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Have you considered the possibility that other people have an inner life that is as deep as your own

documentation?

Correction: maintenance of an indie 2D RPG game that had existed for a few decades already.

I think those mismatched expectations are a direct result of how Google has designed and promoted the feature, and it's even worse for people with less tech literacy.

> That makes a lot of sense in a world where we’re importing all our software from strangers. It makes less sense in the world we’re heading to, where most of the software we’re carving up fiefdoms for has the same provenance.

If I'm running software written by an LLM, even if I was the one who prompted the LLM, I would still want my OS to treat it as if written by a stranger.

I know he's not necessarily talking about relaxing security models here, but he's not being very specific about his vision otherwise.

What are the "simulated answers" for the public figures based on? They don't seem to be direct quotes, so I assume they're AI-generated in their voice from the sources? I'd make that more clear since you risk misrepresenting people's opinions.

Not everyone has had such a positive experience... And anyway, whatever value AI provides doesn't put it beyond criticism.

I doubt that's true

  > Spending upwards of 75% of my time directly or indirectly dealing with AI every day...

I loved Scratch as a kid and got really deep into it. Not sure if I could call myself a "success story" but it did get me much more comfortable with programming!

Before Scratch I think the two biggest barriers in my childhood programming experiments were 1) Remembering all the different syntax and function names, and 2) Being bored by the basic CLI programs that all tutorials started with. Scratch helped with both of those. It had a palette with all possible commands available to you, it was impossible to make syntax errors, and it was visually-oriented so I could dive right into making games. Lowering those barriers helped me learn how to structure code in a fun way, so when I did eventually go back to the "real" languages I felt much less lost.

I also remember really loving the social features, getting comments on my work, and collaborating with people.

I'd love to see more experimentation in this area, there's definitely potential for a more modernized educational language that builds on these ideas.

If it can't find an LSP binary, Eglot will prompt you to pick one, and tell you which one it was looking for. That seems reasonable to me. I wouldn't want Emacs to download and install random binaries on my system automatically.

If all that the author was saying was "LLM weights are highly compressed encodings of knowledge", I wouldn't have any complaints. He is making much bolder claims than that.

And if he was describing LLMs as "just another tool", I wouldn't be complaining either.

There's a lot of very strong claims made at the start of this article.

(emphasis mine)

> A Large Language Model (LLM) is like a small zip file that contains all human knowledge.

> In a strange but real way the resulting tiny file contains all the information that is on the internet and in our libraries.

> Likewise, the LLM could recognize the face of almost any person, and it could generate any possible human face,

All writings? All of human knowledge in general? Any person??

The example he gives for writing is Shakespeare, which might be one of the most overrepresented writers in the entire training dataset. So yes, of course LLMs can replicate his writings with high accuracy. That doesn't mean that the same applies to literally all of human writings and knowledge.

> We've never had a system to integrate everything we know and everything we can imagine.

Yeah, we still don't.

At first I thought he was just being intentionally hyperbolic for effect, but the rest of the article is even worse. From the closing paragraph:

> We’ll soon depend on this oracle to such an extent that we’ll wonder how we lived without it.

No! AI is not an oracle! That is honestly an extremely dangerous way to think about this technology.

This is the type of baseless hype that OpenAI and Anthropic have been exploiting for years, and I really wish it would stop.

I'm glad the JSDoc type syntax is still getting some focus. It's my favorite way to use typescript in my own projects. Some of the syntax changes will be annoying to update but most of them seem to be for the better.

Very cool. It's not the ideal environment but it's nice to have those tools available when you need it / are bored. Termux saved me on a few homework assignments in university.