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The copium is I think many people got comfortable post financial crisis with nothing much changing or happening. I think many people really liked a decade stretch with not much more than web framework updates and smart phone versioning.

We are just back on track.

I just read Oracular Programming: A Modular Foundation for Building LLM-Enabled Software the other day.

We don't even have a new paradigm yet. I would be shocked that in 10 years I don't look back at this time of writing a prompt into a chatbot and then pasting the code into an IDE as completely comical.

The most shocking thing to me is we are right back on track to what I would have expected in 2000 for 2025. In 2019 those expectations seemed like science fiction delusions after nothing happening for so long.

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Reading the Oracular paper now, https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=44211588

It feels a bit like Halide, where the goal and the strategy are separated so that each can be optimized independently.

Those new paradigms are being discovered by hordes of vibecoders, myself included. I am having wonderful results with TDD and AI assisted design.

IDEs are now mostly browsers for code, and I no longer copy and paste with a chatbot.

Curious what you think about the Oracular paper. One area that I have been working on for the last couple weeks is extracting ToT for the domain and then using the LLM to generate an ensemble of exploration strategies over that tree.