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I had a locally hosted model write its own semantic search system that indexed 250,000 documentation and code files and then write a fully functioning mod for one of the games I play based on that documentation that I couldn't get to work after 2 weeks of my own effort, all in under 4 hours (and that included a 25 minute long indexing process). This freaked me out enough that I then had it write a CLI based activity…
When I realized that an LLM can process all the traffic in Slack that overwhelms me daily and give me a manageable digest. How long until they intermediate most of our social interactions? Sooner than we can possibly adapt, I think.
If you social interactions can be mediated by a chatbot I implore you to find better social interaction
I immediately realized that it meant my time as a programmer in the traditional sense was going to come to an end relatively soon.
On December 1, 2022 I created my first agentic coding loop experiment. I launched one of the first AI code generation websites that would generate web pages along with embedded images in January 2023.
Non-technical people I know are starting to take AI responses to their questions as 100% true fact.
--Charles Babbage
Blind trust in the machine for a certain type of user seems to be endemic since the beginning.
Look, not to brag but DALL-E's "armchair in the shape of an avocado" was mine ( https://openai.com/index/dall-e/ ). I remember trying to convey the gravity of this capability to my friends at the time, who I guess were not as impressed as me.
I asked Claude to add support for multiple lights to my toy ray-tracer. It correctly added the support and then suggested adding colored lights to make it easier to diagnose. It felt more like a colleague making a useful suggestion than any sort of pure engineering tool.
Never experienced any kind of panic, only excitement. I told Github Copilot to add documentation to a function and it documented how the code was used even though there was nothing in the function to indicate how it was used. It somehow knew from the code pattern why I was writing that function.
My most recent one: Taking a bricked ipad and plugging it into my linux laptop, then telling deepseek to fix it. A couple of hours and twenty sudo passwords later it was working again.