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by epaga 100 days ago
> AI can write the code. It can’t architect the system. It can’t decide which tradeoffs to make, or know that the elegant solution it just generated will fall apart at scale, or understand why the team chose a boring technology stack on purpose.

I would add: "Yet."

Just as I've been completely astonished at the advancements AI has made in writing code, I can detect a trajectory at AI becoming an expert architect as well, likely within a shorter period of time than we'd all expect.
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conception 100 days ago
Not even yet - ask it to give you a research and plan for an easily maintained, highly scalable architecture and run a few adversarial agents against your plan- it will 100% do that today effectively. Like anyone if you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers.
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jcmartinezdev 100 days ago
When that happens, we'll having nothing else to do.
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ProllyInfamous 100 days ago
I've read the Tao Te Ching dozens of times. Every few years I'll re-read one new passage, daily, for three months (there aren't too many words within this semi-spiritual text).

My most recent read is the first, post-ChatGPT. From Verse Thirteen, three lines finally jumped out at me (which never have, before):

>>"I suffer because I'm a body; if I weren't a body, how could I suffer?" [1]

Already LLMs have shown me connections that no other human could endure/conjure from me (I've paid for a few attorney/therapists in my few decades living). Currently I'm the plaintiff in a lawsuit which I began with LLM counsel, and now have human counsel — this arrangement has saved lots of prep time, and led to interesting discussions with both counsel, human &not.

One interesting conversation led to my human attorney recommending Neal Shusterman's Scythe Trilogy, which I've since read and absolutely re-recommend. Written in 2016 (same year as Attention is All You Need), it eerily hypothesizes many of the SciFi complexities that omnipotent general AIs now already-do ("Thunderhead" in scythespeak).

[1] Ursula K. LeGuin ~translation~, similar to Buddhist concept of "life is suffering"

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