Artificial Intelligence

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    "Something Big Is Happening"
    https://shumer.dev/something-big…

    I don't think this has been posted yet, but what a read.

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    • I’ve been glimpsing this and playing it out in my head for quite some time now. There’s an inflection point out there where if enough people are jobless ...monospaced
    • Then there’s a sort of collapse. People won’t be able to support the very businesses that benefit from AI. This isn’t a good thing.monospaced
    • I hear ya. It's an area where I really worry as a parent of an 11 and 8 year old. My son is 8, and wants to do a coding camp locally this summer, which is RAD.mg33
    • And I'm all for learning fundamentals. He's interested in game design. Uses a cool app called PixiCade to create his own side-scrolling games on his iPad.mg33
    • But like, is a coding class / camp like that even relevant now? I almost wonder if it's a rip off?mg33
    • I mean, what a summer of learning code could teach a kid is basic enough that he could use Claude right now and do 10x more complex stuff with a little learningmg33
    • Yeah it's wild. I have an incredibly smart 8 year old myself and it's hard to imagine how I can guide him into this age Generation Alpha, or AI?monospaced
    • Traditional coding will become a niche archaic art, respected for having rocketed us forward, but not useful as a career anymore.monospaced
    • I think understanding programming at least at a conceptual level is a very good skill to have. You can still build things in Claude Code or Codex if you don'tyuekit
    • know how to code, but it's obviously better if you understand what you're building. Also because programming seems to be the ideal use case for LLMs so far,yuekit
    • there will probably be a push to apply this to more and more things. For instance knowing how to code was already a common skill among scientists, but that justyuekit
    • became more important.yuekit
    • That's what I'm hoping. I'm just excited that he is into things like coding and engineering. The tool I built to make my art blew him away.mg33
    • Clickbait.jonny_quest_lives
    • google results for Matt Shumer: https://asimovaddend…jonny_quest_lives
    • https://huggingface.…jonny_quest_lives
    • https://news.ycombin…jonny_quest_lives
    • There's definitely an element of hype in the article. This is the part I'd take issue withyuekit
    • "If AI can write that code, it can help build the next version of itself. A smarter version, which writes better code, which builds an even smarter version.yuekit
    • Making AI great at coding was the strategy that unlocks everything else. That's why they did it first. My job started changing before yours..."yuekit
    • I'm not convinced that's actually true. I think AI could remain focused around coding in the near future, which again shows the importance of it.yuekit
    • In order to move beyond the current paradigm you need fundamental breakthroughs and are they saying coding agents are going to come up with that?yuekit
    • https://i.imgur.com/…jonny_quest_lives
    • No he’s saying coding agents are needed to make AI so powerful it can replace other jobs, not just coders.monospaced
    • I wonder if we’ll ever see like an uprising and destruction of AI data centers and stuff, blade runner stylemonospaced
    • But it's not a straightforward path to replacing jobs. No one knows how to build that type of AI right now.yuekit
    • Having a coding agent could speed up that process but the big challenge is to know what to build in the first place.yuekit
    • Brought to you by the fine people at Anthropic. Buy early. Buy often. For god sakes buy as much as you can! It’s going to KILL US ALL!!!monNom
    • Within just one day, this article has over 60 million views.utopian
    • plot twist: this article was written by an LLMmonNom
    • TLTRmilfhunter
    • hey chatgpt, can you sum this up into 2 sentences. thnksmilfhunter
    • The AI bubble will pop soon, the amouts of cash needed for all those data centers is just not there
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    • Again the article with 60 million views was written by a dude with a documented history of lying/faking benchmarks/ inventing an ai models that doesn't work...jonny_quest_lives
    • Something big is happening indeed.jonny_quest_lives
    • So if AI write all his code he is no longer a programmer and would be fired, so why communicate that out? I do not believe that post.Nutter
    • chill the article was on hackernews that's the effect millions of views :))
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