There Was Time Now
blog.bawolf.comThe kind of work we were "geared up to do" was what the industry was paying for at the time. For a very long time the industry has paid for trivia experts. If you were gluing together libraries and microservices, you resonate with the author. Not all "code" is the same, nor "programming."
I don't agree. For example, I think they're very good at writing physics simulators, they're great at writing shaders, they seem to have done a good job formally verifying the signal protocol[1].
That's not all code, to be sure but it's not what I've ever heard talked about as pipe fitting.
But aside from that, I think there are lots of things that made people's lives better and are now irrelevant, and people enjoyed that time. It's gone now, and we'll adapt. But it felt worth capturing the feeling.
[1]https://deepmind.google/blog/introducing-alphaproof-code/
I have a blog post on this drafted but not published. But the gist of it is, what gets more valuable when code gets cheaper?
That's what I'd focus on for a career or business, because code is getting darn cheap.
More general: what remains / becomes valuable as "thinking power" (+creativity) becomes cheaper & cheaper?
Shared human experience :)
Yeah, this. 100%. When the time cost of coding, creating, $anything approaches zero then taste becomes art. [0]
It's not just code, it's "intelligence." Everybody has it now.
That was a good episode. I miss these spooky anthologies (Twilight Zone, The Night Gallery, etc...)
Before AI, chop wood, carry water. After AI, chop wood, carry water.
There is a fifteen hundred and thirty sixth dimension beyond that which is known to man.
It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge.
This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the the embedding space.