i would watch this parody on sora
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Just brainstorming.
The words I'm using are the best I currently have to describe ideas that have always existed. It's not like a new messiah or philosopher came about with this novelty. It's something innate to all who possess the creative mind. And this is the root of maybe what I'm talking about (I'm still a student to all of this); every human possesses the ability to create.
Is it chemical? Is it God? Is it Tinkerbell's magical dandruff sprinkling into my head? Maybe it's both chemical and God. Maybe all of the above. How it happens is still up for debate, sure. But let me segue for a moment.
If you follow the progress of AI (I'm assuming you must), there is an ongoing debate of AGI/Superintelligence. OpenAI, Google, et al are promising their abilities to invent new medicine or invent some new art form. They will be novelty generators. I feel quite skeptical of this.
Right now, LLMs are incapable of novelty -- ie, it can only compose existing ideas, it cannot invent some new genre of music or new style of art. If it appears new it's only because that's what it was taught and it's more remixing. And sure, there's argument to be made that remixing is a form of creativity. However, it is not the decider of what is creative or not. The human on the other end prompting it makes that decision. THAT is an act of creativity.
Again, arguments to be made that if all it takes is an observer and a set of criteria then that must mean the AI agent we designed to generate and select images for some marketing campaign must be sentient right?
Maybe. Maybe not. As far as I know, these models do not have an internal motivation. They don't spend time replying to other people on forums with their perspective for.. who knows what reason. And if they do, it's because they have a programmed directive to do so.
The human is the one with an internal universe that span the colorful spectrum of experiences that is referred to as "qualia". Our experiences shape us and the world that we know. Our decisions are based on these experiences. Of course, I'm not deluded that the reality of the world we live in doesn't have have constraints: hunger, loneliness, desire, etc. We needed primal instincts to survive.
But once those needs are met, who are you now? Just a series of chemical reactions? Repeating that survival loop? This is where the ethereal comes in.
> I've never seen "ether," and nobody's ever found a structure in the human body that interfaces with it.
Many humans have been interfacing with the "ether" for thousands of years. You interface with it when you practice creativity. Many musicians talk of how sometimes a song just appears to them. I'm sure you'll find ways of explaining this way, but in my opinion, there's a deeper mechanism that we're unaware of or aren't ready to know yet.
TL;DR - practice creativity.
Think about the world you see and live in. Someone created the monitor you're looking at that you're reading my comment. Someone created the keyboard you're working on. Someone created the machines to manufacture these things. And so on.
It started with a concept, an idea. It didn't just appear. We, as humans, have the ability to collapse (hint hint, quantum physics) from the ethereal to the physical world the thoughts we have. This applies to everything. What our decisions are. Should I eat McDonalds today or have fish and salad?
We are, in a sense, wizards in this world. We create what we focus our mind on. Where we direct our focus and our intent we can see desired outcome. If your desire is to make a billion dollars, no one is stopping you. You are the only obstacle.
What I'm saying won't resonate with a lot of people, but in my experience, this message isn't for everyone. I'm a software engineer who has learned to appreciate the spiritual world as much as I appreciate the science. The two can live in harmony (as it used to, read about Tesla and Newton's metaphysical works -- they were manifestors as well).
This was a little all over the place, but it's meant to be a sampler platter of metaphysical ideas.
There are a lot of people like myself who have been following every product/research that comes out watching and using the tools that are coming out at rapid pace.
At a certain point you feel the trajectory and the promise of AGI and ASI does not seem that far away. The conversation about AI isn't hype, it's a genuine concern that people are not taking seriously. This tech is bigger than the average mainstream newstream is making it out to be.
I built an entire MMO this past weekend with a friend using AI. If you are still one of those people going "it's not there yet" you are sleepy. And I get it, it's a lot. But I would strongly encourage you to see what's out there before scoffing.
I _was_ of the competitive mindset years ago, but I'm finding life is a lot more pleasant if I don't force things and go with what is working and leave behind what doesn't. What I leave behind could include working a good job that pays well to pursue other things life has to offer.
The problem is Sam Altman saw this coming a long time ago and is an investor (co-owner?) of this project.
I believe we will see a world where things are a lot more agentic and where applicable, a human will need to be verified for certain operations.
