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by thrixton
46 days ago
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Absolutely. Things which used to take me a week to grind through, finding edge cases, trial and error, researching online, now takes an afternoon directing an agent and verifying the solution. For a generalist, it's a huge force multiplier. |
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In the future, there will be no more generalists with your capabilities. At all. No one will ever develop the skill. We're at the end of our career's lifetime. We're like the horse watching more and more cars appearing.
Within a generation, the coding languages we use today will all vanish, to be replaced with direct to metal methods, assembly, etc. The only reason C exists, is for humans. PHP, rust, python is for humans. There will be no more compilers. No more human-readable languages. No more scripting with readable code.
No more open or closed source.
Imagine taking every aspect of computing which is designed for humans to understand, and removing it, because it's redundant.
Now once removed, and once humans no longer understand on their own, imagine trying to build something independently? Imagine trying to bootstrap modern compute, without all the layers which came before?
My point is that soon, perhaps 20 years, most humans will be incapable of coding, developing, or working with compute in any way outside of an end-user role. Even those previously skilled, will now be looking at an entire kernel written in assembly.
And that's before new CPUs appear, with new assembly. New assembly, once again, not designed by or for humans to understand. And yes, current assembly is designed that way.
We are not simply looking at a bit of help here. We're looking at the entire end of every single computing job, ever. We're looking at the complete loss of control, of something which is the underpinning of our entire society. Every aspect of everything we have, runs on a chip now. Personal transport, everything in health care, everything in resource extraction, everything harvesting food through to delivery to table, all of it involves some aspect of compute.
And we soon will not comprehend nor create that underlying aspect of society.
I dunno. It all seems like the answer to the fermi paradox.