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You should see the spaghetti code that humans working 70 hour weeks for months on end to meet a launch date have pushed out.

You can be in the driver seat while delegating implementation to agents. You can use agents to generate documentation and refactor architectures. You can ask an agent to explain a feature and then work with it to plan how to extend it.

You don’t have to type the code to be the architect.

"No more hand-written code"

Isn't this the new norm for every modern tech company?

Claude Code can help me write and review code faster and better than a human possibly could. I spend my time drafting requirements, steering agents and reviewing diffs instead of writing code manually.

AI is changing knowledge work. Dressing that up with ragebait (game dev, Disney, layoffs) doesn't change that or the fact that the video game industry has always been brutally fickle and hit-driven. The Epic layoffs earlier this year had far more to do with the decline of Fortnite's popularity than AI.

Companies used to *need* to go public in order to either raise capital or because they were going to have to start publicly reporting anyways due to the number of shareholders.

The JOBS Act and proliferation of double-vesting trigger RSUs effectively negated these forcing functions and 'going public' went from a necessary growing pain to a burden and distraction.

Tristan Buckmaster’s post cited extensive use of LLMs in the process of his collaboration with Levent:

“We used several LLMs throughout: Anthropic’s Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, especially with GPT-5.6 Sol and, more recently, Astra.

The latter was only used for writeups and auditing our arguments. For most of the past year progress was slow. We worked through the literature and upgraded various preliminary results, up to obtaining finite time blow up for the Incompressible Porous Media equation (with smooth forcing).

This was until about a month ago, when we had real progress: on August 15th, we obtained the blow up results, with smooth forcing, for both Boussinesq and Euler. I can say the first LLM generated proof Levent sent me was the most horrendous I have ever read; we verified it on Lean on August 22nd. Since this point, we have been working around the clock to understand this proof and turn it into something readable.”

The OpenAI research post states they began training GPT-6 internally on August 28th, and that user chats are used to train models.

“We (the researchers and the agents) did not see any of their work through any means until they released it publicly — in particular, no specific user data was accessed in order to solve this problem. While unlikely, we cannot rule out that de-identified data derived from their usage of our products helped improve our models .”

For an incredibly niche topic like this, I believe it’s extremely likely that Buckmaster/Levant’s work would influence the direction of OpenAI’s agents’ work even as a de-identified drop in the overall bucket of training data.

We already live in a world where parents decide whether or not a child with Down Syndrome will be born.

60-90% of prenatal diagnoses in the US result in an elective termination. The number is nearly 100% in Iceland and some other Nordic countries. Unlike autism or ADHD, we have a very clear understanding of exactly what causes Down Syndrome and now potentially how to correct it. A treatment like this is no different from correcting a congenital heart defect - it gives a baby a chance at normal, healthy development.

You’re neglecting the fact that each one of those businesses had a plan, they just pivoted to more successful plans.

The title is a lie - the original statement was that it was closer to “a small game engine” than a basic text UI.

CC has a complex scene rendering pipeline with a 16ms/frame budget. That is much closer to a game engine than a print statement.

Languages are thought encodings.

Most people can only encode/decode a single language but an LLM can move between them fluidly.

Amazon has surpassed Newegg as my online parts provider of choice.

It's not that things can't go wrong, it's just that they are much better at handling it than Newegg these days.

We are in the process of abandoning ChatGPT Enterprise because Google is now bundling Gemini access for free with Google Workspace.

If OpenAI is not safe from anticompetitive practices then no YC startup is.

This explains a lot about Ork Mekboyz.

Well there was that one time Germany owed everyone a lot of money after the Treaty of Versailles and it kind of directly led to Hitler’s rise to power and another World War… makes sense for them to be a bit more conservative than other countries.

It seems you are under the impression that the venture capital firm cofounder by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz was created by a single individual.

If you can’t get basic facts correct no one is going to take your other claims seriously. A16Z has a diverse portfolio of investments and are as famous as they are because of how successful their companies have been.