at this point employees should be kept in cold storage to acclimate so as to prevent being shocked from any more chilling announcements. also will cut down on bathroom breaks
This is not true at all - I have been using the Pro level AIs to automate my 150k a year automation engineer job for over 2 years and have reduced my workload by about 95%, no joke (AI writes great selenium tests). This is a real, measurable amount of work - it used to be that you had to be pretty smart to write code and now anybody can vibe code an automation test framework in literally one afternoon. I know because I did it a few months ago for my new role. It is beyond game changing for the reason - I can only imagine what actually productive people are doing - this is a 100x productivity multiplier.
It doesn't even make mistakes anymore - the biggest issue is making sure it doesn't get lazy with the number of assertions
well i am the only qa engineer i do all the cicd too and load testing - the company only had manual testing and I wrote the framework that we use today - but it is easy work yes - and it's 150k - um i guess i thought a bigger number would sound better
I have never learned so quickly in my entire life than to post a forum thread in its entirety into a extended think LLM and then be allowed to ask free form questions for 2 hours straight if I want to. Having my questions answered NOW is so important for me to learn. Back in the day by the time I found the answer online I forgot the question
Same. I work in the film industry, but I’ve always been interested in computers and have enjoyed tinkering with them since I was about 5. However, coding has always been this insurmountably complicated thing- every time I make an effort to learn, I’m confronted with concepts that are difficult for me to understand and process.
I’ve been 90% vibe coding for a year or so now, and I’ve learned so much about networking just from spinning up a bunch of docker containers and helping GPT or Claude fix niggling issues.
I essentially have an expert (well, maybe not an expert but an entity far more capable than I am on my own) who’s shoulder I can look over and ask as many questions I want to, and who will explain every step of the process to me if I want.
I’m finally able to create things on my computer that I’ve been dreaming about for years.
"Yes they crashed into a wall and all died, whereas you steered around it, but you must acknowledge that they crashed twice as quickly as you didn't crash. If you were driving their car, you would have just slowed them down."
People should have read to the end of "Building a C compiler with a team of parallel Claudes"[1]:
The resulting compiler has nearly reached the limits of Opus [4.6]’s abilities. I tried (hard!) to fix several of the above limitations but wasn’t fully successful. New features and bugfixes frequently broke existing functionality.
"tried (hard!)" is very ominous. I wonder how Mythos would fare. Presumably it would get further, maybe much further. But I strongly doubt the "frequently broke existing functionality" problem was solved. Eventually humans have to understand the most difficult parts of the code. Good luck with that!
The important point is that 2 years ago these AI tools were like 20% percentile for UX designers, today it is as good as a junior or normal UI UX Developer, 2 years from now it will be in 90th percentile, etc
well he is the wealthiest most powerful person in the world right now, mainly because of SpaceX - I think this gives him plot armour until his eventual demise in 8.3 years
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