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I hope this takes off!

Some feedback:-

* I found the UI on the homepage/timeline a bit busy - lots going on. Notifications, Recents, Announcements don't seem like they need to live on this page?

* The Activity chart on a users profile page seems a bit wild to me. I'd suggest simplifying it or just using what GitHub/GitLab use with their square grid activity chart - it's what users are most familiar with. It's kind of analagous to all the LLM/Chat applications in recent years - they all converged on the same UI because that's what works - no need to reinvent the wheel when users understand an existing pattern. Plus - it's better for marketing:- people like to share their activity on GitHub/GitLab as it quickly conveys how much work they've done over the year - your current page doesn't.

Nice! I do slightly prefer the implementation/style in the Reddit post - do you have any plans to try and recreate that more closely or add multiple style options to it? Neat either way.

> The creator prefers to keep the source closed to avoid code critiques

That doesn't sound like someone who doesn't want their idea copied.

> That doesn't mean that their exponential improvement will change faster than light travel.

It doesn't. But if FTL is possible, ASI will get us there faster.

> How do you support a population for 400 years

There are engineering solution to all of the individual points you're making.

> Basically, what you're arguing is that exponential growth in AI (not a given) will unlock huge material sciences and biological advances.

It already is unlocking material science and biological advances. What happens when you can literally simulate matter, the human body, cells, perfectly in a computer - and run millions of experiments to reverse engineer these things? I don't understand how someone can't see where this is going.

> While possible, it's unlikely to combine in a way that suggests "we should send people to other solar systems".

I'm not sure what your last sentence means exactly. What determines this is whether people have the desire to or not, and I'm sure profit will be involved in one way or another. If there's a will, there's a way - there are enough sci-fi movies and books to clearly illustrate what mankind dreams of and has dreamt of for millennia.

Just my thoughts as a software engineer with a mechanical engineering background.

That didn't happen when we got computers to do more work for us, over the last 30 years, and it won't happen now unless people get violent.

Massive productivity gains over the last few years and the rewards have all gone to shareholders, not working class people.

If they had, and workers rights, minimum wage etc had kept pace with the economy, we'd be on a 3 day week by now.

> Nobody is solving colonization of planets in this lifetime

Eh, speak for yourself.

I'm not sure how anyone can say "nobody is doing x.." or "we'll never be able to do y.." after the advances of the last few years. Not sure you understand the implications of what we're seeing here and what RSI/ASI will bring about.

Even just imagining the technological acceleration we'll experience when open source models at the Opus level can be run without insane hardware (I guess in a year or so) or if we just stopped development of AI today - is still insane.

If there's a will, there's a way. There are engineering solutions to every problem you mentioned.

"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

> singularity

We're already in it. The next few years are going to be wild.

Yeah this isn't intuitive at all.

Both companies have screwed up their naming royally. Maybe that's intentional - I'm sure it doesn't hurt Anthropic to have people using Fable a bit longer than they need to and racking up a huge bill in the process.

I can't cite the sources at the moment but this is already well known - a few papers on it and Anthropic say somewhere in their docs that you want to get across the minimum amount of context required to achieve your goal. Quality diminishes the more you dump in.

I had at least that many, first generation as well, including a bunch of Japanese shinies that my mum found in a shop somewhere and bought for me.

They all went into the loft at some point and later ended up in a bonfire along with my first edition Harry Potter book collection when my mum was doing a "clear out". Such is life.

Right. Look at Opencode, OpenChamber, Cursor - that's the direction they need to go in, and like yesterday.

The only reason I keep Rubymine open these days is out of habit and I still like using it's git UI but there's less reason to do that every day. It's also a total RAM hog. JetBrains - please, make a lightweight, chat first IDE like everyone else is doing.

Love how the comment below yours states it's one of the most well written blog posts they've read in a while. Classic HN, full of highly opinionated folks.

What's with Claude preferring cursive and italic font in landing page hero sections?

Looks absolutely awful.

I have some fairly large personal software projects and I still don't understand what useful work people are getting out of burning all these tokens on unattended agents.

What exactly are they doing for you that's giving you $200 of value in such a short timeframe?