@cocoahomology@paulg@romlib_ I didn't write that. He did. Since I don't know any details, I didn't feel I should edit it. And because I don't know any details, it's no use asking me what he means. If you've read the preceding tweet, you know as much as I do.
Software is pure “thought stuff”. One person can write code and billions can run it. If anything, our linear time produces exponential value.
Therefore, I’ve never personally believed that developer time is expensive, that we have a “typing” problem. Or that English is somehow a better way to express code than a language as explicit as Zig.
Granted, there’s tons of (non valuable) bespoke software that LLMs can now create. But the valuable thought stuff? Great systems coders are becoming more valuable than ever.
In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.
we're currently in the mania phase of ai+math, soon we reach the trough of disillusionment (critical bugs in 'formally verified' code, slop proofs), before we can reach a new era of math where AI serves as an assistant to the only thing that mattered all along - human creativity
Thank you, everyone, for the incredible feedback on "the fall of the theorem economy"!
The subject is of course bigger than just AI and math—it's about the future of human cognition. A few remarks that didn't make it to the published version:⤵️