Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
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Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#2Eric Schmidt making headlines for saying
"If you're writing code traditionally, stop. It's over"
But the worst part to me, isn't the part that's making headlines - it's that he thinks we don't have any friends, and that AI will be our friends.
"Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."
Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#3Eric Schmidt making headlines for saying "If you're writing code traditionally, stop. It's over" But the worst part to me, isn't the part that's making headlines - it's that he thinks we don't have any friends, and that AI will be our friends. "Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."
This individual (Eric Schmidt) is heavily invested in lots of AI companies, which he will selectively disclose.
His entire 'job' is to go on a world tour in parading his own AI investments and for everyone to admit defeat and replace their own confidence with AI.
> "Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."
Oh dear. He is normalizing AI psychosis.
Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#4Eric Schmidt making headlines for saying "If you're writing code traditionally, stop. It's over" But the worst part to me, isn't the part that's making headlines - it's that he thinks we don't have any friends, and that AI will be our friends. "Because they're social, and they sit there, but they don't have that many friends. So they sit in their office, and they collect 10 Claude friends or 10 Gemini friends."
Coding is a tool for thinking in general.The fact that claude is accomplishing task X does not imply that you should retire you own thinking.
Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#5Sounds like either projection or the start of a crash out. Probably insulted by the booing from the plebs at his speech on stage. [1] The comments are interesting.
"Everyone regretted leaving their tomatoes at home that evening"
Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#6Guess AI will read his ads and buy his products?
Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#7I didn't have any friends even before AI.
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Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#9I will believe it when the end user is paying the actual cost of inference
Re: Eric Schmidt believes the era of writing code manually is coming to an end
#10No reason to care what this guy says.