but if we're dealing with a distributed system (eg: Kafka), then only the high-confidence responses (>0.8) should move forward as input to the next service. If a low confidence output is propagated, then it can break the entire chain.
If you're as productive as an engineer in 2016, you're not at the level that's expected. A 7 day workflow back then should take you maybe a day or less to work on today.
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I think that intertwining two entities (living/non-living) is still challenging but overall they're pretty sound.