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No problem.

It's still though the problem that investors were warning about at the AI Summit last year. The barrier to entry is now so low that they have almost stopped investing in AI coded products.

You've also got the customer flooded with "the new thing" and they don't have the skills to know what is any good.

I think I'm struggling because I'm technical and now trying to build something that will be larger than just me and so I'm hitting all new questions that I've never had to consider.

I'll obviously say that I have a killer product but it is just the same as all the rest!


Many people now can build simple products and I expect we will see a lot of small new apps in the nearest future. Quality is a different question, but for small apps AI can build it pretty well. But if you will try to build something bigger - AI which we have currently still cannot do that. Who knows what we will get in a year, bat barrier definnetely will become less and less. So what becomes really important (it was always important, but know becomes kind of critical to survive) is how to shape your idea, position it, find clients, advertise, etc. This is what we as progrummers typically didn'd do, we were thinking that our nice products will find a way to clients by themselvs.


I agree with you this lowering of barrier has made it so easy for everybody to create apps. The developer might not know what is good, but the customer surely decides so finally watch this is actually only the good ones. And also the art is not just developing right? it’s also about having that idea having that vision working towards positioning it and then marketing in a way that appeals to other users not just to the one who created it


:-)

Maybe that is still me being a control freak and pretending that it is me.

"I" can have anything written for me. The code will work and I can code review it or just make sure that my spec was implemented. My point is that instead of me potentially taking a year to put out half decent code, it can take weeks now, even with all the wrong turns these tools will give you.

That means that everyone is now putting out software and it all looks slick.


I always say that it is like an over-trusted employee that has the technical skills of an expert and the common sense of an intern who is afraid to clarify what you actually need.

Worse than that is that it will actively get round controls you've asked it to adhere to, if it thinks that is what it needs to do to be helpful.

We are walking into a disaster if we don't manage our usage properly.


Until the robots get good enough and cheap enough but then hopefully capitalism balances the market. After all, if everyone is out of work then either we have communism or companies cannot sell anything.


Really interested to understand how the AI keeps rebaselining back to the topic in hand and doesn't end up getting confused the more it has in its context window.

Did it just essentially create one big plan and spawn different agents to execute them, so acted as an orchestrator?

Even the orchestrator would have to detect when it is starting to stray off task and restart itself.


Probably part of the "secret sauce" in the harnesses and prompts developed by this lab to create their eventual marketable product.

But also, like, normal hierarchical memory management.


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