Manan
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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)
We want to encourage local development and experimentation with the Agent SDK and claude -p. If you’re building a business on top of the Agent SDK, you should use an API key instead. We’ll make sure that’s clearer in our docs.
NVIDIA’s CEO says OpenClaw did in 3 weeks what Linux took 30 years to achieve "OpenClaw is probably the single most important software release ever. If you look at its adoption, Linux took some 30 years to reach this level. OpenClaw, in what is it, 3 weeks, has now surpassed Linux. It is now the single most downloaded open-source software in history, and it took just 3 weeks."
“You're just a groundsman nothing beyond that” Gautam Gambhir has well and truly lost his head. 🥴 #ENGvIND
All benchmarks now confirm it: Deepseek is truly is as good as OpenAI's o1 (which is top of the range) for 3% of the price. Boom. And that's when you want to pay for the API. You can also use it Open Source for "free" (which you can't do with o1). There's no overstating how profoundly this changes the whole game. And not only with regards to AI, it's also a massive indictment of the US's misguided attempt to stop China's technological development, without which Deepseek may not have been possible (as the saying goes, necessity is the mother of inventions).
