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Less than a year to destroy Arc-AGI-2 - wow.

So not disagreeing as you say, it is a personal thing!

I honestly find coding with AI no easier than coding directly, it certainly does not feel like AI is doing my work for me. If it was I wouldn't have anything to do, in reality I spend my time thinking about much higher level abstractions, but of course this is a very personal thing too.

I myself have never thought of code as being my output, I've always enjoyed solving problems, and solutions have always been my output. It's just that before I had to write the code for the solutions. Now I solve the problems and the AI makes it into code.

I think that this probably the dividing line, some people enjoy working with tools (code, unix commands, editors), some people enjoy just solving the problems. Both of course are perfectly valid, but they do create a divide when looking at AI.

Of course when AI starts solving all problems, I will have a very different feeling :-)

End of the World? Must be Tuesday.

But you're not Everyone - they are a fictional hacker collective from a TV show.

I suppose the question is "Do you feel Steve Jobs made the iPhone?"

Not saying right/wrong but it's a useful Rorschach Test - about what you feel defines 'making this'?

You switch difficulties, like you do in a game. Play on Hard or Survival mode now. Build greater and more amazing things than you ever did before.

We have never, ever, written what the machine executes, even assembly is an abstraction, even in a hex editor. So we all settle for the level of abstraction we like to work at. When we started (those of our age) most of us were assembly (or BASIC) programmers and over time we either increased our level of abstraction or didn't. If you went from assembly -> C -> Java/Python you moved up levels of abstraction. We're not writing in Python or C now, we are writing in natural language and that is compiled to our programming languages. It's just the compiler is still a bit buggy and opinionated!! And yes for some low level coding you still want to check the assembly language, some things need that level of attention.

I learn more in a day coding with AI than I would in a month without it, it's a wonderful two-way exchange, I suggest directions, it teaches me new libraries or techniques that might solve the problem. I lookup those solutions and learn more about my problem space. I feel more like a university student some days than a programmer.

Eventually this will probably be the end of coding and even analytical work. But I think that part is still far off (and possibly longer than we'll still be working for) in the meantime actually this for me is as exciting as the early days of home computing. It won't be fun for ever, the Internet was the coolest thing ever, until it wasn't, but doesn't mean we can't enjoy the summer while it's summer.

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But the toxicity levels I find to be lower - definitely not zero, but much lower than the actual social media where the toxic content is actively prioritised.

YT: Yep the only pay-for-no-adds that I gave in to.

If you can avoid reading too many comments I find it to be fine, I too have ditched all social media except YouTube and HN. I find YT doesn't pester me with toxic content, and HN you kind of just gotta read a few comments only :-)

Great, perfect, bought it.

Really good, clean and to the point, love it.

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That shouldn't be downvoted. Their pivot from model -> product company is one to watch with admiration and dread in equal measure.

Be nice to have AI integration for natural language: (i.e. 'show the character running and looking away from camera')

I kid you not - this was part of a friends kid's school notebook, this is it pinned to their staff noticeboard. My favourite is Sr/Oldmum

Love it!

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I've been playing around with this and it's a great idea. We need tools geared towards agentic development flows. I don't find my existing tool suits my flow at all. I have a feature request list an arm long of course!

I came across this today, I really like how it works with my typical workflow and I think it needs more visibility.

So Sam has found a way to pay himself.

We could have had a Pope Bob, missed opportunity.

this!

lots of hasattr("") rubbish, I've increased the amount of prompting but it still does this - basically it defers it's lack of compile time knowledge to runtime 'let's hope for the best, and see what happens!'

Trying to teach it FAIL FAST is an uphill struggle.

Oh and yes, returning mock objects if something goes wrong is a favourite.

It truly is an Idiot Savant - but still amazingly productive.

Well done, just tested on Claude Desktop and it worked smoothly and a lot less clunky than playwright. This is the right direction to go in.

I don't know if you've done it already, but it would be great to pause automation when you detect a captcha on the page and then notify the user that the automation needs attention. Playwright keeps trying to plough through captchas.

Now that's a headline that you don't want to type wrong.

Not sure why that was downvoted TBH, seems accurate to me.

I guess they'll roll that out (pun intended) eventually ...

I'm wondering if they are ever actually going to go live (i.e. paid for and reasonable limits), we've been waiting since June!

Hi I've been playing around with this idea over the last few weeks, the site is still buggy as heck but I'm really interested whether anyone would find this concept fun or useful.