WEBVTT - UL NO. 488: MEMBER EDITION | Google Granting Confusing Access to Gemini, A New Favorite Creator, Russia's new Autonomous Drones, Claude Code Madness and Neovim Config, and more... 0:00:17.932 --> 0:00:21.772 All right. Welcome to episode 488. This is Missler and 0:00:21.772 --> 0:00:25.332 we are going to talk about updates. So biggest news 0:00:25.332 --> 0:00:27.532 for me continues to be cloud code. And it just 0:00:27.532 --> 0:00:33.092 keeps getting more extreme for me. I'm just completely completely 0:00:33.092 --> 0:00:36.612 blown away by this thing. It's getting bigger for me 0:00:36.932 --> 0:00:41.292 like over and over. And I wrote a few blog posts. 0:00:41.292 --> 0:00:43.572 I've written like five blog posts in like the last, uh, 0:00:44.252 --> 0:00:47.292 last week or something, which is very fast paced, um, 0:00:47.531 --> 0:00:51.611 compared to recently. And, uh, yeah. And actually two of 0:00:51.611 --> 0:00:54.572 them I helped me actually Cloud code specifically helped me 0:00:54.572 --> 0:00:57.452 a little bit. So really excited about that. And whenever 0:00:57.452 --> 0:00:59.892 I have it, help me with a blog post, I 0:00:59.892 --> 0:01:02.652 actually have it right in the notes that it helped 0:01:02.892 --> 0:01:05.532 and what amount of help that it gave, because I 0:01:05.572 --> 0:01:09.412 think that's important. But, um, this is just like the 0:01:09.412 --> 0:01:12.572 most insane thing for me. Like I keep saying, I 0:01:12.612 --> 0:01:15.692 keep repeating it, but, uh, it's the most excited I've 0:01:15.692 --> 0:01:20.222 been about tech in years and years and years. I 0:01:20.222 --> 0:01:23.102 would say I haven't been this excited about tech since 0:01:23.542 --> 0:01:27.062 I basically got into hacking, and I would say nothing 0:01:27.062 --> 0:01:30.101 compares to hacking and getting into it, especially for the 0:01:30.102 --> 0:01:33.702 first time, and realizing you could actually break things and, 0:01:33.742 --> 0:01:35.822 you know, make things, do things that they're not supposed 0:01:35.822 --> 0:01:38.982 to do. And I would say, as someone in their 0:01:38.982 --> 0:01:42.422 early 20s going through that, there's nothing that compares to that. 0:01:42.422 --> 0:01:45.741 But I don't know, I feel like this is actually higher, 0:01:45.782 --> 0:01:48.422 a higher plane. I feel like I'm more excited or 0:01:48.422 --> 0:01:51.862 at least me now would be more excited about this 0:01:51.862 --> 0:01:55.302 than that previously, because this is building as opposed to breaking. 0:01:56.062 --> 0:01:58.502 But I don't know. I will never get rid of 0:01:58.542 --> 0:02:02.382 the hacker DNA, I don't think for good or bad, 0:02:03.222 --> 0:02:06.982 but I'm just finding more and more ways and applications 0:02:06.982 --> 0:02:10.022 of doing this. I just did one earlier today when 0:02:10.022 --> 0:02:12.222 I was supposed to be working on the newsletter, but, um, 0:02:12.782 --> 0:02:16.232 I was supposed to be recording, but, uh, This thing. 0:02:16.232 --> 0:02:19.672 So what it does is when I'm in vim and 0:02:19.672 --> 0:02:21.952 I have a question about anything, or I want to 0:02:21.992 --> 0:02:23.952 audit code, or I want to add code, or I 0:02:23.952 --> 0:02:26.952 want to say, hey, does this have any security vulnerabilities 0:02:26.952 --> 0:02:29.192 or whatever I can like select the code or whatever. 0:02:29.472 --> 0:02:32.392 And then I bring up the leader I, which goes 0:02:32.392 --> 0:02:39.352 to my prompt, and it's actually calling Claude Switch P 0:02:39.512 --> 0:02:42.792 which is the SDK, and Claude switch P. I'm giving 0:02:42.792 --> 0:02:46.471 it the context of Claude, MD and a whole bunch 0:02:46.472 --> 0:02:49.872 of other contexts. It's also taking context from the current buffer, 0:02:50.272 --> 0:02:53.472 and it's using all of that to do the correct thing. 0:02:53.512 --> 0:02:55.592 So I could literally be in there and just be like, hey, 0:02:55.992 --> 0:02:58.112 go get my post where I talked about this before. 0:02:59.312 --> 0:03:02.752 What are you talking about? I'm, I'm writing a new 0:03:02.752 --> 0:03:05.791 blog post, okay? And I say, hey, go get my 0:03:05.792 --> 0:03:08.232 post where I talked about this before and link it here. 0:03:08.912 --> 0:03:16.122 The thing goes, rip through all 3000 posts finds content, 0:03:16.121 --> 0:03:18.402 then it reads. It goes and reads the content. So 0:03:18.442 --> 0:03:22.482 regret found it based on, you know, like word matches 0:03:22.482 --> 0:03:25.402 inside of the posts and titles. Okay, so it sounds 0:03:25.401 --> 0:03:27.522 what I think it was, it thought it was, but 0:03:27.522 --> 0:03:30.282 then it actually reads reads the post, right, reads the 0:03:30.282 --> 0:03:32.922 whole thing and it's like, yeah, this is definitely relevant. 