It seems obvious to me. Just like drawing and sketching helps thinking about design, coding helps thinking about programming.
It's one of the reasons for the "one to throw away"-idea of writing shitty code first just to get it to work, and then remake it after you have thought through the problem by coding it.
I've been involved with Kite, and I think back on the "learnings". With the recent development of LLMs, I'm astounded how dated the conversation seem now.
I think of programming languages as an interface between humans and computers. If anything, the industry expanded because of this abstraction. Not everyone has to learn assembly to build cool shit.
To me AI is the next step in this abstraction where you don't need to learn programming languages to potentially build cool projects. The hard part of software engineering is scale anyways. My bet is that this will expand the industry in unprecedented ways. Will there be contraction of traditional programming jobs? Absolutely. The growth in tech jobs over the last 20 years weren't more assembly programmers. They were abstraction experts.
I'm sure the next wave will be even bigger, professional prompting will explode in size.
The C abstracting the assembly or the GC a abstracting away memory management work because they were possible to implement in a deterministic and reliable way (well, in the case of garbage collection, not all the time)
But I don't think that's a similar situation for LLMs, where the hallucinations or failure to debug their own issues are way too frequent to just "vibe code"
Have you ever had a beer before? Or are you friends with someone who has had a beer before? Beer doesn’t just fall out of the sky, so it must be made somewhere.
Do you care about climate change? If so, then you should care about liquids being shipped as short of a distance as possible.
Edit: Also, the brewery moved to the neighborhood approximately 100 years before you did. Why did you choose to move to the area if you didn’t want to be next to them when there was no indication that they would be leaving anytime soon?
From this blog post, I could already feel the bureaucratic nature of their org. My money's still on OpenAI. I think their motivation is more pure, their objectives more focused, and their org more simple. I usually think of product dominance in two vectors: first to market and benchmarks.
Google took over the world as something like the 11th search engine to hit the market, but some of their benchmarks were 10x better.
OpenAI has both going for them right now and I don't think that's going to change.
I think America/Europe would've gone through a similar phenomenon were it not for immigration. Immigration presents a significant challenge to the culture, but it's a necessity to keep evolving the economy and make sure your population/ideas don't stagnate.
I'm from Japan, and I think Japan would've potentially kept it's second place in GDP ranking if they were more aggressive with opening up the country to immigrants and creating a narrative for what it means to be Japanese outside of blood and heritage.
Why care about nominal GDP though? More important how the economy does per capita and Japan seems to have held its wealth over time, there's almost no change¹ since the 90s. Economically and development wise, Japan has done remarkably well.
Mass immigration is a big gamble, with problems societies might not foresee and that only manifest many years later. It worked more or less well in a place like Canada, but for a counter example look at Western Europe, they messed it up.
What do you mean? The EU is the third largest GDP and half of the GDP is just comprised of France, Germany, and Italy all of which has a dwindling native population, and its growth propelled by easy immigration within the EU.
For me there's no city in the US as walkable as NYC or SF. NYC is super busy, but I just like how I could bike / walk / transit virtually anywhere within the city.
I dunno, I think Chicago is certainly more walkable and less car-dependent than SF. Then you have DC, which probably is (substantially more public transit at least) as well, and even cities like Minneapolis which are probably more amenable to walking over a larger area than the actual core, downtown SF area.
SF has ok public transit for the west coast I suppose. But overall it’s quite poor compared to the east coast from DC north, or a city like Chicago.
Honestly, it's not that bad. I find that once I'm properly bundled up, outdoor temps between 20° and 30° are downright comfortable. It's not until about 15° that you get the cold that just seeps in everywhere, and it rarely gets that low in Chicago (at least at any time of day I'd be walking outside).
High-density and car-hostile != walkable. If walking means that you have to always be watching your step to avoid feces and used hypodermic needles, and you're constantly getting accosted for money or worse, that's at least as unwalkable as the stroads of suburbia.
