Imagination is more important than knowledge. ~ Einstein
My current sabbatical in New Orleans got me rethinking the meaning of work, the universe, everything. We are at the doorsteps of machine super intelligence (ASIs), what will remain are only what’s human. Intuition of the Culture girl in Iain Banks’ Consider Phlebas could out guess Minds a million times smarter than her. What else can we, I do in the coming age?
I have 2 ideas. I’ve not been more excited than since I built isoHunt 25 years ago. I’m going monk mode in my cave
The vibes must flow. Long live the builders!
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Vibe coding is akin to the rise of Jazz around New Orleans. What was considered devil music, low class by uneducated self taught musicians breaking all the rules of classical music birthed whole new inventive genres. I believe this will happen to all sectors of knowledge work. Professionals relying on certifications and established processes with no creativity are not going to have a good time
I also hate the word artificial in ASI. First, there won’t be AGI, we are the general intelligence. ASI should be rebranded to be more accurately MSI. There’s human intelligence, and there’s machine intelligence. Artificial will be like a racist word. We will coexist like in the Culture
There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.