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Last 6 months is humanity losing control of LLMs. - Memory market cornering which mitigated the adoption of local AI despite great open model being released. - Fast penetration of IP exfiltrating tools in companies world-wide. - Developers producing more code that they can read. - Autonomous agents killing Open Source by siphoning the attention economy - Autonomous agents destroyed online communities (including HN) -…
Last 6 months is humanity losing control of LLMs. - Memory market cornering which mitigated the adoption of local AI despite great open model being released. - Fast penetration of IP exfiltrating tools in companies world-wide. - Developers producing more code that they can read. - Autonomous agents killing Open Source by siphoning the attention economy - Autonomous agents destroyed online communities (including HN) -…
If you only read bad news (i.e. mass news these days since that sells better) this will be the picture. But I have personally seen some insane stuff happen in biotech. Like, I can't believe we're lucky enough to possibly live our life in this kind of future. We already have actual therepeutics developed using Alphafold being tested right now in real clinical trials, but the next generation of stuff that will go into…
See you in 10-30 years when people are still dying of the same shit as today like oesophageal cancer and glioblastoma.
Maybe in the next century but by that time you and me both will be under the ground, and no, Amodei's doubling of human lifespan simply won't happen.
> The coding agents got really good It's since november 2025, the so called "inflection point", that I'm still wondering for who coding agents become "really good". All I observe they got better at tool call and answering questions about big codebases, especially if the question has a vague pattern to search, and they're superuseful for that! For generating production code even with a lot of steering and baby sitting…
> It's since november 2025, the so called "inflection point", that I'm still wondering for who coding agents become "really good". The answer is "for lots of people, but not you". You're doing a vague impression of being fair and even-handed, arguing for non-polarization, but underlying everything you're saying is an obvious attitude of poralizing superiority: That _your_ personal experience with AI is the real truth…
I wonder how much the 'inflection point' is a thing vs marketing. I'm sure the models got somewhat better, but even now when I'm trying to 'vibe code' a game with the latest models (combination of Codex w/ gpt5.5 and gpt5.3-codex), they really do struggle. They definitely get something barebones up and running, but it's far from a fully fledged application.
There have been plenty of small issues like tables not having the columns aligned, or the game menu being a bit offset, or one graph being a placeholder instad of connected to the actual value. And of course I've had to instruct it on all the flavour I want.
But honestly, for a simulation strategy game, especially without doing the "proper" setup from the start, it's been _very_ good.
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First of all it just underlines how shitty the web has become, second If that's your work I'd chase a career path where Claude can't one-shot this kind of dumb stuff
Curious, what's the career path you'd chase? Can you give examples of some work that you think Claude will never be able to one-shot?
Made ridiculous bank during 2019-2023, lost money 2024-2025 (I wasn't doing proper accounting at that stage, so it took a while to really internalise that the market wasn't insane anymore), looks like we'll make a decent-ish profit in 2025-2026 after pivoting the business model. Some regrets but it's possible staying in software could have been just as turbulent.
Funnily enough we're finally at the stage where I can launching my SaaS side-hustle which I've been sitting on for the past year and a half, so that could end up back in software again soon.
I would never say never, since I don't know what Claude would look like in 5 years' time, but there's plenty it can't do at the moment.
To give a concrete example, I don't let it make sweeping changes to the main "business logic" of my SaaS. Not because it's necessarily wrong but because I can't easily verify it. But I'll let it rip on peripheral stuff, or co-work with it.
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The polarization comes from the very disparate coding experiences and output quality that different people find when using these tools. For example, I've had the opposite experience of yours, generating very high quality work using Claude (such as https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai ). Just in dealing with all the bugs and idiosyncrasies in the technologies I'm using, the agent has been a godsend in discovering and c…
While reading this thread, I literally just caught an agent putting in the following CSS selector in a rule: > .row > div > div, .alert This is fairly simple CSS, not multi-threaded systems development. A bar low enough that you could trip over it. I catch this kind of stuff all the time (literally every run), but only because I read every line. Most of it wouldn't be the end of the world for any particular task, but…
LLMs have traditionally had problems with visual rendering (the good ol' pelican on the bicycle test). I wonder if this is more of the same?
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While reading this thread, I literally just caught an agent putting in the following CSS selector in a rule: > .row > div > div, .alert This is fairly simple CSS, not multi-threaded systems development. A bar low enough that you could trip over it. I catch this kind of stuff all the time (literally every run), but only because I read every line. Most of it wouldn't be the end of the world for any particular task, but…
I haven't done any CSS/HTML/JS level work with Claude yet. I've mainly been using it for systems level stuff. LLMs have traditionally had problems with visual rendering (the good ol' pelican on the bicycle test). I wonder if this is more of the same?
Like I said, this is just an example that happens to be CSS. I see this stuff daily, if not hourly.
Am I crazy, or are these differences between the best models so marginal that you’d get roughly the same performance if you use the same high-quality harness (ie preloaded instructions from md files, including custom skills)?
I asked Gemini for a video of 'pelican riding a unicycle in hyde park' - I was blown away by the output: https://gemini.google.com/share/55e250c99693