Comment by weakfish

8 days ago

Because I’ve been told that Fable can do anything :-)

My question is moreso “why was it ever JS in the first place”

& the cost of a native rewrite would be cheaper than acquiring Bun no matter how you shake it

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jm4  8 days ago

Probably because it consumes the same APIs originally developed for a web app and the same front end engineers likely created Claude Code. People assume Anthropic set out to create Code as a product and went through a normal design phase. I think it’s more likely it started as an internal tool or someone’s side project and blew up as a product when they released it to the public.

  • w4der  8 days ago

    But isn't the point of an API that it abstracts away the language(s) in which your application is written?

AndrewKemendo  8 days ago

>Because I’ve been told that Fable can do anything

I hear some version of this anecdote constantly

yet despite using all these prompting tools since 2019 I have never once heard a lab or professional say “x model can do anything”

Can you provide me whatever specific source you heard for this?

  • coldtea  8 days ago

    >I have never once heard a lab or professional say “x model can do anything”

    Yeah, they "merely" say that they're about to break the singularity in a couple of years, that it's too capable to be safe to release, that it's going to take 50% (or all, depening on the day and audience) of programmers out of work, that it's smarter than Nobel prize winners, that their programmers don't write anything themselves anymore, and things to that effect.

    • AndrewKemendo  8 days ago

      Who is “they?”

      Again… provide me a quote from someone doing this every day that says: “they're about to break the singularity in a couple of years”

      The only people saying this stuff are random Internet commenters, breathless reporters and reactionaries.

      The only person on record for a statement like this was Geoff Hinton about radiologists and he has since walked back his statement

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  • weakfish  8 days ago

    It’s hyperbolic and intended to generalize the sentiment I perceive from others.

    Dario Amodei said in January that he expected software engineers to be replaced [0], so I suppose the quote should be extended to “can do anything… a software engineer can do”

    And I think we can all agree that SWE is on the more complex end of all white collar jobs. So, my thinking is that if SWE can hypothetically be replaced, so can many other jobs. Hence, the claim the models can “do anything” intending to capture the majority of white collar work.

    This, of course, is if you take their claim at face value - which I certainly do not.

    [0] https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/ai-ceo-says-softw...

    • AndrewKemendo  8 days ago

      So then nobody actually has ever said that and its explicitly hyperbole

      So then its misleading in the extreme to say “I’ve been told AI can do anything”

      It amplifies hype when people make claims like this by including hyperbolic statements as though they are reflective of the state of the discussion.

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