Nördnytt! 🤓AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton
- hintymad - 2830 sekunder sedanIn the latest interview with Claude Code's author: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lennys-podcast-product..., Boris said that writing code is a solved problem. This brings me to a hypothetical question: what if engineers stop contributing to open source, in which case would AI still be powerful enough to learn the knowledge of software development in the future? Or is the field of computer science plateaued to the point that most of what we do is linear combination of well established patterns?
- m_ke - 6167 sekunder sedanIt's the new underpaid employee that you're training to replace you.
People need to understand that we have the technology to train models to do anything that you can do on a computer, only thing that's missing is the data.
If you can record a human doing anything on a computer, we'll soon have a way to automate it
- finnjohnsen2 - 3867 sekunder sedanI like this. This is an accurate state of AI at this very moment for me. The LLM is (just) a tool which is making me "amplified" for coding and certain tasks.
I will worry about developers being completely replaced when I see something resembling it. Enough people worry about that (or say it to amp stock prices) -- and they like to tell everyone about this future too. I just don't see it.
- oxag3n - 4091 sekunder sedan> We're thinking about AI wrong.
And this write up is not an exception.
Why even bother thinking about AI, when Anthropic and OpenAI CEOs openly tell us what they want (quote from recent Dwarkesh interview) - "Then further down the spectrum, there’s 90% less demand for SWEs, which I think will happen but this is a spectrum."
So save thinking and listen to intent - replace 90% of SWEs in near future (6-12 months according to Amodei).
- xlerb - 4606 sekunder sedanHumans don’t have an internal notion of “fact” or “truth.” They generate statistically plausible text.
Reliability comes from scaffolding: retrieval, tools, validation layers. Without that, fluency can masquerade as authority.
The interesting question isn’t whether they’re coworkers or exoskeletons. It’s whether we’re mistaking rhetoric for epistemology.
- pavlov - 6097 sekunder sedan> “The AI handles the scale. The human interprets the meaning.”
Claude is that you? Why haven’t you called me?
- acjohnson55 - 3262 sekunder sedan> Autonomous agents fail because they don't have the context that humans carry around implicitly.
Yet.
This is mostly a matter of data capture and organization. It sounds like Kasava is already doing a lot of this. They just need more sources.
- delichon - 9657 sekunder sedanIf we find an AI that is truly operating as an independent agent in the economy without a human responsible for it, we should kill it. I wonder if I'll live long enough to see an AI terminator profession emerge. We could call them blade runners.
- bGl2YW5j - 5606 sekunder sedanI like the analogy and will ponder it more. But it didn't take long before the article started spruiking Kasava's amazing solution to the problem they just presented.
- givemeethekeys - 3946 sekunder sedanCloser to a really capable intern. Lots of potential for good and bad; needs to be watched closely.
- yifanl - 4498 sekunder sedanAI is not an exoskeleton, it's a pretzel: It only tastes good if you douse it in lye.
- dwheeler - 4562 sekunder sedanI prefer the term "assistant". It can do some tasks, but today's AI often needs human guidance for good results.
- sibeliuss - 3329 sekunder sedanThis utterly boring AI writing. Go, please go away...
- hintymad - 4298 sekunder sedanOr software engineers are not coachmen while AI is diesel engine to horses. Instead, software engineers are mistrels -- they disappear if all they do is moving knowledge from one place to another.
- ge96 - 5604 sekunder sedanIt's funny developing AI stuff eg. RAG tools and being against AI at the same time, not drinking the kool aid I mean.
But it's fun, I say "Henceforth you shall be known as Jaundice" and it's like "Alright my lord, I am now referred to as Jaundice"
- xnx - 5955 sekunder sedanAn electric bicycle for the mind.
- mikkupikku - 5324 sekunder sedanExoskeletons sound cool but somebody please put an LLM into a spider tank.
- functionmouse - 5338 sekunder sedanblogger who fancies themselves an ai vibe code guru with 12 arms and a 3rd eye yet can't make a homepage that's not totally broken
How typical!
- lukev - 4667 sekunder sedanFrankly I'm tired of metaphor-based attempts to explain LLMs.
Stochastic Parrots. Interns. Junior Devs. Thought partners. Bicycles for the mind. Spicy autocomplete. A blurry jpeg of the web. Calculators but for words. Copilot. The term "artificial intelligence" itself.
These may correspond to a greater or lesser degree with what LLMs are capable of, but if we stick to metaphors as our primary tool for reasoning about these machines, we're hamstringing ourselves and making it impossible to reason about the frontier of capabilities, or resolve disagreements about them.
A understanding-without-metaphors isn't easy -- it requires a grasp of math, computer science, linguistics and philosophy.
But if we're going to move forward instead of just finding slightly more useful tropes, we have to do it. Or at least to try.
- blibble - 5774 sekunder sedanan exoskeleten made of cheese
- filipeisho - 4005 sekunder sedanBy reading the title, I already know you did not try OpenClaw. AI employees are here.