Then again, the keyboard on this thing is ass. They have a bigger version with a proper keyboard (though it probably also sucks), I don't know if folks have hacked that one of if it is hackable in the same way. I would kind of assume it is, though.

Whether we like that is not the question I was answering.

There have obviously been smart people involved in making this stuff happen, but more and more I'm convinced most of these new AI billionaires were just in the right place at the right time. They raised money better and faster than anyone else, played faster and looser with copyright violations, and that's pretty much how we got here.

The computers are doing math. It's not even complicated math, there's just a lot of it. It's amazing that the math results in what it does, but you would think the guys running the machines that turn electricity into software would understand it enough to not think there's a real live boy in there.

There may come a time, but it's silly to mistake the LLMs automaton behavior for consciousness.

And, I did that kind of thing sometimes, though I was a kid and still liked to win, I doubt I used any truly suicidal setups.

So, they can sketch without looking at it, and models without vision capability can also do it. But, I've been tinkering with claude-paint this evening, and you can see it improving over time as it draws, looks at it, draws some more. It's impressive, and it somehow mostly avoids the uncanny valley at least some of the time, which direct image models consistently still fail to do, IMHO (though lots of people on facebook are falling for it, so it obviously isn't uncanny to them).

Sure, I'll go back and tell my 12 year old self to do that.

But, actually, I did do that, to some degree. As I mentioned, I would drop hints and talk about my strategies in games, usually after the game, so he could be more competitive and understand how I was thinking about things. That also has a cost on the fun for both parties, though. Smart people can recognize when you're going easy on them. Nobody normal likes being pandered to.

And, I'm also working on a game that kind of pulls on that same kind of upfront planning, where how you place your pieces to start is as important as how you move them; a settling and strategy game that's heavy on clever defense and using terrain and the interplay of pieces.

Too bad I never played against an AI before they cracked it.

There are billions of lines of C++ code in production use. That doesn't disappear overnight, and I've never said it would or even suggested it would disappear overnight. But, the relevance of C++ for the average developer seems likely to never be higher than is it today, and the amount of code written in C++ vs. safer languages, seems likely to decline.

You're arguing with a different assertion than the one I've made.

I can't parse this into meaning anything:

"Reliable TypeScript for the AI era

Build production-ready systems your team can ship, customers can depend on, and AI agents can work with."

OK, it's written in TypeScript, I guess. Is it a library? What does it do?

I'm also skeptical that LLMs can ever invent new ideas.

I may be wrong about how soon the curve will flatten, and I may be wrong about LLMs fundamental limitations. But, I don't think it's extremely obvious that LLMs can have novel ideas or can grow into having novel ideas.