Programming is changing so fast... I'm trying VS Code Cursor + Sonnet 3.5 instead of GitHub Copilot again and I think it's now a net win. Just empirically, over the last few days most of my "programming" is now writing English (prompting and then reviewing and editing the generated diffs), and doing a bit of "half-coding" where you write the first chunk of the code you'd like, maybe comment it a bit so the LLM knows what the plan is, and then tab tab tab through completions. Sometimes you get a 100-line diff to your code that nails it, which could have taken 10+ minutes before.
I still don't think I got sufficiently used to all the features. It's a bit like learning to code all over again but I basically can't imagine going back to "unassisted" coding at this point, which was the only possibility just ~3 years ago.
I was very curious when I saw this about who the licensee was - turns out it is Google.
Consider this the first deal of the TAC 2.0 era. (TAC initially meant Traffic Acquisition Cost - now means Training Acquisition Cost).
TAC 1.0 was won by Google and their balance sheet where they paid billions of dollars to distribute their version of search. For example, they currently pay Apple $18B+ per year for Apple to push Google search on the iPhone.
In TAC 2.0 many billions will also be spent, but this time to license differentiating training data for AI models.
Your moat is your data.
So the more data you have and the more your data is unique , the more money you will make in the AI economy.
https://t.co/2RJfUVRIoT