I'm lucky enough to have a great doctor and access to excellent Bay Area medical care. I've taken lots of standard screening tests over the years and have tried lots of "health tech" devices and tools.
With all this said, by far the most useful preventative medical advice that I've ever received has come from unleashing coding agents on my genome, having them investigate my specific mutations, and having them recommend specific follow-on tests and treatments.
Population averages are population averages, but we ourselves are not averages. For example, it turns out that I probably have a 30x(!) higher-than-average predisposition to melanoma. Fortunately, there are both specific supplements that help counteract the particular mutations I have, and of course I can significantly dial up my screening frequency. So, this is very useful to know.
I don't know exactly how much the analysis cost, but probably less than $100. Sequencing my genome cost a few hundred dollars.
(One often sees papers and articles claiming that models aren't very good at medical reasoning. These analyses are usually based on employing several-year-old models, which is a kind of ludicrous malpractice. It is true that you still have to carefully monitor the agents' reasoning, and they do on occasion jump to conclusions or skip steps, requiring some nudging and re-steering. But, overall, they are almost literally infinitely better for this kind of work than what one can otherwise obtain today.)
There are still lots of questions about how this will diffuse and get adopted, but it seems very clear that medical practice is about to improve enormously. Exciting times!
Magical OpenClaw experiences that use frontier models cost $300-1,000/day today, heading to $10,000/day and more. The future shape of the entire technology industry will be how to drive that to $20/month.
I realized something else AI has changed about coding: you don't get stuck anymore.
Programming used to be punctuated by episodes of extreme frustration, when a tricky bug ground things to a halt. That doesn't happen anymore.
Box CEO @levie's defense of software over vibe-coded, n-of-1 internal tools:
"If you're Ford, and you're doing your supply chain on an ERP system, you want that to work the exact same way every single time."
"The billions of transactions going through that ERP system, you cannot take for granted. So the idea that you're going to go vibe-code that is not possible, or at least not likely."
"The other point is: your company has a fixed amount of IT resources. And you have to decide what you're going to spend your time on as an organization."
"Do you want to spend time on rebuilding something that the market can supply you, that's seen best practices thousands of times? Or do you want to go and build that out with your n-of-1 experience?"
"Or do you want to spend your limited, scarce resources on building software, and building experiences, that will make you more money, and that will actually be used by your customers?"
"I think on the margin the average enterprise is going to spend their time and energy on the latter."
"I'm 100% bullish on vibe-coding, 100% bullish that we're going to have 100x more software. But that still doesn't cross the threshold where I would want to go build our own CRM system."
@giovannibassi O hype que se formou (e já acabou) não tira o valor da tecnologia e sua aplicabilidade. Ter documentos armazenados de forma descentralizada com a habilidade de verificar sua veracidade e ownership é uma feature que muitos negócios/ pessoas querem, principalmente agora com IA.
@ImPedro00 I think it'll come mainly through education and skin in the game in realworld problems that these dapps are designed to solve. You understand the real value of BTC when you live in a country where inflation is real problem. Same with DeFi and the lack of access to fin services.