Comment by troupo
10 hours ago
> The thing is, agents aren’t going away. So if Bob can do things with agents, he can do things.
Can he? If he outsources all his thinking and understanding to agents, can he then fix things he doesn't know how to fix without agents?
Any skill is practice first and foremost. If Bob has had no practice, what then?
My point is it doesn’t matter whether he can fix things without agents. The real world isn’t an exam hall where your boss tells you “no naughty AI!”, you just get stuff done, and if Bob can do that with agents, nobody cares how he did it.
But can Bob actually do that with agents, without limit? Right now, he's going to hit a ceiling at some point, and the Alices of the world will run circles around him.
The question is: will agents improve to the point that even the most capable Alices will never be needed to solve problems? Maybe? Maybe not? I'm worried that they won't improve to that degree.
And even if they do, what is the purpose of humans in this world?
I think the real issue is that no, he can't, but corporate and government entities that decide won't care. Things will simply get worse. The problems will be left to fester as things that simply "can't be done".
> The real world isn’t an exam hall where your boss tells you “no naughty AI!”, you just get stuff done, and if Bob can do that with agents, nobody cares.
Indeed. That's why Anthropic had to hire real engineers to make sure their vibe-coded shit doesn't consume 68GB of RAM. Because real world: https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987
If your job has been totally unaffected by AI, then I am jealous.
I’m not trying to argue that AI can do everything today. I acknowledge that there are many things that it is not good at.
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Anthropic is still getting weekly memory leak reports with memory leaking at a rate of 61GB/h and all of them are getting closed automatically as duplicates.
I personally haven't tried Claude Code because I can't install it on my PC. I'm starting to get the impression that they banned non Claude products from using their subscription, because their products are of such a poor quality that everyone is fleeing from them.