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Yes. Productivity tools make programmer time more valuable, not less. This is basic economics. You’re now able to generate more value per hour than before.

(Or if you’re being paid to waste time, maybe consider coding in assembly?)

So don’t be afraid. Learn to use the tools. They’re not magic, so stop expecting that. It’s like anything else, good at some things and not others.

Thanks, I’ve never heard this and it’s quite profound. It’s always bothered me that there even is a top speed, and further that mass becomes infinite as it’s approached. But “speed of causality” makes these less strange.

When I say “new knowledge” I mean in the David Deutsch sense. Like the discovery of new physics which Sam mentioned.

I want to be wildly optimistic too, but I still see no evidence LLMs generate new knowledge. They always hew in-distribution.

Please correct me if I’m wrong

T

Define “waste”. Then explain why your opinion should trump a free market. Then tell me how much coercion will be required to enforce it.

Problem with most chairs (including Aeron) is the bowl-shaped seat pan. It feels comfy / cradling when you first sit down, and that’s why people buy them. But as the minutes and hours go by, your pelvis is turning inward for lack of central support. Eventually you get back problems. Google Esther Gokhale for full explanation. An upwardly curved or at least flat seat pan (think old fashioned upholstered chairs or solid wood chairs) are more human designs.

Scientific progress has slowed, but engineering progress is only just beginning. For instance, the electronic transport chain of respiration/photosynthesis, is a series of quantum tunnels. Man has barely scratched the surface of quantum-level control which nature already exhibits.