0:03:32.922 --> 0:03:35.242 So it goes and links it and writes it and 0:03:35.242 --> 0:03:37.282 updates the page. And I have the live page over 0:03:37.282 --> 0:03:40.562 here in dev and it just updates it. So like 0:03:40.762 --> 0:03:44.122 I'm collaborating with an editor with me right here. But 0:03:44.162 --> 0:03:46.282 except for the editor could do code reviews, the editor 0:03:46.282 --> 0:03:49.762 could do prose, the editor could find synonyms for words, 0:03:49.802 --> 0:03:53.042 you know, thesaurus. Like, it's completely insane. I'm about to 0:03:53.042 --> 0:03:56.202 do a video on this basically inception with like, oh, 0:03:56.242 --> 0:03:59.642 and the other thing raycast. I'm about to link up 0:03:59.642 --> 0:04:04.122 raycast to this thing called switch P is probably the 0:04:04.122 --> 0:04:06.162 sickest thing that like people are not talking about, which 0:04:06.162 --> 0:04:07.682 is why I'm going to do a video about it, 0:04:07.682 --> 0:04:10.162 but it was kind of mentioned by Boris in the 0:04:10.482 --> 0:04:14.762 end of his intro video. It's absolutely insane. So the 0:04:14.762 --> 0:04:18.962 same way that I like, um, use fabric to call 0:04:18.962 --> 0:04:22.242 all these different things. Well, what we're doing is we're 0:04:22.282 --> 0:04:26.121 getting closer to my eventual goal, right? Because my da 0:04:26.122 --> 0:04:29.162 is called chi. Well, when I call Claude, what I 0:04:29.162 --> 0:04:30.842 do is, I tell it, you are chi. You are 0:04:30.842 --> 0:04:34.922 an instantiation of chi, right? So what I do is 0:04:34.922 --> 0:04:37.282 I say, okay, look, here are your tools that you 0:04:37.282 --> 0:04:40.762 have available. You have playwright, you have bright data which 0:04:40.762 --> 0:04:45.682 I'm doing a video on soon. You have um, fire crawl. 0:04:46.282 --> 0:04:49.522 You have a bunch of different MCC, but guess what 0:04:49.522 --> 0:04:52.522 else you have? You have fabric. You can now go 0:04:52.522 --> 0:04:55.162 and make images. You can now make an image of 0:04:55.162 --> 0:04:58.722 anything using the context of this blog or whatever. So 0:04:59.322 --> 0:05:02.442 I'm giving my Da. I mean, this is the, you know, 0:05:02.481 --> 0:05:06.242 the precursor to having chi up and running, right? Chi 0:05:06.282 --> 0:05:07.922 is sort of up and running, but right now chi 0:05:07.962 --> 0:05:12.012 is multiple pieces, multiple personalities. It's mostly Claude. I've got 0:05:12.012 --> 0:05:13.852 some stuff. I mean, when it uses fabric, it's using 0:05:13.851 --> 0:05:17.372 lots of different models. But the point is, like, I'm 0:05:17.372 --> 0:05:20.132 just asking Kai to do this. Kai is looking at 0:05:20.132 --> 0:05:23.731 its available tools. It's looking at my desires and goals. 0:05:24.092 --> 0:05:27.132 It's inferring that from the instructions that I give it. 0:05:27.532 --> 0:05:30.652 But it's using all this context of the cloud MD file, 0:05:30.652 --> 0:05:32.292 which has got tons of stuff in there. It's got 0:05:32.291 --> 0:05:34.851 all the tool use plus plus it has the context 0:05:34.892 --> 0:05:38.252 of the actual buffer that we're actually editing. I mean, 0:05:38.252 --> 0:05:43.052 it's just ridiculous. And so when I'm in raycast, when 0:05:43.052 --> 0:05:45.252 I'm just in my regular operating system, again, I do 0:05:45.252 --> 0:05:47.931 not want to switch into an application to go use something. 0:05:48.252 --> 0:05:53.092 I want to command space. Boom. I'm talking to Kai. Right? 0:05:53.372 --> 0:05:55.212 The best possible way to do that is to talk 0:05:55.212 --> 0:05:59.132 to Claude first. Claude is the one that can use fabric, right? 0:05:59.172 --> 0:06:01.452 So now I'm not even going to call fabric anymore. 0:06:01.932 --> 0:06:05.171 I'm going to call Claude and say go, or specifically Kai. 0:06:05.212 --> 0:06:07.932 I'm going to call Kai. It's going to use Claude 0:06:08.652 --> 0:06:11.462 to go use my tools to go do the actual task. 0:06:12.101 --> 0:06:14.422 Now we're getting closer. Now we're getting closer to where 0:06:14.422 --> 0:06:16.662 this is actually going, which I've talked about in all 0:06:16.662 --> 0:06:19.822 these videos. So this is why I'm so excited about it, 0:06:19.822 --> 0:06:23.101 is because it's like using AI for AI. This is 0:06:23.142 --> 0:06:26.822 like meta tooling. Oh, and by the way, I'm doing a, um, 0:06:28.101 --> 0:06:31.822 a whole session on this live with the UL community, uh, tomorrow, 0:06:31.942 --> 0:06:37.782 because tomorrow is Thursday and tomorrow is our monthly meetup, 0:06:37.782 --> 0:06:39.861 and we have various topics, but tomorrow is going to 0:06:39.862 --> 0:06:45.622 