no. if we use that framing of yours, fp aim is to write a solution that flows like a river while imperative solution is like rolling up a ball of various solutions and then throwing it at the problem.
The point is the details of the implementation don't matter that much anymore. It's just something for the AI to work out — much like assembly code generation is for compilers.
Yes, it is awesome. Funny we got this level of capability now and we all take it in our stride. Growing up in the 80's I loved futuristic scifi, feels like I am in it now. And even I am 'just' taking it in my stride.
Speaking of the eighties, special effects were still done without CGI and typically on the cheap. That didn't make the movies and television series any less fun to watch. In the end it's about what people do with the tools, not the quality of the tools. People commenting on how these generated videos are not perfect or are getting some details wrong, look at some blockbuster movies from last century. It's very easy to spot the special effects. And it did not matter.
But yes 80s science fiction is now science fact. Talking cars like in night rider are now definitely a thing. Some can even drive themselves. The robots in Buck Rogers, Star Wars, etc. look clumsy and fake compared to the real humanoid bots we are now starting to see. More close to I Robot, which when it came out 22 years ago was pure science fiction.
> That didn't make the movies and television series any less fun to watch.
Unfortunately it doesn’t apply to everybody :( Babylon 5 was mind blowing when I was a kid, and today the space and other sci fi parts from there, when I see them on YouTube, are quite cringe. Show is still great, but that’s the part where I’d be totally fine if some modern consistent ai re-rendered cgi to something more pleasant.
What I am thinking is the way you make it 'keep going' and when you have people of the calibre of Tao doing it I kept thinking how many breakthroughs is he going to cause the LLM to find with his targetted questions :D Amazing that we have the privilege of witnessing a true expert in such a way question the LLM.
The whole Anthropic/US administration/Fable guardrails/overpricing situation has been so frustrating for me and disruptive that I am really an inch away from just removing Claude Code/Codex (or any other US LLM) from my daily use.
I wonder how many others are feeling like I do at this whole situation?
I feel same, but my company is affiliated with another US company, hence we can't start using Chinese models easily, unless we start hosting ourselves or run through time consuming procurement process to use hosted model providers
I am even tempted at this point to test Mistral, even though the signs say it lags behind quite far. I just wonder if that as a bottom bar is good enough.
Not very pro or anti BASIC but very pro your rationale, and love that you do what you do because it is fun and stimulating. I love reinventing wheels also, and, in fact, believe it is under appreciated just how useful it actually is. I'd encourage people to reinvent things for their own benefit, maybe you might end up building a better version of something, but more importantly you will possibly encourage, energise or inspire another to explore and learn.
This is potentially a inflection point for windows being the dominate OS. If Google, who now have Android working on desktop, and can market it well enough. Since half of the mobile users in world would be less afraid to try something they are familiar with on their phones.
> If Google, who now have Android working on desktop, and can market it well enough
Too little, too late.
Everyone's switching to Linux now, in droves. Microsoft have hit that Trust Thermocline[0] and that has made perfectly ordinary people like your parents or the guy you sometimes chat to in the pub or your plumber go "You know what, fuck it, I'm going to give this Linux thing a go", and they actually are doing that.
We're at a point now where most people do everything in a web browser, for better or worse, so the OS that your browser runs on is pretty much irrelevant. It's been that way for years, but it's taken Windows to get to a point where it's not just that people don't like it but they actively distrust it.
