bilater

https://www.hackyexperiments.com/blog/machines-of-loving-emb...

At the same time, I agree with the original comment as well. I don't think this necessarily leads to some doomsday scenario. Whatever happens it'll likely be better for us and imo we will merge with the AIs at some point, so it won't be a question of us vs them.

But when you can literally generate a whole codebase in a few hours, a lot of these assumptions don’t hold up. That doesn’t mean you don’t need sound logic and maintainability. But a lot of the small things you think would go wrong because of a bloated codebase stop being meaningful objections when you can keep generating, testing, and reworking it until those issues are resolved.

A lot of what we consider good engineering judgment is shaped by the constraints we’ve always worked under. I don’t think people appreciate how much of that changes when those constraints go away. The "slop" problem is ultimately a verification and testability problem.

Flexbox, CSS Grid, etc. are mostly abstractions that make low-level DOM/layout control tractable for humans. But from first principles, an agent doesn’t really care whether the interface is elegant. If it can reliably manipulate the underlying system directly and verify the rendered output, it can just write whatever low-level code gets the pixels where they need to go.

So I don’t really buy that there’s some big missing abstraction layer left to invent for AI here. Once the agent can control and verify the underlying output, better human-facing wrappers mostly stop mattering.

Not talking about design trends, just the mechanics of producing the UI.

It's sad. But rather than fight it, we should be thinking about what communities we form next, in a world where knowing flexbox tricks isn't a flex.

The only way is through. Most of are not going to be living the suffocating life you think we should. We will grow, innovate and accelerate out of this.

Would be an interesting world where we all live in chambers connected to the cloud. Would take care of overcrowded city problems with everyone trying to move to one place and driving up the cost of living. You can live on a farm in Ohio and have the New York experience.

You could be born in a poor country who's values you do not align with and become a citizen of one (hosted on a discord server) that feels like home.

Tech is beautiful. The ugly parts are just a midwit problem you falsely ascribe to runaway capitalism, other bogeymen, ludditism, a false shiny view of the past and projection of whatever thing isn't quite working out for you (your job, your relationship etc).

The irony is the best place to complain about it is on the internet.

Ya'll are not ready for AI to just keep getting better and better. The slop-midwit-doomerism you are being fed as part of some last ditch copium that your SE identity matters and is going to be needed prevents you from seeing what is inevitable. You can't beat em. Try joining em.

Perhaps the only way forward will be if we figure out how to merge with the AIs so we can keep up. Otherwise, a soma-filled world likely awaits. And unlike Brave New World, I think it might actually be a lot more pleasant, but still one with a different set of tradeoffs.