Comment by blibble
2 months ago
love the article
slightly concerned tomorrow morning's top HN story will be karparthy telling us how dog-based LLM interfaces are the way of the future
and you'll be left behind if you don't get in now
(and then next week my boss will be demanding I do it)
The programming workspace of the future of the future will have three employees:
A man, a dog and an instance of Claude.
The dog writes the prompts for Claude, the man feeds the dog, and the dog stops the man from turning off the computer.
Thank you for the good laugh! This whole thread is peak satire. Although, be careful. It reminds me of the foreword to a shortstory someone shared on HN recently: „[…] Read it and laugh, because it is very funny, and at the moment it is satire. If you’re still around forty years from now, do the existing societal equivalent of reading it again, and you may find yourself laughing out of the other side of your mouth (remember mouths?). It will probably be much too conservative.“ — https://www.baen.com/Chapters/9781618249203/9781618249203___...
I for one welcome our furry overlords
You're right. They did it. The old man and dog joke has been realized, but the real answer of the future turned out to be: "the dog programs the game, and the man feeds the treat hopper."
That was funny. Gave me good laugh. Thanks..
Everybody and their dog will be doing it. Actually, the dog will be in charge. Dogs are loyal, enthusiastic, and require less office space. With their endless desire to play and to please, they will take over the game development industry.
In the meantime, the financial industry will be taken over by cats.
They also don't take 20 years to become smart like pesky resource-exhausting humans. I bet you could be up and running from a pup in 10-20 months.
I still can’t believe Altman said that. I mean I can, but still.
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>In the meantime, the financial industry will be taken over by cats.
Cats would certainly be less flummoxed by stock values suddenly plummeting; they may even enjoy knocking them over.
Beavers will control construction and infrastructure... building dams, bridges, and entire housing developments with zero corruption.
Please, be real.
There will be a Simon Wilison submission linking to his blog linking to karpathy xit. You know, the usual good stuff.
Have you any idea what you have just done? You have uttered his name and now he has been summoned. You have doomed us all.
I scrolled this thread fearing seeing that name and a SVG of a dog riding a bike
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CODEOWNERS will be replaced by the usual means of marking territory. Let's hope our laptops are liquid-proof.
Looking for the headline about "dogs replacing engineers"...
I’m not ok with robots replacing people but dogs replacing people? now you’ve got my attention
Basically the plot of "City" (1952) by Clifford D. Simak. Bloodthirsty humans are succeeded by a pacifist dog civilization.
this is a really funny comment. underrated.
Some dude vibe codes OpenPaw and gives credit to his XL Bully called Threadripper that would never hurt another person, gets acquired by OpenAI for 7 figures total comp purely on clout, and both simonw and Karpathy are calling it the next best development in AI because it draws penguins and industrialises slop while Sam Altman talks about the negative impact of human life compared to AI data centres while pleasuring Jony Ive in a coffee shop.
The world is not ready for BarkGPT.
CatGPT would be cool but when you really wanted to chat, it would just ignore you.
Management already got us all copilot licenses .. soon they will get us all a dog
This would definitely make me want to rejoin tech.
Management would get us all dogs and they would get cats for themselves ... like blofeld from James bond ...
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Haha, I got that impression too! I was ready to hate the article, but it was really well written and I loved the "decrypt my dog's keyboard smash"
I think we can all agree cat LLMs are the way of the future though.
This makes sense! Many people trust that the functions of a human worker are asking questions and clicking ok. What if AI become better so we just a dog?
The funniest thing here is that you think you will still have a boss next week. They can just hire the dog now!
Sounds like someone is at risk of being left behind in the “permanent underclass” sir!