Amar Sood

With AI, We can dream bigger: when music, images, video and 3d assets are far easier then treat them as primitives. We can use these to create entire virtual worlds, games, software that incorporates these, and to incorporate creativity and media into infinitely more situations in real life. We can create massive installations that are not a single image but an endless video with endless music, and then our hand turns to stabilizing and styling and aestheticizing those exactly in line with our (the artist's) preferences. Romanticizing the idea that picking at a guitar is somehow 'more creative' than using a DAW to create incredibly complex and layered and beautiful music is the same thing that's happening here, even if the primitives seem 'scarier' and 'bigger'. Plus, there are many situations in life that would be made infinitely more human by the introduction of our collective work in designing our aesthetic and putting it into the world, and encoding it into models. Installations and physical spaces can absolutely be more beautiful if we can produce more, taking the aesthetic(s) that we've built so far and making them dynamic to spaces. Also for learning: as a young person learning to draw and sing and play music and so many other things, I would have tremendously appreciated the ability to generate and follow subtle, personalized generation - to take a photo of a scene in front of me and have the AI first sketch it loosely so that I can copy it, then escalate and escalate until I can do something bigger.

@paulg As someone who's been programming since I was 5, I read incredibly accurately and quickly and still prefer bullets because they're instantly scannable. Flash 10 bullets in front of me and I'll know roughly what they say in a fraction of a second -- prose takes a second or two.

The fact that AIs tend to answer you in bulleted lists tells us something important, though somewhat depressing: people can't read. They don't do this by accident. What you're seeing is an implicit portrait of the median user.

My laptop's built-in screen is now serving only to display the cart for its replacement.

@sumedha2199 Welcome to programming, folks :)

is it normal to vibecode till 3am every day and then wake up at 7am and speedrun all your tasks just so you can sit back down and vibecode till 3am again? cause 24 hours suddenly feel like nothing. i'm at the gym thinking about my laptop wtf.

Extremely small TAM tweet but those who have read Wheel of Time… Working with a fully unleashed set of AI agents is like trying to channel saidin.

A bunch of discussion recently about who builds product after engineers and PMs. I think what you want is people with long-held dream(s). Product dreams without execution clarity. Engineering ones, where they understand what they want the system to do but it's been too hard.

@Altimor Update: to be honest this kind "proactivity" in response to a @getlindy error is distinctly not cool. In this case it's an member of my team, but if it were a customer or investor, I would be right now apologizing for an e-mail I can't even see. Fireable for an assistant. 🥲

More of the thread so you can see that this is just the direction that the autonomy took in this instance. As I said above the not responding to the connect buttons is because I wasn't receiving those on iMessage. You only see them on the web. On iMessage all of those instances are places where I just saw nothing. Also on iMessage I can't actually see the message where it told me that it's going to email Sasha. So if I had switched back from web to iMessage I would have completely missed it and not even been able to apologize...

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@Altimor Ah, I see, it's because you guys connected your web chat interface to iMessage but the surface isn't complete, so if it hits a prompt that isn't implemented in iMessage-land, it freezes.

Programmers and PMs have always had to articulate things super clearly, but with the rise of agent and AI prompting, it'll be interesting to see what it does to people's quality of articulation. Explaining things in crisp (systems) terms is what you need to do better and better, and as people improve, we'll surely see it spill over into real life.

But I think that if classical software allowed you to barely outcompete others... new-school software should increasingly unlock the original dream that 'software will eat the world'. So new-school software will let you demolish other companies and people who cheap out.

The strongest argument that this won't happen is simply that people are cheap. So in the same vein as plastic widgets replacing handcrafted things people not wanting to pay for software and just using cheap lower quality stuff absolutely will likely happen in some places.

I'm desperately excited for the next generation of software. I think folks' low-hanging imagination is that it will be 'like today's but custom', but I think that will only last until we build a wholly more powerful generation of horizontal software.

@cremieuxrecueil Journalism? 😅

I would actually like a name for this. What should we call the phenomenon where someone uses quotation marks to falsely summarize someone's position? As an example, you might say "I like waffles" and someone will quote you saying "I hate pancakes".

@paulg Big HN thread on this post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462734…

@paulg At least one anecdote is that it might be as simple as the region of the training data: open.substack.com/pub/marcusolan… “ChatGPT writes like me”, says this Kenyan author.

Presumably ChatGPT is trained on corpora of things written by humans, and yet it doesn't sound like any human I know. Is there a population somewhere of people who write in chirpy bulleted lists that I've somehow managed to avoid?