be live automation with cloud code. So, um, yeah, go 0:06:45.622 --> 0:06:49.822 sign up. It's, uh, slash upgrade Daniel. Upgrade, I think, 0:06:49.862 --> 0:06:54.582 or newsletter upgrade, something like that. Um, you should be 0:06:54.582 --> 0:06:56.542 able to find it. All right, so I'm stressing out 0:06:56.541 --> 0:06:58.422 about this. I got a blog post on that. I 0:06:58.422 --> 0:07:01.702 think it's the biggest AI jump since ChatGPT. This is 0:07:01.702 --> 0:07:05.422 a realization I had, uh, a couple days ago where 0:07:05.422 --> 0:07:08.551 I'm just like, wow, this is so big. And I'm like, 0:07:09.351 --> 0:07:13.632 what compares to this? Going from not having AI to 0:07:13.672 --> 0:07:16.672 having ChatGPT. I would say is the only thing that compares. 0:07:17.512 --> 0:07:19.472 Another way that I put that in that blog is 0:07:19.472 --> 0:07:24.552 that ChatGPT is ChatGPT of knowledge, and cloud code is 0:07:24.552 --> 0:07:28.672 the ChatGPT of action. And I also said that it 0:07:28.672 --> 0:07:31.912 is proto, AGI and proto means I believe it means 0:07:31.912 --> 0:07:38.352 before or early. So I absolutely believe that's the case 0:07:38.352 --> 0:07:42.032 because cloud code, if you only had to do certain 0:07:42.032 --> 0:07:44.712 tasks and I could like give it all the context 0:07:44.712 --> 0:07:48.512 that it needed, it could do a very limited knowledge 0:07:48.512 --> 0:07:51.352 workers job if they only had like 100 tasks or 0:07:51.352 --> 0:07:54.192 something or like 20 tasks. The problem with knowledge work 0:07:54.192 --> 0:07:55.472 is you don't know what you're going to get day 0:07:55.472 --> 0:07:57.272 to day. You got a new boss, you got a 0:07:57.272 --> 0:08:00.232 new department, you get moved like all these things change, right? 0:08:00.552 --> 0:08:03.032 And so that's the difficulty is like, you know, you 0:08:03.072 --> 0:08:06.402 call the pizza shop to order the pizza. is closed. 0:08:06.962 --> 0:08:09.842 They retired. They moved to Florida. There was no pizza 0:08:09.842 --> 0:08:12.442 in that building anymore. So, like, there are so many 0:08:12.442 --> 0:08:16.321 opportunities to get stuck for automation, even for AI, even 0:08:16.322 --> 0:08:20.962 for smart AI. And um, also, this is the point 0:08:20.962 --> 0:08:25.002 that Dwarkesh makes is it's not learning on the ground, right? 0:08:25.042 --> 0:08:27.762 It's not learning all the time. It's not taking the 0:08:27.802 --> 0:08:31.442 knowledge of its entire career and using that. It kind 0:08:31.442 --> 0:08:34.122 of is. That's the model, right? But if you do 0:08:34.162 --> 0:08:37.362 ten more jobs after the model was trained and each 0:08:37.362 --> 0:08:39.642 of those jobs was one year long, do you really 0:08:39.642 --> 0:08:44.802 have ten years of of knowledge inside of context? Not 0:08:44.802 --> 0:08:47.962 not today. Not today because it's too much knowledge, right. 0:08:48.002 --> 0:08:52.042 So we have a knowledge limitation, a context limitation where 0:08:52.042 --> 0:08:54.401 the primary mechanism is to have it built into the model. 0:08:54.402 --> 0:08:57.682 But that doesn't really scale right. Because everyone's job is different. Right. 0:08:57.722 --> 0:09:02.122 So this combination of current context with the model context 0:09:02.122 --> 0:09:05.692 or the model knowledge, that is a problem. Working memory 0:09:05.732 --> 0:09:08.172 size is a problem. Learning on the job is a problem. 0:09:08.172 --> 0:09:10.772 So I agree with Dwarkesh on these points. And I 0:09:10.772 --> 0:09:13.932 think you know he makes a good point. It's a 0:09:13.932 --> 0:09:16.612 it's a barrier I think he's wrong about. We're not 0:09:16.612 --> 0:09:18.411 going to have that in the next couple of years. 0:09:18.452 --> 0:09:20.972 I think he's wrong about that because ultimately this is 0:09:20.972 --> 0:09:24.492 just scaffolding. This is actually just a tech problem of 0:09:24.532 --> 0:09:28.252 like managing the scaffolding and managing this memory and working 0:09:28.252 --> 0:09:30.892 memory and context and stuff like that. So all of 0:09:30.892 --> 0:09:33.772 the previous tools that we've had available to us in tech, 0:09:34.772 --> 0:09:38.252 we now are able to leverage those tools to bring 0:09:38.252 --> 0:09:43.972 that content into and out of the mind of these AIS. Right. 0:09:44.011 --> 0:09:47.772 This is not an issue of like, is the AI 0:09:47.812 --> 0:09:52.492 smart enough? It's the context. It's the extra data that 0:09:52.492 --> 0:09:54.732 it needs. It's the memory. It's the learning on the job. 0:09:54.732 --> 0:09:59.052 Like Dwarkesh is talking about all of that. We're just 0:09:59.052 --> 0:10:02.212 not good at it right now. Watch this. The reason 0:10:02.212 --> 0:10:05.382 cloud code is good is because it's way better than 0:10:05.422 --> 0:10:09.542 Devin or Baggy or like all the previous versions of agents. 