Originally the word computer described a person doing the act of computation.
I believe in the future, we're going to see a similar shift in "programmer" - instead of a human programming the computer, you'll give the ai an idea and it will spit out a program.
And just like how automating the act of computation revolutionized what we could compute, automating the act of writing code will change the act of programming - hopefully, as you described, allowing us to do things that simply were not practical in the past.
“A programmer is going to the store and his wife tells him to buy a gallon of milk, and if there are eggs, buy a dozen. So the programmer goes shopping, does as she says, and returns home to show his wife what he bought. But she gets angry and asks, ‘Why’d you buy 13 gallons of milk?’ The programmer replies, ‘There were eggs!’”
"I need to fly to NY next weekend, make the necessary arrangement".
Your AI assistant orders an experimental jetpack from a random startup lab. Would you have honestly guessed that the prompt was "ambiguous" before you knew how the AI was going to act on it ?
The strength of open source software is collaboration. That many people have tried it, read it, submitted fixes and had those fixes reviewed and accepted.
We've all seen LLMs spit out garbage bugs on the first few tries. I've written garbage bugs on my first try too. We all benefit from the review process.
I would rather have a battle tested base to start customizing from than having to stumble through the pitfalls of a buggy or insecure AI implementation.
> We've all seen LLMs spit out garbage bugs on the first few tries.
I’m assuming here an extrapolation of capabilities where Claude is competitive to the median OSS contributor for the off-the-shelf libraries you’d be comparing with.
As with most of the Clawd ecosystem, for now it probably is best considered an art project / prototype (or a security dumpster fire for the non-technical users adopting it).
> The strength of open source software is collaboration. That many people have tried it, read it, submitted fixes and had those fixes reviewed and accepted
I do think that there is room for much more granular micro-libraries that can be composed, rather than having to pull in a monolithic dependency for your need. Agents can probably vet a 1k microlibrary BoM in a way a human could never have the patience to.
(This is more the NPM way, leftpad etc, which is again a security issue in the current paradigm, but potentially very different ROI in the agent ecosystem.)
The M2 models came out in 2022. You can't buy them new anymore.
Asahi linux doesn't support any of the currently sold macbooks, so I think it's fair to say modern macbooks don't run linux.
This is also at Apple's mercy, if enough people do it there's a non-zero chance they lock things down further. They've done even more consumer-unfriendly things before.
You’d think he’d want his name on a bunch of homes. Similarly, some salesman on the golf course has surely already pitched his name on a bunch of homes. I bet there’s a reason he’s been uninterested for so long.
This is exactly how us taxes should work. The IRS already has all the information it needs - it should fill out the form, give you a chance to double check, and then you're done.
