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I’ve been very fascinated by the concept of a programming language designed for LLMs, both to that advantage of their strengths and to try and minimize their weaknesses.
Here’s a take I experimented with last year (feel very free to steal anything useful): https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether/tree/feature/v...
(Note: main has a version that was an ugly syntax, the branch in the link was for a prettier attempt)
Every developer I’ve seen use these tools has have engaged in a meaningful contribution: specific directions across multiple prompts, often (though not always) editing the code afterwards, manually running the code and promoting for changes, etc.
Until the courts, legislators, or the copyright office define something otherwise, I’m highly confident of my assertion. (Mostly because of the insane number of hours I’ve spent with counsel on this. And, as a disclaimer, since I am biased: I worked on Copilot and Google’s various AI assisted coding products as an SVP and VP.)
I’ve worked with ashtom for over a decade. He’s a coding machine - easily one of the most technical executives (who ships real production code.)
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether
This was completely vibe coded - I never had to edit the code, though it was very interactive. The whole thing tool less than a month of some evenings and weekends.
(Note: it’s ugly on purpose, as I’m playing with ideas around languages that LLMs would naturally be effective using.)
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/aether
Note: the syntax is ugly as a trade-off to make it explicit and unambiguous for LLMs to use.
For those who are interested, on the first Wednesday of each month, I write a blog post on our availability. Most recent one is here: https://github.blog/2021-03-03-github-availability-report-fe...
We are looking at what we can do to make the SPA + mobile workflow super easy, though. Stay tuned on this. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to me as I'd love to ask you some more questions.
We've gone out of our way to make sure everything in the product is accessible via our REST API, and we also have a CLI you can install from npm.
Feel free to reach out to me and we could discuss your scenarios in more detail. There are other tools that may fit your scenario better.
Microsoft is very serious about creating amazing developer tool across any app, platform, and language for a variety of reasons. Making Azure the most productive place to power your app is part of it, of course. But, in the long run, the easier we make development, the more the world benefits.
We offer a full REST API and webhooks, so this also something you could cook up as an extension to the product in the meantime.
We are very proud of what we've built here. Regardless of how you built your app (Swift, Java, React Native, Xamarin), we offer CI, releasing to your beta users and the app stores, Crash reporting, analytics, and even push messaging. Let us know your thoughts!
Azure provides services for powering application and services (including compute, containers, storage, databases.)
App Center is focused on many of the lifecycle services (like CI, Crash reporting, distributing to beta testers and stores, etc).
App Center isn't part of the Visual Studio IDE. It's a Web-hosted service for app developers providing CI/CD, testing, and many other services.
The Testing service supports iOS and Android apps written in any language or platform.
>>I stopped putting money into the stock market since a while ago
These two statements are in conflict with one another. You are literally timing the market by not investing anymore. Just invest every month and you will be much better off.
After the 409a valuation of the startup gets too high, this option becomes much harder for employees, which is why you don't generally see it outside of the earliest stages.
In the meantime, if you have time, could you elaborate on: "All tasks which require intelligence to be solved can naturally be formulated as a maximization of some expected utility in the framework of agents."
Is this proven in the paper, or assumed true outside of it?
Two thoughts here: 1) What specifically do you mean by "wave of accomplishment"? How should that be measured?
2) You will need to cite some proof of this assertion. I can think of many anecdotes of successful people (J.K. Rowling, for instance) who achieved success while on welfare.
>>Modern Western societies are rich enough that smart, motivated individuals can mostly rise to the level of their own ability.
Not sure this true, but I'd like to see any data you have on this point as well. As it stands, social and economic mobility is limited by birth, see http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/reports/20...