Many developers use libraries effectively without knowing every time consideration of O(n) comes into play.

Competently implemented, in the right context, LLMs can be an effective form of abstraction.

I sometimes worry if they ever achieve their goal they might not be wise enough not to kill the golden goose.

Individual users will be priced out of frontier models if this becomes a trend.

Perhaps how quickly we become jaded should be taken as evidence of how quickly the world is changing right now.

When I looked at the examples they seemed like the kind of one off scripts, of limited complexity, that we’ve seen many times in the last year or so.

‘Ownership’ isn’t a property of the universe. It’s a value imposed by human society and philosophy. The physical reality you describe is true but irrelevant

I do entirely agree about software engineering being a lot less stressful though.

Having a part-time job as a welder for a private company would be awesome and no doubt useful in a variety of ways. However, he’s not only helping his countries technical industry as an individual contributor, he’s also running a small business and educating quite a few future welders

Many public-private partnerships between academia and industry, that were far better resourced, have a accomplished far less