Chayanka_42
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@42_gravity
PhD @ CHEP, IISc | Non-perturbative QFT • Tensor Networks • Quantum Simulation of Field Theories | BSMS IISER Pune | The answer is 42... working on the Q
Chamath on how AI agents are making the "10x engineer" distinction disappear because the most efficient "code paths" are now obvious to everyone. Just as AI solved chess and removed the mystery of the best move, AI is doing the same for coding, making the process reductive and removing technical differentiation. "I'm going to say something controversial: I don't think developers anymore have good judgment. Developers get to the answer, or they don't get to the answer, and that's what agents have done. The 10x engineer used to have better judgment than the 1x engineer, but by making everybody a 10x engineer, you're taking judgment away. You're taking code paths that are now obvious and making them available to everybody. It's effectively like what happened in chess: an AI created a solver so everybody understood the most efficient path in every single spot to do the most EV-positive (expected value positive) thing. Coding is very similar in that way; you can reduce it and view it very reductively, so there is no differentiation in code." --- From @theallinpod YT channel (link in comment)
Great to hear that quantum information pioneers Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard were awarded the Turing Award (essentially the Nobel of computer science)! What are your favourite papers by Bennett & Brassard? Let me know in the thread ⬇️ ✍
Claude can now build interactive charts and diagrams, directly in the chat. Available today in beta on all plans, including free. Try it out: claude.ai
At Physical Superintelligence PBC ("PSI"), the startup I cofounded with @alexwg, we like shipping, not hyping. So here’s the world's first agentic copilot built by physicists, for physicists. What started as an internal tool, we're now releasing open-source: Get Physics Done.
