Ground shift

It has been a while since my ideas wandered around here.

The work, and the meaning of it, has also transformed – kind of like a catalyst. During 2022 I was deep diving on self-hosting and being a privacy-first advocate. I still am, but not in the state I was back then. I still think that encryption is the best technology that was ever created. It materialized and hardcoded privacy into human society. Laws like that you don’t see for other rights. Going on a tangent here.

Never thought I would have AGI in my lifetime. Now it’s a matter of definition – some will agree, others will nitpick while their agent does their work, or are prompting one last time before going on a break. Would be a bet I would lose, definitely. But the most interesting thing is the glue that binds it together is very simple. AI inference on a loop. Back during the pandemic, I remember a podcast where John Carmack participated in where he was describing that the technology that would bring about artificial intelligence would be very simple – not a codebase of millions of lines. He nailed it.

I’m very glad that I’m here to experience this explosion in potential, only to realise that our motivation is our bottleneck. Coming to terms with that potential is still step by step. We will increase in capabilities, have other interfaces where we can output more through more abstractions, abstractions that can put us on a roadmap to expansion. Very positive outlook.

Meanwhile we have to read multiple slop a day when going through any social media feed. Time to leave behind these old school digital gathering places. They’re now a collapsible training ground to feed more data scrapers. Still, a lot of curiosity can be triggered from lone posters on their own blogging websites. Very glad that we still have that.

Now as it touches my area of expertise – I have mourned the death of ape coding and came back really excited. Ape coding, described as the manual coding. The potential of this technology to help me build systems on a scale that I could only dream of back then. Now everything seems reachable. Once upon a time I was locked to a technology, afraid to switch without a large commitment of time and eyebrows. Now it’s interesting to try something new. The syntax does not matter now. It’s all English downstream. Of course taste stays, and that’s something that I want to keep training myself on – checking what works, what doesn’t, what’s a very dumb idea. But now you can try both and not feel like you’ve wasted a week of your life.

I could explore more topics, but I leave that for another time. Hope you come back.