Yeah same, at work and in my personal projects it’s been a real Cambrian explosion. It’s funny cause I don’t vibe with AI maximalists but the people I do vibe with all hate this thing without really knowing it.
I’ve always said 1910-1930 was the mechanical Cambrian explosion. We tried all kinds of ridiculous shit and the practical ideas evolved to stay. I can see AI going the same way.
Just last night I discovered that one of my little applications had a bug that was causing it to sometimes lose a bit of crucial data in a hard-to-notice way, seemingly at random. Probably some kind of race condition, super annoying to debug and figure out since each test run took ten minutes to try and the problem was probably nondeterministic anyway. So before I tucked in and started work myself I tossed it over to Jules with a brief description of what I was seeing happen sometimes. I told it to find and fix the bug if it could, and if it couldn’t then it should wire up the whole process with debug logging and excessive sanity-checking to help me figure it out.
By the time I’d finished setting up my first test run Jules had come back with “oh yeah, here it is. This two-line change fixes it.” And sure enough.
I’m a programmer of ~20 years experience, I could have found and fixed that myself. But it could have taken hours and I would have hated every minute of it. We invented compilers for similar reasons, I love throwing AI at stuff like this.
Yeah same, at work and in my personal projects it’s been a real Cambrian explosion. It’s funny cause I don’t vibe with AI maximalists but the people I do vibe with all hate this thing without really knowing it.
I’ve always said 1910-1930 was the mechanical Cambrian explosion. We tried all kinds of ridiculous shit and the practical ideas evolved to stay. I can see AI going the same way.
Just last night I discovered that one of my little applications had a bug that was causing it to sometimes lose a bit of crucial data in a hard-to-notice way, seemingly at random. Probably some kind of race condition, super annoying to debug and figure out since each test run took ten minutes to try and the problem was probably nondeterministic anyway. So before I tucked in and started work myself I tossed it over to Jules with a brief description of what I was seeing happen sometimes. I told it to find and fix the bug if it could, and if it couldn’t then it should wire up the whole process with debug logging and excessive sanity-checking to help me figure it out.
By the time I’d finished setting up my first test run Jules had come back with “oh yeah, here it is. This two-line change fixes it.” And sure enough.
I’m a programmer of ~20 years experience, I could have found and fixed that myself. But it could have taken hours and I would have hated every minute of it. We invented compilers for similar reasons, I love throwing AI at stuff like this.