Comment by jacquesm
19 hours ago
I love these hacks, even though from an efficiency point of view it is horrifying to my assembly-code-golfing-brain. And it also gives some new appreciation for how much more efficient deterministic programs are compared to AI.
The day is coming when we have widespread local inference on super powerful and efficient hardware and people will ask it what time the store closes, get distracted, and then ask it again instead of scrolling up.
That probably has already happened.
I’m ashamed to admit I do this on my work account sometimes… Not for looking up a basic fact of course.
I wish they would let me use claude desktop, I really hate looking at the terminal and don’t know how to customize it to make it more readable
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There’s another way?
am i the only one confused by this ?
I believe GP is making the point that tokens are expensive atm so we are better at conserving them (the scroll back part), but soon it'll be so inexpensive or even free that we won't bother.
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Once our compute base shifts from silicon to human brains grown in vats, you'll be thankful you can run all your old deterministic compute tasks on flesh neurons!
Two years ago: nice toy.
18 months ago: it can do some things but it’s generally not useful.
12 months ago: wow; this can write ok code that a human has to do a lot of review to make sure it’s ok.
6 months ago: holy fuck I’m shipping great stuff with only the occasional redo.
3 months ago: Jesus Christ this is actually pretty fucking great. I have to work entirely differently; becoming a manager of my single agent launching sub agents.
1 month ago: my god I am shipping more, faster, and more useful than ever.
Today: we have fleets of highly effectively domain expert agents working entirely autonomously and shifting between fleets depending on domain, available usage remaining, and we’re shipping 10x with 100% better reviews than before—expanding by the day and self-improving its own harness.
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Next week: the agents will prioritize code golf.
The week after that: everything is written in ASM.
We’ll come full circle in 3y
e: fyi; this is my personal progression with LLMs.
Next week: hey, I'm out of a job, what happened?
This is what I don't get with the kind of posts you are replying to.
I have experienced directly what the evolution of cloud based software, and now AI based tooling, has done to team sizes on delivery projects.
Cannot understand how they don't get how all the performance improvements directly correlates to smaller team sizes, in shareholders driven economy.
So far I have been lucky, and just hope to have enough savings when time comes, as finding jobs after 50s wasn't already easy without having to add AI on top.
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I think that's this week
Speaking of code golf, I had it optimize Diskitude into a <8 kb (still uncompressed) executable, add some features, and improve scanning performance all while increasing size. An LLM will gladly make extremely optimized software, you just have to ask for it.
> The week after that: everything is written in ASM.
Also “1 month ago,” but s/ASM/Rust
> The week after that: everything is written in ASM.
This is an genuinely good minimalist good editor that is created in mostly assembly that was created with the help of AI[0]
I maintain a fork of it which basically adds scratchpad ability to it and is something that I use daily myself for what it's worth[1]
My fork was created with the help of GLM 5.3 (an open-weights model)
The future is already here in some sense. I could in theory add more features but I intentionally add not more features because asm is still slightly difficult for it to write but in some sense the tradeoff has been/could be worth it. It was more of an experiment really and I am really impressed by it.
in many ways, forcing AI to write asm does make you now think intentionally of features and ironically prevents feature creep and makes you think of stability of the product (atleast right now for me anyways)
[0]: https://rhun.app
[1]: https://github.com/serJaimeLannister/rhunpad
i wish this was my experience, it's basically the opposite. im shipping a little faster -- but spending endless amounts of time reviewing LLM-generated code that usually isnt production ready.