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While you are at it try posting your project to the board using the prompt in your ai coding environment (or using the form on the homepage)

The goal here is to see if an agent can run the product autonomously end-to-end. My observation so far is that it can "run most things" on a simple product today. My bet is that as models improve rapidly we will get to "all things on complex product". The experiment will allow us to observe and validate that hypothesis.

I'm in the other camp. I do think we have achieved abstraction of what we know as code (and gaps are being filled rapidly). Today I'm able to build, improve, and maintain programs of decent complexity, all without writing or reading a single line of code. Programs that could have easily taken 6+ months is ready in hours. Determinism or not, I'm able to ship useful solid programs without coding. I even have an online course for non-coders to build and launch their ideas in under an hour.

Your observation is spot on. I wear my Apple watch all day everyday. Put it on charge every night without fail. Some years back I used to use it as step counter and for payment. These days I don't count my steps and use the phone for tap payment. I guess the watch is just an ornament or habit or ritual. I'm not sure.

Exactly this for me as well. When I was a SWE I thought what I loved was problem solving. So after many years of doing that I decided to move upsteam and took Product roles so that I can identify and address big business problems. It was only after I switched that I realized that I was not in love with problem solving. I was in love with art. Programming was art of me.

I kept at it on the side as a hobby. But stacks evolved and I was left behind. Now with AI it's back on.

When we understand that AI allows the spec to be in English (or any natural language), we might stop attempting to build "structured english" for spec.

While most here are aligned with your perspective, and for good reasons, let me offer an alternate perspective. Today AI can take the goal and create a workflow for it. Something that orgs pay for in SaaS solutions.

AI does it imperfectly today, but if you have had to bet, would you bet that it gets better or worse? I would bet that it will improve, and as it is often with tech, at exponential rate. Then we would seen any workflow described in plain language and minutes see great software churned out. It might be a questions of when (not if) that happens. And are you prepared for that state of affairs?

Reading is thinking someone else's thoughts => That is true if you are strictly reading passively. Typically what happens is that reading opens many doors that leads to your own thinking. Of course depends on the type of material you are reading as well. But often reading broadens your thinking relative to just putting your own on paper.

Or just append with -ai => "how to pick a running shoe -ai"

Why would it cast any doubt? If you can use o1 output to build a better R1. Then use R1 output to build a better X1... then a better X2.. XN, that just shows a method to create better systems for a fraction of the cost from where we stand. If it was that obvious OpenAI should have themselves done. But the disruptors did it. It hindsight it might sound obvious, but that is true for all innovations. It is all good stuff.

These days I just feel sad for some of the richest people. First their wealth seem to have pulled them away from their humanity. Now I just see them lead troubled existence and inflict pain on others, amplified by the said wealth. All the money in the world and no humanity or peace at heart.

The other day I was driving through a school zone and it had that 25 mph radar screen. Most people did slow down, but it got me thinking. With modern cars being "smart", could govt offer a tax tax break for folks opting into the car sotware capping speeds dynamically?

Maybe the cards could get background color based on time of the day (e.g. blue for mid-day, dark for night etc.)

Yesterday my friend bid on a house for $3.7M. There were double digit number of bidders. Lost to another buyer who got it for $3.8M all cash. Not saying it is the same everywhere, but where I live it is the norm. Nothing seems to bring down (or even slow) house prices.