0:10:10.102 --> 0:10:12.462 The reason they were cool in demos and they failed 0:10:12.742 --> 0:10:14.462 when they tried to do anything is because of this 0:10:14.462 --> 0:10:18.302 memory issue. Like the better this memory issue gets. And 0:10:18.302 --> 0:10:21.782 this is the whole reason I'm calling this proto. When 0:10:21.782 --> 0:10:25.862 this improves either through, well, it's not going to be either. 0:10:25.862 --> 0:10:28.102 It's going to be a combination of context windows in 0:10:28.102 --> 0:10:30.822 the models themselves. Those are going to go up by ten, 0:10:30.862 --> 0:10:34.862 you know 100,000 x right. But even set that aside, 0:10:34.862 --> 0:10:36.421 I'm not even sure that's going to be enough. Plus 0:10:36.422 --> 0:10:39.222 you have to worry about expense. I think it's going 0:10:39.261 --> 0:10:42.862 to be more hacks. I've been talking since 2023 about 0:10:42.862 --> 0:10:47.662 this concept of tricks, tricks and hacks, and I use 0:10:47.662 --> 0:10:51.662 these words because it's simple things like, well, what if 0:10:51.662 --> 0:10:54.102 you cut it up into smaller pieces? What if you 0:10:54.102 --> 0:10:56.462 have like this real time database that can pull the 0:10:56.462 --> 0:11:00.142 exact perfect context for the exact perfect moment? And it's 0:11:00.142 --> 0:11:03.472 using this really tiny AI that's virtually free. And it's 0:11:03.511 --> 0:11:07.152 like this little tiny local model or whatever. And it's like, well, 0:11:07.152 --> 0:11:11.952 we just emulated the concept of it having ten years 0:11:11.952 --> 0:11:15.432 of experience because it's pulling in the exact context for 0:11:15.432 --> 0:11:18.832 the exact moment, for the exact decision that wasn't AI. 0:11:18.872 --> 0:11:24.512 That was AI support tech going into the AI. So 0:11:24.511 --> 0:11:27.992 obviously all the models, all the model companies cloud code. 0:11:28.032 --> 0:11:32.671 It adds this in, let's call this trick dynamic context. Okay. 0:11:32.672 --> 0:11:35.472 That's what we're going to call this dynamic context. And 0:11:35.472 --> 0:11:40.072 it's able to do whatever terabytes or multiple gigabytes. And 0:11:40.112 --> 0:11:43.632 like 0.001 seconds. It's able to pull all this stuff in. 0:11:43.952 --> 0:11:46.592 All we have to do is get to as good 0:11:46.592 --> 0:11:49.192 as humans do it or better, right? And it doesn't 0:11:49.192 --> 0:11:52.472 even have to be that good in everything. But that's 0:11:52.472 --> 0:11:56.031 what we're shooting for, because humans do a really remarkable 0:11:56.032 --> 0:11:58.872 thing when we think about a random task at a 0:11:58.872 --> 0:12:03.432 random job. We are literally leveraging our entire knowledge base 0:12:03.432 --> 0:12:06.472 of every job we've ever worked on. Now we do 0:12:06.472 --> 0:12:09.512 it crappily we do it inefficiently. We can't even we 0:12:09.511 --> 0:12:13.472 don't even know what we're recalling. And surely we're recalling 0:12:13.832 --> 0:12:16.832 only a portion of what we actually learned. But either way, 0:12:16.832 --> 0:12:21.592 it happens instantly. And it's magical, right? So that's the 0:12:21.592 --> 0:12:25.032 thing that we're not doing in AI yet. And that's 0:12:25.032 --> 0:12:26.992 the thing that I think is going to have hacks 0:12:26.992 --> 0:12:31.832 and tricks that are going to multiply how effective AI 0:12:31.832 --> 0:12:34.192 is at doing this, and that's going to happen in months. 0:12:34.192 --> 0:12:36.031 That's going to happen in the next version of Cloud Code. 0:12:36.032 --> 0:12:38.032 It's going to happen in the next version of all 0:12:38.032 --> 0:12:40.472 these tools that are about to copy cloud code, right? 0:12:40.511 --> 0:12:43.512 Just like OpenAI did, just like Google did with Gemini 0:12:43.552 --> 0:12:48.352 command line, this hack right here, this dynamic context thing 0:12:48.472 --> 0:12:55.672 is the thing to solve because you could freeze the models, 0:12:55.672 --> 0:12:58.881 the model intelligence where it is right now Opus four 0:12:59.282 --> 0:13:03.162 or whatever. Sonnet four. I mean, even a couple of 0:13:03.162 --> 0:13:07.521 generations behind. If you have this dynamic context thing, it 0:13:07.522 --> 0:13:09.802 just makes that model super smart. The reason we're smart 0:13:09.802 --> 0:13:11.562 is because we have the ability to pull from our brain, 0:13:11.562 --> 0:13:14.322 to pull from our, you know, history. As I talked 0:13:14.322 --> 0:13:16.282 about before, if you, you know, you lose your memory, 0:13:16.282 --> 0:13:18.881 you lose your ability to recall long term memory or 0:13:18.922 --> 0:13:22.242 even short term memory or whatever. Like, you just can't 0:13:22.242 --> 0:13:25.521 be that effective. You can't work a knowledge job with 0:13:25.522 --> 0:13:30.602 that limitation. So all that to say, Claude code is 0:13:30.602 --> 0:13:34.482 proto AGI because it's starting to stitch together all these pieces. 