Jason Duncan

Software engineer. Building AI systems.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

The Golden Age of Engineering is here

for now

[Chaofan Shou @shoucccc]

i interviewed a few new grads asking for $150k+ salary and had them to ssh into a server

three sent me their ssh private keys, two never heard of it, one tried to rdp the host, one gave me their computer's teamviewer token. some of them are phd btw.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@rileybrown If you don’t have AI psychosis, are you even trying?

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@GohilHardy I think the word you’re looking for is “exposing”

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@GaryMarcus There’s pushback?

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@jarenoid @rileybrown I’m embarrassed to admit you just blew my mind with this. Well, of course you can tell a session how to name itself, right? That’s awesome.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@rileybrown I swear to God, some of them just disappear

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

Yeah, this is why I think code is going to largely go away the same way that machine code has largely left our purview. We’re already doing a work in the area of visualization and narrative engineering exploring new ways to understand what’s happening. But I think, just my gut feeling, source code itself will become more of an intermediate representation and not something people actually work with in their hands. I think that world looks completely different maybe different languages even or a different architecture.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

My take is that we’re actually thinking about two different things. I think the AGI label is just a big confusing mess first of all. But I do think we’re talking about two different things. One group of people are trying to solve the scientific definition of intelligence. They’re trying to win a science fair project. And another group of people are just trying to get something to work intelligently. Whether or not a child is smarter than AI is largely irrelevant in the task of building, intelligent infrastructure. It’s not unimportant and it’s not invalid but I don’t think some of these questions of conversation conversations are exactly relevant to everyone. Again, my example is the transistor. On his face it’s not that impressive but it was used that scale in elegant ways to build the digital world. I kind of think that’s what’s happening here.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@HolderOftheFire I imagine its something like systems theory + scale = emergent behavior

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@wherecantigo @_ontologic Bless your heart

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@madebynishan @_coenen Even the photographers don’t want to take photos anymore. That’s how insane this is.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@mattpocockuk The nature of most knowledge work is going to change, I predict it’ll be closer to engineering. Everything will be engineering.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@oldstackjournal They think everyone's supposed to maintain a general purpose SaaS and argue without realizing people dont need all that bloated software, and will be better off just having exactly the right process custom molded to their business.

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@ashokgelal Reading other people's code is a real skill. Most of them do not have that skill.

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@mattwensing So how fast do you expect the entire world to change?

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@peer_rich file taxes is so last year

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@mikejulian yeah its bad, even the 'desktop' apps are just electron - you have to build your own

[Jason Duncan @JAS0Nduncan]

@thetronchguy Sounds like he needs a new team.