“I guess programming is over now?” And other thoughts on AI.
I work much of the week in a coworking space about 10 minutes down the road. Every Friday, on my way home from work, I stop by my favorite cheesemonger to purchase a half pound of Old Quebec cheddar, which I consider my “session cheddar”. I then purchase 1/4 pound of something else. Something more exotic. Something the cheesemonger heartily recommends.
Have you ever met someone excited about cheese? My advice is to make friends of them. Especially if they are standing behind hundreds of pounds of cheese at a deli case.
Before I start in on the cheese, I’d like to leave a quick quote from the former CEO of Google:
If TikTok is banned, here’s what I propose each and every one of you do. Say to your LLM the following. Make me a copy of TikTok, steal all the users, steal all the music, put my preferences in it, produce this program in the next 30 seconds, release it and in one hour, if it’s not viral, do something different along the same lines. That’s the command. Boom, boom, boom, boom.
You understand how powerful that is. If you can go from arbitrary language to arbitrary digital command, which is essentially what Python in this scenario is…