Anthony Gore

The fact that DJs are bigger than ever, yet their job can easily be automated tells you a great deal about how AI will work in practice in the real world

@AlanRMacLeod This is literally a boat. The economic system can't be determined from this alone.

This is literally capitalism.

It's crazy how AI is really good at the stuff I don't know anything about and total dog shit at the stuff I do.

@kamathematic "non-trivial" = hard

just landed in sf? “update your priors” = update your world view “orthogonal” = analogous “isomorphic” = in no way similar “overfit” = overdressed “steelman” = devil’s advocate

Why don’t more people use AI to pressure-test their political arguments? ChatGPT may be the most rational, well-informed interlocutor most of us will ever encounter.

@TheStalwart “The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.” Neil Degrasse Tyson

I still don’t get extreme multidimensional space. How could there be more than three dimensions. Ok time. Fine that’s four. But more than that? Come on.

@zoecabina This is disingenuous. You're sorting alphabetically and have just scrolled past Tony Abbott. I have a lot of the same concerns as you but tactics like this are not where it's at.

First page of the 2026 Sydney Writers Festival Program What a surprise

“Make the models cheap to use” “Great, they all forgot how to code” “Now 10x the price”

Not to brag but Claude thinks my questions are sharp and get to the heart of the topic

@itsme_urstruly And it never disappoints!

One of my favorite human traits is when someone sees the moon and immediately feels the need to tell someone else to go look at it.

POV: Senior Agentic Engineer

@ded__kat Nothing tops Spiros Agnew

Peter Thiel being an anagram for The Reptile is crazy

@Larryjamieson_ If there truly aren't any jobs, it'll be welfare. Corporations always seek to maximize profit and if that means agreeing to higher taxes to allow welfare to expand then they will.

Where do profits come from if everyone is unemployed?

@DrSuneelDhand Its counter intuitive, but corporations may seek increased taxes to expand welfare if thats what the profit-maximizing strategy is for them.

Nobody has yet been able to answer the question: If AI is going to cause mass unemployment and lack of income, then who is going to buy all of the stuff that is produced in the consumer economy? If nobody is there to buy anything, how will any corporations make money?

AI coding is far more productive for building projects than for maintaining them. You can get 100x productivity increase on the former, but maybe only 1-2x on the latter. I wonder what the implications of that are?

It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December and basically work since - the models have significantly higher quality, long-term coherence and tenacity and they can power through large and long tasks, well past enough that it is extremely disruptive to the default programming workflow. Just to give an example, over the weekend I was building a local video analysis dashboard for the cameras of my home so I wrote: “Here is the local IP and username/password of my DGX Spark. Log in, set up ssh keys, set up vLLM, download and bench Qwen3-VL, set up a server endpoint to inference videos, a basic web ui dashboard, test everything, set it up with systemd, record memory notes for yourself and write up a markdown report for me”. The agent went off for ~30 minutes, ran into multiple issues, researched solutions online, resolved them one by one, wrote the code, tested it, debugged it, set up the services, and came back with the report and it was just done. I didn’t touch anything. All of this could easily have been a weekend project just 3 months ago but today it’s something you kick off and forget about for 30 minutes. As a result, programming is becoming unrecognizable. You’re not typing computer code into an editor like the way things were since computers were invented, that era is over. You're spinning up AI agents, giving them tasks *in English* and managing and reviewing their work in parallel. The biggest prize is in figuring out how you can keep ascending the layers of abstraction to set up long-running orchestrator Claws with all of the right tools, memory and instructions that productively manage multiple parallel Code instances for you. The leverage achievable via top tier "agentic engineering" feels very high right now. It’s not perfect, it needs high-level direction, judgement, taste, oversight, iteration and hints and ideas. It works a lot better in some scenarios than others (e.g. especially for tasks that are well-specified and where you can verify/test functionality). The key is to build intuition to decompose the task just right to hand off the parts that work and help out around the edges. But imo, this is nowhere near "business as usual" time in software.

What gives better results: Vague specs + a feedback loop, or, Thorough specs with no feedback loop?

No, I get it. When technology creates a tool that provides something in abundance, the opportunity for humans providing that service collapses. Unemployment in that category skyrockets. Obviously. Take photography. From 2010 to today, the penetration and capability of smartphone cameras exploded. In 2010, to get a really good photograph--say a portrait of your family--you basically had to either be a photography nerd or hire a professional. Now, the iphone has literal Portrait Mode. Anyone can do the work of a professional. No surprise: the number of professionally employed photographers in the US is... [checks notes] ...up 34% over the past 15 years.

“You’re about to have 100x more competitors because of AI” People cloned my app even when there was no AI. Half-assed attempts by non-serious people trying to make a quick buck, that then faded into obscurity. I imagine vibe-coded competitors to be of the same tenacity.