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Quite a few responses to your questions based on current state of AI.

Firstly, this is never going backwards. It will only get more capable. There will likely be algo changes that unlock new capabilities over time. There are definitely areas that humans have the advantage but this is similar to the “god of the gaps” concept in that the area where people have an advantage will reduce over time.

There’s currently no real understanding in the model and it’s really amazing what we can do with hyper-autocomplete. Humans made that happen. We’re the ones doing the innovation.

We’ve long been in the business of automating jobs away. This time it’s our own.

For the foreseeable future, get good at leveraging it and stay current.

(Intuition: AI is also good at the business layers. It can probably produce better specs than many (not all) people paid to do it. It can generate ideas and communicate them in many formats. It’s super confident, so could easily be a consultant. I don’t think the business analysts and strategy people should be too confident.)

We are there - right now - and it’s about as predictably awful (or awfully predictable?) and exactly as the hype-men said: paraphrased, that it means everyone can now have their own Junior/Intern/Subcontractors to delegate “menial” programming work to.

Regrettably I don’t have the link saved on my iPad I’m using right now, but there’s a public GitHub repo where all commits are made by sone LLM-based agent with zero human intervention - IIRC its a React+NodeJS app (cliche as it is) - all commits are made in response to Issues/Tasks filed by human users but humans can’t touch the code themselves - I couldn't tell it it was/is a genuine experiment - or a glorified arts project…

But if it is a demonstration of what the state-of-the-art is, then from what I could tell it was a strange kind of managed-chaos: from what I remember seeing the codebase was a complete dog’s dinner: LLMs are great at dropping-in dozens of lines of code to a new - or existing method/class/function, but utterly hopeless at keeping the codebase coherent - and LLMs (just like so many subcontractors I’ve dealt with myself) never push-back against bad ideas. Even if an LLM/agent did decide to do some kind of code-cleanup, it’s easy to see how a jumble of glorified copilot addendums results in .js/.ts files far larger than their context-window could take).

…but the miracle was that this repo had tests - and the tests all passed! (I think, perhaps, any test-failures triggered an automatic prompting of LLMs to fix the tests? So that’s to be expected).

Now assuming that repo was actually using “real AI” (as opposed to Amazon’s retail computer-vision AI: “Actually Indians”) I don’t know what technique they used to stop hallucinations of nonexistent APIs from breaking everything.

If anyone else knows that repo, I’m interested to hear your thoughts.

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I am not a developer, but AI helps me to translate my thoughts more fluidly to real world things. I am learning a lot about development but it allows me to think openly and vaguely into the GPT and iterate to my intent and goal. I love it. Embrace it and find out how it can make a clone of you so you can have an harem of AI alts that @rcconf(N) can be thrown at a particular problem of your choosing.

Imagine having a bunch of them as a bot swarm of AIs that you can have an orchestration layer upon which itself is one of them tuned to manage them.

"In Lak'ech" Mayan: I am another yourself.

That will be great.

Also when you can adopt expert personas from others that are personal AGI lego.

Are you talking about the end products or about the process of creating them? The GP talks about the craft of the woodworker, not about the furniture. Me as a customer don't really care how the knife was made, as long it's a good looking sharp and sturdy knife. Same way, the customer of the AI produced software again will only care whether the software addresses their needs and has good UX. And I fully believe AI tools will give that, rather sooner than later, even if with human help.