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Ordinarily, I would say the current situation is great for innovation and economic growth. Only in the case of potentially soon creating very capable LLMs is it questionable. Which situation would bring more innovation and economic growth: a few companies having AGI or every engineer having it? I've been thinking about that a lot, and I'm not sure which it is.

Let's say software really can be written completely autonomously by LLMs. I think it d be important to put that leverage in the hands of individual software engineers to build even more and faster, and avoid it being entirely in the hands of a few companies

We still need a human in the loop at the moment to make sure the behavior of the code corresponds to what is expected. If you think about it, breaking the code is breaking the wanted behavior, even when the copy-pasted code might work perfectly.

I mostly copy and paste to and from AI Chats, have it sometimes write a "complete feature or class" but either read the diff between the generated code and the previous existing one thoroughly or test it and go back and forth with the LLM.

I like the idea too, it feels like a browser able to run the same software/website/tool in html/css/javascript on many different platforms, with monetization based on paying users and not ads.

The following related article was published on HN 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38858185

Another interesting parallel is the Calm Technology manifesto: https://calmtech.com.

Explosives in the 1800s are like rapid unscheduled refactoring today. Most programming issues can be solved with a careful application of the right amount of rapid refactoring at a precise point in space and time.

An intriguing hypothesis suggests the existence of an advanced civilization 12,000 years ago, who potentially lived on a continent now submerged due to cataclysmic flooding (detailed in the Altai Flood theory on Wikipedia). This speculative and unverified theory suggests that the survivors of this civilization dispersed globally, and influenced monumental architectural works, like the Pyramids or Göbekli Tepe, as a mean to saveguard their knowledge. There is an english website (https://builders-of-the-ancient-mysteries.com/about-bam/) and a french book and movie. This is a lot of speculation, but it is interesting to consider in the light of this article.

I love the concept and the demo! Amazing creative work

thanks!

Thanks! Are there any tacit threshold to qualify ?

Hello Peter,

Thank you for taking the time to provide insightful answers to our questions.

My question concerns EB-1 visas and greencards for extraordinary ability. The usual route to prove 'extraordinary ability' seems heavily skewed towards those with scientific publications under their belt. Would it be possible to qualify for a software engineer leaning towards tangible tech contributions, for example significant commits to open source projects and building online products with a decent user base ?

I understand better now, thanks!

What would this mean for let’s encrypt free certificates ? Would their root CA still be recognized in the EU?

thanks! I feel I understand better now the challenges. Using devices’ wifi would make more sense in this case.

Is it possible for mobile phones to directly exchange 4G/5G signals with each other, eliminating the need for conventional antennas and networks? 4G signals can cover distances between 2 to 4 miles (3 to 6.5 kilometers). Smartphones are probably the most spreaded pieces of hardware available to serve as p2p network nodes. Such a system would offer robustness and decentralization, especially in urban environments with high population density.

Awesome! It should even be cleaner than tap water with heavy metals and other contaminants removed by the evaporation. Just need to add some minerals back into it afterward.

He seems to have used the project as a conceptual experiment. In the "engine" folder's README, he mentions it's a work in progress but believes it might be useful someday.

I stumbled upon it while searching for a JavaScript state machine where one can define event pipelines triggered by rules or conditions applied to the state. I'd love to build web UIs using this approach in a performant manner.

Thanks for your replies.

Would it apply to a website like Wikipedia for example ?

Same here, what triggers me the most is also the « tech laws »: GDPR, cybersecurity resilience act threatening open source, The coming AI act possibly limiting innovation and concentrating them in the hands of existing giants instead of a decentralized ecosystem, as it begins to be the case in the rest of the world. I understand the thinking behind all those laws and they probably are born from good intentions. I feel like, in this case, Europe lacks some big tech lobbying pointing out the technical flaws (and yes I agree that with lobbying you do have to sort out the « pointing out the technical flaws » from the « pushing single interests forward »).

I feel like the main issue is the lack of diversity in browsers more than Chrome pushing forward the interests of its parent company. If we had more than a few browsers, the situation would be less precarious. I would go even further and say that the situation would be better if any developer could just build his own browser in a few weekends. Perhaps internet’s resilience and privacy resides in so many browsers that you cannot possibly control them all. If so, the main issue to solve would not be Chrome but the complexity and herculean task of writing software capable of running the complete web specification.

Perhaps the best vault is decentralized. We should all start burying QR code tablets in our gardens.

This was also my first thought.