So basically nothing changes, Math was subject to gatekeeping and policing of the worst kind.

If you were not among the geniuses, and it didn't come to you automagically, you were simply supposed to leave it to the people who did get it and go do work for people of your intelligence. Smugness was too much to take.

Math people, like chess people never made any genuine attempt to help people understand the processes and methods that made math happen.

To me it should have been a field as teachable and ubiquitous as accounting.

The net result is once these methods and processes were worked out by AI, it was over for the human mathematicians.

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Im in India, ordered a bed from a carpenter, a week later he made a great a bed. He took pictures, and used some AI magic had it put it in more grand rooms. He posted it on his Instagram and Facebook feeds.

The next day when I went to him to have it delivered to my place, he showed me he had received lots of offers to make the same bed for other people and his order book was full for the next few months.

Until the robots actually arrive to do his work, AI in many way is going to a huge positive for him. Its going to be the same case for many many such people.

What you could do with Kotlin/Swift you can do with React Native as well.

This just feels like internal factions wanting their own teams, and owning their respective politics, than a discussion on Merit.

The tech got so advanced people kind of used the advanced tech, but looked pretty much like a how medieval society would. Even their politics.

This is already the case with most DevOps jobs with Claude Code. There are only that many finite issues that need fixing in production, even for very large systems.

So you don't need all that many people to run ops these days.

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The site was broken for eternity after that, but people continued to use it as it was the only source of real time news. In many ways its not the old Twitter at all.

Now the head counts dont even matter because its all agents writing the code, reviewing the code, and deploying the code.

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Most common people care for abundance and affluence. Any system that helps them arrive there is ok.

It was a mind bending experience, although I quit after a while as the programs were kind of glass sheet quality brittle as they grew.

Sometimes I feel I need to start again to keep my brain from losing thinking skills over time.

Obviously that's not possible by today's physics.

But lets say it was possible, by placing it some where space, how would one make it ?

Forgive my ignorance.

But what would it take to put a fist sized black hole in your room.

What sort of hardware are you using to run local models? And how do you use them?

That is possible inside the US. How do you do it all over the world? You have to convince every country in the world not use frontier models? Even worse how do you convince all the countries to not build their own models?

Are in you sending it to work in nested for loops? If yes, what sort of work would that be?

Absolutely!

I know some colleagues who are routinely spending thousands of dollars worth of tokens, I can't see to even max out the subscription limits even if Im working all the time. Curiously enough their output is lower too.

People who haven't used Perl to its full power have little how idea just how magical a language it was/is.

Have seen people's jaws on the floor watch Perl guys do automation they always thought was impossible, even more so delivered in such record times. CPAN itself as an idea was way ahead of its time.

Around COVID I had a project delivered, in a week. I basically wrote a Perl script that wrote Apache Pig scripts(Basically using Perl like a macro facility, and Perl is great at anything text). It was a massive project which otherwise would have taken more than a year to deliver. When I did show the team what I had done, had them in total awe in the same way people look at Claude Code today. Nevertheless it was the same reaction, when the project got done, they were not comfortable that some programmers could do stuff like this, which seemed alien to the remaining.

I have a belief that proliferation of Java/Python stunted the growth of web dev, and a lot other industries. In some way the last decade was entirely slowed down by adoption of these technologies. If Ruby/Perl were there things would have been way better.

I do love what LLMs are doing to Java and Python today.

Software development was never supposed to be as slow as what Python and Java made it.

When our team initially budgeted it, 4 guys over 6 months were enough to get this over the finishing line. The java team took over took more than 3 years, and close to 30 people. It was a AbstractClassFactoryFactorySingletonDispatcher mess with spring decorators all over. Which quite honestly was quite ironic because the original case against Perl was it was hard to read.

The java code was easily 30x more verbose, no body at the end knew how to maintain it. It was all about the guy getting to own his own team, promotions, bonuses, raises etc.

Have seen the same story repeat over and over again, everyone knew they wanted Python because they could get to inflate their headcounts.

Its one of things about tech, its not the good tech that wins, its the tech that helps with office politics wins at the end of they day.

After golang came along a lot of these java things too went out of fashion. Curiously enough golang does feel a lot perly to use. And Python has long moved away from its minimalism activism days. To that Python has transformed into the same feature bloat it once accused Perl of.