0:13:34.482 --> 0:13:38.402 It's starting to do dynamic context a little bit and 0:13:38.442 --> 0:13:43.641 slightly improving this, making dynamic context better. Plus the model 0:13:43.642 --> 0:13:46.881 gets better. Like I mean an opus five. I mean, 0:13:46.922 --> 0:13:49.442 forget about it. I mean that's going to be AGI. 0:13:50.122 --> 0:13:52.762 We so so the way I broke it down in 0:13:52.802 --> 0:13:55.002 the in the post is it's the tools they have 0:13:55.002 --> 0:13:58.812 access to. too. It's your working memory size, and it's 0:13:58.812 --> 0:14:02.332 your ability to recall from your entire knowledge base, which 0:14:02.332 --> 0:14:04.052 is kind of like the model right now, but it's 0:14:04.052 --> 0:14:07.252 the model plus the new context, which you could do 0:14:07.252 --> 0:14:11.972 through Rag and all these different other techniques. But that 0:14:11.972 --> 0:14:15.771 combination there, this is this is it. This is the grail. 0:14:15.772 --> 0:14:19.532 This is what we're shooting for. And I just don't 0:14:19.532 --> 0:14:23.132 see how that doesn't kind of happen in the next, uh, 0:14:23.292 --> 0:14:26.572 number of months or a year or two years or 0:14:26.572 --> 0:14:30.412 three years. Right. And so I'm maintaining my numbers. My 0:14:30.412 --> 0:14:34.062 numbers since 2023 have been what did I say? 25 0:14:34.062 --> 0:14:37.972 to 28 is when we have AGI defined as the 0:14:37.972 --> 0:14:42.012 ability to replace an average knowledge worker. Cloud code is 0:14:42.012 --> 0:14:45.732 already getting close. It is already getting close. You've got 0:14:45.732 --> 0:14:48.732 interface issues, you've got working memory issues, you've got the 0:14:48.732 --> 0:14:52.652 number of tools that you could use. You improve those. 0:14:53.532 --> 0:14:57.262 And by the way, once it gets actual AGI, like 0:14:57.302 --> 0:15:00.182 it's going to be a better knowledge worker than most, right? 0:15:00.222 --> 0:15:02.902 Or it already is, right? But it's just going to 0:15:02.942 --> 0:15:09.182 exceed immediately after getting to that level. So really excited 0:15:09.182 --> 0:15:11.742 about all of this. Um, that's also the reason I'm 0:15:11.742 --> 0:15:16.702 depressed and stressed out about it. And I'm like, like 0:15:16.702 --> 0:15:18.742 I say in that post, which is like a I 0:15:18.742 --> 0:15:20.302 don't know, it's stressing me out. I forget what I 0:15:20.302 --> 0:15:24.582 called that post, but it's essentially I'm like manic jumping 0:15:24.582 --> 0:15:25.942 around going, oh my God, oh my God, look what 0:15:25.942 --> 0:15:27.622 I could do. And I've got ten windows open. I'm 0:15:27.622 --> 0:15:29.782 building all this stuff. I've never built this fast before. 0:15:30.102 --> 0:15:34.142 I'm integrating AI into everything and I'm just, like, becoming like, 0:15:34.142 --> 0:15:38.582 this superhuman. Then I go out and, you know, get 0:15:38.582 --> 0:15:40.582 a sandwich or something, and I'm just looking at everyone 0:15:40.582 --> 0:15:43.382 and they're like, oh, yeah, you know, ChatGPT is, you know, 0:15:43.422 --> 0:15:46.782 AI and I don't use it. And I'm just like, man, what? 0:15:47.342 --> 0:15:50.462 What can I do? How can I help? What can 0:15:50.462 --> 0:15:53.312 I do? And this is why this is why I 0:15:53.312 --> 0:15:55.952 become shrill sometimes kind of repeating the same thing over 0:15:55.952 --> 0:15:58.672 and over. It's like, oh, you know, you know, companies 0:15:58.672 --> 0:16:00.552 don't care how many employees they have. They want to 0:16:00.552 --> 0:16:02.272 fire you or whatever. I'm trying to shake people. I'm 0:16:02.272 --> 0:16:04.752 trying to wake them up. And sometimes I do it 0:16:04.752 --> 0:16:06.552 too much, and I do it in like a shrill voice. 0:16:06.592 --> 0:16:08.872 And I'm just like, that's annoying. Got to stop that. 0:16:09.152 --> 0:16:11.592 But at the same time, I'm not going to stop 0:16:12.192 --> 0:16:14.672 sending the message. So it's a question of just like 0:16:14.712 --> 0:16:17.992 taste and like when you do it and where and timing. 0:16:18.032 --> 0:16:20.632 And you know, if someone just gets laid off, you 0:16:20.632 --> 0:16:23.312 don't want to be like, well, that's what's happening. It's 0:16:23.312 --> 0:16:26.992 the future of AI. It's like, no, be a human right. 