Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by pizlonator 7 days ago
Some examples:

- The first web browser

- the first web browser with images

- typescript

- react

- rust

- Fil-C

- doom

- quake

- the anamorphic VM, and its follow-ups like HotSpot, and even competitors/copycats like J9, V8, JSC, etc

- Fortnite battle royale

- Roblox

- thefacebook

- ChatGPT

- Claude code

I know that’s quite a range and that’s intentional.

Anyway, I think we’ll know it when we see it.
3 comments
hahn-kev 7 days ago
Reading through that list. None of those were breakthroughs when they first came out. It took time, in some cases a long time for them to become good.
link
sonupundir 7 days ago
- Completing the full CL implementation of Emacs or better still finish Lem.

- Complete GuileMacs, the Guile implementation of Emacs. As AI is supposedly much more capable than Humans, it would be great if the above mentioned implementations are even more efficient and feature rich than Emacs!

- Something like Android (maybe even a clone?) with the Java Layer removed and replaced with CL and with Linux kernel still intact. Basically CL over Linux as opposed to the Java over Linux in Android.

- For fun, an implementation of the Lisp machines' OS with Lisp all the way down though Assembly is allowed for critical pieces. It should be a full blown modern Desktop with equivalents of what users expect from a modern OS ...

link
HardCodedBias 7 days ago
The LLM+Harness mostly helps with execution.

These are new products (generally) and that's a different class of problem.

It is possible that since LLM+harness helps with execution then we should see more experiments.

link
luke5441 7 days ago
Even then we should be able to see things that previously were not possible because they took too much effort.

For example NPCs in games that have complexity that previously was not possible.

Good games often push the boundaries a bit, so should be a good example.

Of course now we can start arguing that there isn't a lot of investment into gaming currently, because it all goes into AI. Too bad.

link
adgjlsfhk1 7 days ago
we're still at least 3 years too early for that. games usually are in a 5+ year dev cycle, so even if AI made gamedev 2x faster, we're still not at the point where the first opus 4.5 games are out
link