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Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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>> You no longer need to review the code. Or instruct the model at the level of files or functions. You can test behaviors instead. I think this is where things will ultimately head. You generate random code, purely random in raw machine readable binary, and simply evaluate a behavior. Most random generated code will not work. some, however, will work. and within that working code, some will be far faster and this is…

We would of course need to specify the behaviors to test for. The more precisely we specify these behaviors, the more complexly our end product would be able to behave. We might invent a formal language for writing down these behaviors, and some people might be better at thinking about what kind of tests would need to be written to coax a certain type of end result out of the machine. But that's future music, forgive…

If we consider other fields such as biology, behaviors of interest are specified but I'm not sure a formal language is currently being used per say. Data are evaluated on dimensional terms that could be either quantitative or qualitative. meta analysis of some sort might be used to reduce dimensionality to some degree but that usually happens owing to lack of power for higher resolution models.

One big advantage of this future random walk paradigm is you would not be bound by the real world constraints of sample collection of biological data. datasets could be made arbitrarily large and cost to do so will follow an inverse relationship with compute gains.

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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No there is no selection and no traits to pick, it's the culmination of research and human engineering. An airplan is a complex system that needs serious engineering. You can study birs but up till a certain point, if you like it go doing bird watching, but it's everything except engineering

>it's the culmination of research and human engineering. And how is this different than the process of natural selection? More fit ideas win out relative to less fit and are iterated upon.

First of all natural selection doesn't happen per se, nor is controlled by some inherent mechanism, it's the by product of many factors external and internal. So the comparison is just wrong. Human engineering is an interative process not a selection. And if we want to call it selection, even though it is a stretch, we're controlling it, we the master of puppets, natural selection is anything but a controlled process. We don't select a more resistant wing, we engineer the wing with a high bending tolerance, again it's an iterative process

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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You also no longer need to work, earn money, have a life, read, study, know anything about the world. This is pure fantasy This will be reality in 10-20 years

It's already reality if you want to, today and in 10-20 years the outcome will be the same: being an homeless! And no please no UBI bs thanks

99.9% of today’s jobs will be fully automated in 20 years. What do you think will happen to all the unemployed population?

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That's a lie, people will eventually find a way out, it was always like that, being it open source or by innovating and eventually leave the unable to innovate tech giants dying. We have Linux and this year will be the most exciting for the Linux desktop given how bad the Windows situation is

Only been hearing that for twenty years and these tech giants are bigger than they’ve ever been. I remember when people said Open Office was going to be the default because it was open source, etc etc etc. It never happened. Got forked. Still irrelevant.

I said "being it open source or by innovating" eg Google innovated and killed many, also contributed a lot to open source. Android is a Linux success, ChromeOS too. Now Google stinks and it is not innovating anymore, except for when other companies, like OpenAI, come for their lunch. Google was caught off guard but eventually catching up. Sooner or later, big tech gets eaten by next big tech. I agree if we stop innovating that would never happen, like Open Office is the worst example you could have picked

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> my experience from 5 years of coding with AI What AI have you been using for 5 years of coding?

Github Copilot was available in 2021, believe it or not. It was just auto-complete plus a chat window, but it seemed like a big deal at the time.

This caught me by surprise. Wow time flies.

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>it's the culmination of research and human engineering. And how is this different than the process of natural selection? More fit ideas win out relative to less fit and are iterated upon.

First of all natural selection doesn't happen per se, nor is controlled by some inherent mechanism, it's the by product of many factors external and internal. So the comparison is just wrong. Human engineering is an interative process not a selection. And if we want to call it selection, even though it is a stretch, we're controlling it, we the master of puppets, natural selection is anything but a controlled process…

We do select for a more resistant wing. How did we determine that this wing is more resistant? We modeled its bending tolerance and selected this particular design against other designs that had worse evaluated results for bending tolerance.

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It's already reality if you want to, today and in 10-20 years the outcome will be the same: being an homeless! And no please no UBI bs thanks

99.9% of today’s jobs will be fully automated in 20 years. What do you think will happen to all the unemployed population?

hahahahaha. Please can you advice on lottery numbers? I'd like to win a bunch of money before losing the job

Re: I was a top 0.01% Cursor user, then switched to Claude Code 2.0

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Wouldn’t this kind of setup eat away tokens at a very fast rate and even the max plan will be quickly overrun? Isn’t this a viable workflow to use Claude code to create just one pull request at a time, lightly review the code and allow it to be merged?

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the (multi) billon dollar question is when that will happen, I think, case in point: the OP is a kid in his 20s describing the history of the last 3 years or so of small scale AI Development ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/silen-naihin/details/experience/ ) How does that compare to those of us with 15-50 years of software engineering experience working on giant codebases that have years of domain rules, customers and u…

As a guy in his mid-forties, I sympathize with that sentiment. I do think you're missing how this will likely go down in practice, though. Those giant codebases with years of domain rules are all legacy now. The question is how quickly a new AI codebase could catch up to that code base and overtake it, with all the AI-compatibility best practices baked in. Once that happens, there is no value in that legacy code. Any…

Yeah agreed - It all depends on how quickly AI (or more aptly, ai driven work done by humans hoping to make a buck) starts replacing real chunks of production workflows

“prediction is hard especially about the future” - yogi berra

As a hedge - I have personally dived deep into AI coding, actually have been for 3 years now - I’ve even launched 2 AI startups and working on a third - but its all so unpredictable and hardly lucrative yet

As an over 50 year old - I’m a clear target for replacement by AI

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