Yes! A great example is this idea that AGI will basically replace the entire programming and …
Yes! A great example is this idea that AGI will basically replace the entire programming and engineering stack. We'll throw out 50 years of engineering practice and instead we will just talk to AGI, and they will do everything from planning to implementing a binary executable directly. I heard variations of this fantasy for 2 years now, it sounds amazing. Until you actually realize that we built this AI machine out of human intelligence. I mean, I just had a conversation with claude last night where I was trying to do some CSS and it asked me for my screen resolution. It made a passing comment saying "Your resolution is small? That's weird. Anyway..." What about your programming caused you to say that? That's a fair question and I should think about it honestly. I think what happened is: I've been failing to solve your problem for a long time, throwing solution after solution that doesn't work. …
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