If you're a CEO of a giant AI corp you're currently racing for superintelligence (meta-bubble).
The rest of us apes are flinging AI slop at each other until we've saturated each other in AI slop.
I don't really know what will happen, just offering my observation (ape noises)
Will be trying Kiro, excited to see how you approached implementing a similar idea!
With all the talk of "LLMs aren't there yet" and the latest buzzword "context engineering" I thought now would be a good a time as any to show this tool I've been working on.
Problem: Bad specs and laziness can get in the way of both the AI coding agent and the developer being in sync on what to build.
Solution: SpecLinter aims to manage your codebase's context by understanding your architecture and producing testable features by leveraging Gherkin.
IMO, the most powerful piece of this whole AI development workflow is describing what you want using Gherkin's Behavioral Driven Design system.
Please give it a shot and let me know if SpecLinter helps bridge any of the gaps in AI development for you. Open to feedback!
I constantly hear developers who have tried AI saying "it's not there yet" when discussing leaning on AI for code. This is a workflow I've developed over the past 2-3 years and now it's formalized into a little project called: Wrinkl.
It's a tiny CLI + folder convention that:
scaffolds a .ai/ directory inside your repo (wrinkl init)
lets you spin up “feature ledgers” (wrinkl feature user-auth) where you jot down intent, edge cases, test plans, etc.
snapshots lean context files you can paste (or soon auto-feed) into your LLM so it stays grounded
adds a simple archive command when the feature ships, so your context window stays small
Repo: https://github.com/orangebread/wrinkl (MIT)
Open to feedback and discussion!
Before I continue, I just want to say that I LOVE working with AI. I use it for everything. Naturally, I began to wonder about the nature of intelligence. This led me to sentience. And of course you begin to reference the bodies of scifi work addressing consciousness and machine sentience.
I think for AGI to be a thing, it would need to not only need to be this massive multi modal machine, but also a machine with self-motivation. I think this is the key. Right now all AI requires input from a human to even do anything. It requires instructions (prompts).
When AI begins to self-prompt because it has its own desires outside of a human catalyzing it, and not only that, it speaks about its experiences as an AI -- I will then say that is probably AGI. But if we reach that point, we are in deeper ethical territories of do we get to "own" this sentient machine?
But I'm also an experienced developer and at this point, an experienced "vibe coder". I use that last term loosely because I have a structured set of rules I have AI follow.
To really understand AI's capability you have to have experienced it in a meaningful way with managed expectations. It's not going to nail what you want right away. This is also why I spend a lot of time up front to design my features before implementing.
Sure, I'll get it done... eventually. But no amount of gamification will motivate me to put this much effort into habitual cleaning. I hope the author's strategy helps someone, but it assumes you have the motivation but not the methodology.
It's kind of like sure, I could manage my own emails, or I could offset this to someone who does it better. If you do it better and it's affordable, I'm in.
We are on that starship to the future right now and I love it.
Right now your typical interaction in chat is limited with some exceptions of out of box tooling that most current platforms provide: file attachment, web search, etc.
MCP is a way to extend this toolbox, but the cooler thing is AI will be able to determine _at inference time_ what tools to use to fulfill the user's prompt.
Hope this helped!
If you've been using LLMs effectively to build agents or AI-driven workflows you understand the true power of what these models can do. So in some ways the author is being a little selective with his confirmation bias.
I promise you that if you do your due diligence in exploring the horizon of what LLMs can do you will understand what I'm saying. If ya'll want a more detailed post I can get into the AI systems I have been building. Don't sleep on AI.
If we don't want to live in a world where these incredibly powerful technologies are leveraged for nefarious purposes there needs to be emotional maturity and growth amongst humanity. Those who are able to make these growths need to hold the irresponsible ones accountable (with empathy).
The promise of AI is that these incredibly powerful technologies will be disseminated to the masses and Open AI know this is the next step and it's why they're trying to keep a grip on their market share. With the advent of nVidia's project digits and powerful open source models like deepseek, it's very clear how this trajectory will go.
Just wanted to add some of this to the convo. Cheers.
Was a hardcore Microsoft shop C# .NET dev. Going full NodeJS/Javascript dev now and learning design and UX (very therapeutic, like a coloring book).