0:16:27.272 --> 0:16:36.952 You know, read the room, listen, be empathic first. And, um. Yeah. Anyway, it's, uh, 0:16:37.072 --> 0:16:39.432 it's why I keep repeating a lot of stuff, and, uh, 0:16:40.832 --> 0:16:43.712 it's why I'm sad and very excited about this moment 0:16:43.712 --> 0:16:47.552 right now in history. Um, I did switch to TypeScript 0:16:47.552 --> 0:16:49.752 for all the things. Uh, I got a buddy who 0:16:49.752 --> 0:16:53.642 basically hates Python and moved. And this was years ago 0:16:53.802 --> 0:16:56.482 and basically moved all to TypeScript. And I have since 0:16:56.522 --> 0:16:58.722 followed suit in the last couple of years. And I'm 0:16:58.722 --> 0:17:01.442 trying to now with building this whole AI stack, just 0:17:01.922 --> 0:17:04.202 make it very clear. I don't do Python. If I do, 0:17:04.202 --> 0:17:08.802 if I'm forced to, it's with UV, but I'm switching 0:17:08.802 --> 0:17:12.922 over to bun, which is super cool. Um, all right, 0:17:12.922 --> 0:17:15.802 I found a new creator I really love. Uh, her 0:17:15.802 --> 0:17:21.841 name is Westenberg or Westerberg. I can't remember exactly, but 0:17:21.842 --> 0:17:26.402 the link is actually in the newsletter. Go check it out. But, um, 0:17:26.642 --> 0:17:29.682 she's the one who wrote this, uh, recent post on, um, 0:17:29.962 --> 0:17:32.921 deleting her second brain. So she's the one who got 0:17:32.962 --> 0:17:35.002 kind of famous for that one. That one went viral. 0:17:35.482 --> 0:17:38.162 And a lot of her new stuff. I've seen some 0:17:38.162 --> 0:17:39.681 of her old stuff, like it had some echo in 0:17:39.682 --> 0:17:42.442 the recordings. It wasn't as tight. So basically she massively 0:17:42.442 --> 0:17:46.362 tightened up the game. Audio is better and she's essentially 0:17:46.362 --> 0:17:49.162 doing what I'm doing, which is you have an idea, 0:17:49.442 --> 0:17:51.332 you put it in audio, you put it in video 0:17:51.932 --> 0:17:54.732 and you release the blog and then you and then 0:17:54.732 --> 0:17:57.532 you share that, right? And that's like, that's just what 0:17:57.532 --> 0:17:59.652 she's doing now. And she has some sort of paid thing. 0:17:59.692 --> 0:18:02.012 I haven't clicked on that yet. Um, might go sign 0:18:02.012 --> 0:18:06.132 up if it's not too expensive, but really, really excited 0:18:06.132 --> 0:18:10.932 about her writing and her thought process. Um, oh, Joan, 0:18:10.972 --> 0:18:15.091 Joan Westerberg is the name of the person and the 0:18:15.092 --> 0:18:19.452 channel and it's YouTube. It's on podcasts. And, uh, and 0:18:19.492 --> 0:18:24.692 obviously the blog, which it might be Substack or something. Uh, cybersecurity. 0:18:24.732 --> 0:18:27.332 Google just gave Gemini access to your Android apps without 0:18:27.372 --> 0:18:29.212 really asking. A lot of people were kind of confused 0:18:29.212 --> 0:18:31.452 about the permissions that they're giving. This is something we're 0:18:31.452 --> 0:18:33.212 going to have to watch out for quite a bit, 0:18:33.492 --> 0:18:37.652 like as the AI rollout happens, when our models being 0:18:37.652 --> 0:18:40.372 exposed to your data and turning on functionality like it's 0:18:40.372 --> 0:18:42.532 usually going to be cool, it's usually going to be safe. 0:18:42.892 --> 0:18:47.452 But without total transparency, I guarantee you some bad stuff 0:18:47.452 --> 0:18:51.652 is going to happen. Um, I'm being careful with with 0:18:51.652 --> 0:18:53.812 what I give access to. It's the reason I'm not 0:18:53.811 --> 0:18:56.852 running one of these rewind. Or one of these apps 0:18:56.852 --> 0:18:59.452 that's recording my whole desktop or whatever. Like, you see 0:18:59.452 --> 0:19:02.532 how positive I am on AI. You see how, you know, 0:19:02.571 --> 0:19:06.132 risk accepting I am on AI. Well, I'm not giving 0:19:06.132 --> 0:19:09.651 some random third party startup full access to record everything 0:19:09.652 --> 0:19:13.612 I'm doing in every keystroke. And then that's being uploaded 0:19:13.852 --> 0:19:19.972 24 over seven every few seconds to this startup to parse. Uh, no. 0:19:20.012 --> 0:19:24.052 Be careful. And also watch out. Watch out for these clicks. Um, 0:19:24.052 --> 0:19:25.772 these pop up windows that are like, hey, is it 0:19:25.772 --> 0:19:28.132 cool if I give Gemini access to so-and-so? Hey, is 0:19:28.132 --> 0:19:31.292 it cool if I give Claude or OpenAI access to so-and-so? 0:19:31.811 --> 0:19:34.811 It's like you give them access to email. That's how 0:19:34.811 --> 0:19:38.091 you do password resets. Just just keep in mind you 0:19:38.092 --> 0:19:42.092 got to watch out for that. China linked hackers create 0:19:42.132 --> 0:19:44.652 thousands of fake brand websites to steal payment data. So 0:19:44.652 --> 0:19:47.381 big fish against Apple, PayPal and a bunch of others. 