Let me help you with a context where LLMs actually shine and is a blessing. I think it is also same with Karpathy who comes from research.

In any research, replicating paper is wildy difficult task. It takes 6-24 months of dedicated work across an entire team to replicate a good research paper.

Now, there is a reason why we want to do it. Sometimes the solution actually lies in the research. Most of research is experimental and garbage code anyway.

For each of us working in research, LLM is blessing because of rapid prototyping it provides.

Then there are research engineers whose role is to apply research to production code. We as research engineers really don't care about the popular library. As long as something does the job, we will just roll with it.

The reason is simple because there is nothing out there that solved the problem.

As we move further from research, the tools we build will find all sort of issues and we improve on them.

Idk about what people think about webdev, but this has been my perspective in SWE in general.

Most of the webdevs here who are coping with the fact that their react skill matters are quite delusional because they have never traversed the stack down to foundation. It doesn't matter how you render the document as long as you render it.

Every abstraction originates from research and some small proof of concept. You might reinvent abstraction, but when the cost of reinventing it is essentially zero then you are stilfing your own learning because you are choosing to exploit vs choosing to explore.

There is a balance and good engineers know it. Perhaps all of the people who ganged up on you never approached their work this way.

also saying majority and not all.

Thanks!

The fact that it's less developed seems like a burden to these people.

Local culture/food is a hassel.

For example, they want the breakfast to be same as in their country. Dinner and lunch to be the same.

Why is it like that?

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I understand research papers, I understand the code, but I can't replicate it in a week. It's very hard to replicate a paper even with source available. Then I read people praising blogs from someone who is barely getting started. It puts me in a situation where I question my whole existence. I do not know when and where I messed up. Am I just lazy? I am in front of a screen 12 hours a day. I am distracted. I have to work to meet my weekly quota. Focused work is 6-8 hours and remaining is unfocused work. It's very hard to get anything in life. Life feels so numb. AI is eating what I was skilled at. I started questioning if I ever learnt anything or just knew stuff.

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Where are we headed? This is a late night thought from where I live.

I saw a tweet earlier leading to: https://www.julian.ac/blog/2025/09/27/failing-to-understand-the-exponential-again/

Then from Scott: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9183

Then from Sohl-Dickstein: https://x.com/jaschasd/status/1972360405885637021

Seriously, to survive with high standard in low income country requires earning $2k/month. To save would require $4k/month.

With AI automating, the demands from low income country is service industry is most likely to be gone.

The unrest in SEA is in news everyday. This is a pattern emerging across different countries.

Immigration/Brain Drain to developed world exacerbated this condition.

I am genuinely interested in knowing where are we headed and what are we going to do?

What is the merit in being human?

What is the merit in all of this? Who is profiting? Humanity or the elites?

I am not considering jobs, or anything. Just wondering, what will the objective value of money be when this technology is realized in full effect.

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There is somewhere between 3 to 5 years of time left. This is maximum we can think of.

I see huge potential in 3D coming up.

Prediction: 2030 is when 3D blows up. Brush your graphics guys, we are going full spatial

Certain topics I am interested in post AGI world (the one where we are living); Mass wealth transfer to the billionaires at unprecedented speed; Lack of assets for middle class; death of middle class?

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> It could just as easily only help a select group of people and I'd argue that this is the most likely outcome

Currently it is only applicable to us who are programming!

Yeah, even if it gets away all the quirks, using it would still be better.

Most people don't learn to live, they live and learn. Sure learning is useful, but I am genuinely curious why people overhype it.

Imagine you being able to solve math olympiad and get a gold. Will it change your life in objectively better way?

Will you learning about the physics help you solve millennium problems?

These takes practices, there are lot of gatekeeping. The whole idea of learning is for wisdom not knowledge.

So maybe we differ in perspective. I just don't see the point when there are agents that can do it.

Being creative requires taking action. The learning these day is mere consumption of information.

Maybe this is me. But meh.

Why do we even bother to learn if AI is going to solve everything for us?

If the promised and fabled AGI is about to approach, what is the incentive or learning to deal with these small problems?

Could someone enlighten me? What is the value of knowledge work?

Even if there is no improvement in terms of quality, the speed alone will make it usable for a lot of downstream tasks.

It feels like ChatGPT3.5 moment to me.

Other than it I can see using this model. With that speed + agentic approach this model can really shine.

Highly doubt that. There is a veneer that breaks easily. Cultural norms forced these kind of respect, not something that comes from within. Western EU is a place where you "must" know language to get that respect. They are the ones who wants "immigrants" out of the country. Look into the votes, look into politics. Do not judge rather look into the sentiment. Live with the young population not the dying ones. See how young people treat you, then you will see the true sentiment. Not the "sentiments" online.

It is not hard to bring it out of the people. You just have to create a gullible and dumb looking character. People will start showing their colors.

Source: Left Western EU (after staying for 1/3rd of a decade) for one of these third world country because I couldn't withstand the fake people there. Yes, academia to everywhere. They exists. I asked most of the immigrants there and they share the same pain as I did. People-are-cold.

I hope this comes back ASAP.