Shower thought: too many of these predictions are coming true at the same time!
- Looking at the AI news, how long before something happens that we collectively say “you will not create a machine that thinks like a human”?
- Watching the events with Iran and oil through the strait of Hormuz is probably the clearest reminder ever that whoever is able to destroy something is able to control it.
- Trying to explain to someone how practically to use an AI code assistant, I might provisionally describe it as “like talking to a child who knows everything. Their reasoning is basic but their brain contains all knowledge of history”.
Should the next Claude be called Alia?
I use these platforms for codegen on a number of personal projects where api endpoints are defined and writing all the glue code is a chore. My working thesis is these systems help if you’re reinventing the wheel. But if you’re making something that’s new computer science you are going to have to think and do it yourself.