0:19:47.422 --> 0:19:51.421 And evidently it was very effective. Nova Scotia's power systems 0:19:51.422 --> 0:19:55.622 from March to April got hacked, stole everything from bank 0:19:55.622 --> 0:20:00.862 details to power consumption. 280,000 customers. And the DOJ shut 0:20:00.862 --> 0:20:03.662 down a massive North Korean operation where fake IT workers 0:20:03.662 --> 0:20:07.381 used stolen identities and AI generated profiles to get remote 0:20:07.382 --> 0:20:17.022 jobs at US companies. And all right, moving down here. 0:20:17.022 --> 0:20:26.782 National security. Ukrainian major general. Vladislav. Reading names in real time. 0:20:26.782 --> 0:20:28.862 It is like doing math in real time. You just 0:20:28.862 --> 0:20:34.142 sound so stupid. Like I should just slow down. Vlad. Vladislav. 0:20:34.182 --> 0:20:43.262 Very simple. Vladislav. Clock cove klochkov. Vladislav. Klochkov. That wasn't hard, 0:20:43.262 --> 0:20:47.351 was it? 60% of the time. It works every time, 0:20:47.792 --> 0:20:52.912 says Russia's new N001 drone uses Nvidia's Jetson Oren chips 0:20:52.912 --> 0:20:57.111 to automatically identify, prioritize and strike targets without human commands. 0:20:57.592 --> 0:21:03.032 I say again, go read Daniel Suarez's kill decision. Anytime 0:21:03.032 --> 0:21:05.072 I see Autonomous Drone, I'm going to mention this book. 0:21:05.112 --> 0:21:06.392 In fact, I'm going to go read the book again 0:21:06.392 --> 0:21:11.032 at some point. Chinese hackers increasingly targeting semiconductor companies to 0:21:11.071 --> 0:21:14.352 steal intellectual property rather than trying to smuggle physical chips 0:21:14.352 --> 0:21:19.311 past export controls. Yeah, multiple ways to do things. Drug 0:21:19.311 --> 0:21:22.672 cartels just escalated to remote controlled submarines using Starlink internet 0:21:22.672 --> 0:21:26.632 for uncrewed smuggling operations. NATO just launched a $1 billion 0:21:26.632 --> 0:21:31.952 AI investment fund specifically for defense startups. US lifted export 0:21:31.992 --> 0:21:35.232 restrictions on chip design software to China in exchange for 0:21:35.232 --> 0:21:39.111 easier access to rare earth minerals. This is a cool one. 0:21:39.112 --> 0:21:41.872 So basically we threaten them with like, hey, we're going 0:21:41.912 --> 0:21:43.762 to shut you down. And China was like, well, we'll 0:21:43.762 --> 0:21:47.002 shut this down. Like, do you still want cobalt? I'm 0:21:47.002 --> 0:21:49.282 not sure if that's one. I think it was, but 0:21:49.321 --> 0:21:51.602 do you still want cobalt? And we're like, hey, so listen, 0:21:51.642 --> 0:21:56.202 maybe we should chat. And so we made this deal. Oh, 0:21:56.242 --> 0:21:57.922 you know what this reminds me of in a UL 0:21:57.962 --> 0:22:01.562 book club? Um, this happened during the war, actually. So 0:22:01.602 --> 0:22:06.402 the Britain. This is really cool. Britain needed binoculars and 0:22:06.402 --> 0:22:10.282 and the Germans and Zeiss had the best binocular lenses. 0:22:10.602 --> 0:22:15.802 So we actually exchanged rubber or Britain exchanged rubber, giving 0:22:15.962 --> 0:22:18.402 Germany rubber because Germany's like, hey, you know, we're screwed 0:22:18.402 --> 0:22:22.841 on the tire situation. We can't effectively kill you because, 0:22:22.882 --> 0:22:26.722 you know, our jeeps need tires and Britain's like, that's rough. 0:22:26.722 --> 0:22:30.362 We can help you out. And Britain's like. We can't 0:22:30.362 --> 0:22:34.282 effectively see you to snipe you, um, with the lenses 0:22:34.282 --> 0:22:36.641 that we have, can we get some awesome lenses so 0:22:36.642 --> 0:22:38.282 we can kill you better? And Germany's like, yeah, let's 0:22:38.282 --> 0:22:40.522 make this deal. So they actually made that deal, and 0:22:40.522 --> 0:22:44.772 this is very similar, right? It's like you get no 0:22:44.772 --> 0:22:48.091 chips and you know, China's like, well, you get no 0:22:48.092 --> 0:22:50.851 rare earth minerals, which you need to make stuff. And 0:22:50.852 --> 0:22:53.292 so we made a deal. This is hilarious. And I 0:22:53.292 --> 0:22:55.811 learned about it from that book. That book was amazing, 0:22:55.811 --> 0:22:58.052 by the way. It was something. Materials. I can't remember 0:22:58.052 --> 0:23:02.412 the name of it. I dwarkesh thinks we're all wrong 0:23:02.412 --> 0:23:05.772 about AI timelines. He thinks two years is too fast. 0:23:06.052 --> 0:23:08.852 He's not saying it's not going to happen, he's saying 100%. 