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This!!! Thank you, couldn't have said it better. One of the best talks I've ever seen, and a huge inspiration for a lot of work I've done.

In OPs examples, what about privacy/IP concerns of your existing code base? When people for example mention copilot/cursor or any other auto completion tools or just chatgpt, do you happily let the models access your existing "company internal" code? Sure, no problem when you self-host, but I assume all these use cases talk about some external API? Are you even allowed to do that in most companies? As your IP basically leaves your machine at one point?

Bret Victor's vision was a major inspiration for my PhD research and thesis, mainly "Inventing on Principle" and "Ladder of Abstractions". The final concept and implementation that emerged is a sort-of "Interactive What-If-Machine" for 3D simulations -- however I'm afraid it's just another small step into the hopefully right direction:

"Interactive Analysis and Optimization of Digital Twins": https://doi.org/10.18154/RWTH-2022-07066

Direct link to PDF: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/849852/files/8498... (94 MB) Unfortunately it's in German, but there are many many illustrations and pictures, as well as some english quotes.

I am still amazed how some of Victor's very basic principles (e.e. "Show the data, show comparisons!", immediate feedback loops, ...) are always so essential/fruitful in generating amazing solutions to certain problems...

Aside from my work, I think Processing's "Tweak Mode" is another very good "real-life" example you might want to check out: See e.g. http://galsasson.com/tweakmode/