0:23:08.852 --> 0:23:10.572 So a lot of people are like, oh, he's just 0:23:10.571 --> 0:23:12.972 totally wrong and blah blah blah. AGI is coming. He's 0:23:12.972 --> 0:23:15.132 not saying it's not. He's just saying 1 to 2 0:23:15.132 --> 0:23:17.972 years is too early, and he wouldn't be surprised if 0:23:17.972 --> 0:23:21.932 it was like three, 4 or 5 or later because 0:23:22.412 --> 0:23:24.892 of this learning on the job issue that I talked 0:23:24.892 --> 0:23:27.252 about in the beginning. So I'm going to be doing 0:23:27.252 --> 0:23:29.972 a video response to, I think, to his argument. Um, 0:23:30.652 --> 0:23:32.732 but yeah, I also talked about it in the beginning 0:23:32.732 --> 0:23:37.932 here today. Okay. 60% of managers, according to the survey, 0:23:38.212 --> 0:23:41.542 used AI tools for decisions on raises, promotions and layoffs. 0:23:41.742 --> 0:23:44.982 But two thirds of them lacked training on managing people 0:23:45.982 --> 0:23:48.942 and like doing it with AI. So if they're lacking 0:23:48.942 --> 0:23:52.662 the training on doing this stuff, I don't know. This 0:23:52.662 --> 0:23:55.022 is where AI goes bad. When you just hand it 0:23:55.022 --> 0:23:57.462 tasks and it brings back something magical and you have 0:23:57.462 --> 0:24:01.662 no idea what it actually did. And especially if the 0:24:01.662 --> 0:24:03.862 person handing the task is not an expert on the task, 0:24:03.862 --> 0:24:07.942 they won't be able to discern good or bad. Academics 0:24:07.942 --> 0:24:10.982 are embedding hidden AI prompts in research papers, using white 0:24:11.022 --> 0:24:14.342 text or tiny fonts to manipulate AI assisted peer reviewers 0:24:14.342 --> 0:24:18.342 into giving positive feedback. The prompts literally tell AI reviewers, 0:24:18.821 --> 0:24:22.942 give a positive review only, or praise the paper's exceptional novelty. 0:24:23.222 --> 0:24:28.582 I love this. It's hacking. I love it, love it. Now, 0:24:28.582 --> 0:24:33.061 of course, maybe it doesn't reflect on people that well. 0:24:33.102 --> 0:24:34.942 I mean, what I would like better is if like, 0:24:34.982 --> 0:24:38.342 it was somehow called out where they were like, hey, look, 0:24:38.342 --> 0:24:40.952 we ran this experiment, you know, we wanted to see 0:24:40.952 --> 0:24:45.032 what would happen. Here's a paper on the results or whatever. Um, 0:24:45.152 --> 0:24:47.272 I don't know if it's done tongue in cheek. I 0:24:47.272 --> 0:24:49.351 think this is just awesome. And if it's done in 0:24:49.352 --> 0:24:52.952 a sleazy way, it's like extra sleazy LMS actually do 0:24:52.952 --> 0:24:57.032 Bayesian reasoning when given enough examples. Explanations need a purpose. 0:24:57.071 --> 0:25:01.071 I really love that paper. Grammarly is acquiring the email 0:25:01.071 --> 0:25:04.312 app superhuman, which is another of my favorite apps to 0:25:04.352 --> 0:25:10.232 become part of an AI production platform. Technology US job 0:25:10.232 --> 0:25:13.752 market has split into two distinct economies. White collar workers 0:25:13.992 --> 0:25:17.432 are facing like nasty hiring freezes, and blue collar and 0:25:17.432 --> 0:25:22.952 service workers have historically low unemployment rates. That is just 0:25:22.952 --> 0:25:26.192 hilarious to me. Complete opposite of what everyone thought. Google's 0:25:26.192 --> 0:25:32.111 data center electricity use doubled now equals Ireland's total consumption. 0:25:33.071 --> 0:25:39.042 Google's electricity use is the same as Ireland's. somebody built 0:25:39.042 --> 0:25:41.722 a DNS service that tracks the ES location in real 0:25:41.762 --> 0:25:46.922 time using DNS. Microsoft lays off 9000 more employees include 0:25:47.762 --> 0:25:53.561 include her with the including major Xbox cuts. Yeah a 0:25:53.561 --> 0:25:59.162 lot in Xbox division. Not sure why that is. Not 0:25:59.162 --> 0:26:02.162 watching that space too closely, but 9000 jobs? That's 4% 0:26:02.162 --> 0:26:07.282 of the workforce. Humans RFCs. Junior health department calls nature 0:26:07.321 --> 0:26:13.282 junk science Stratus Covid variant gets W.H.O. attention I think 0:26:13.282 --> 0:26:15.562 this one is like a dry, itchy throat is like 0:26:15.561 --> 0:26:20.042 one of the symptoms. Research shows chasing hobbies over achievement 0:26:20.042 --> 0:26:23.401 actually makes people happier, new study finds. Cool people are 0:26:23.402 --> 0:26:28.562 just emotionally stable with good social skills. Teen drivers spent 21% 0:26:28.561 --> 0:26:31.522 of time looking at their phones despite knowing the risks. 0:26:32.802 --> 0:26:37.242 Can't wait for automated driving And this cool thing called 0:26:37.242 --> 0:26:39.402 the spoken word is hinge of history. I would say 0:26:39.402 --> 0:26:42.522 check that one out. Discovery. Okay, a few things from 0:26:42.522 --> 0:26:45.842 Joan Westerberg how to become a creator monk. This thing 0:26:45.842 --> 0:26:49.882 was insanely good. Engineer shows how AI actually fits into 0:26:49.882 --> 0:26:54.682 real development work. Using O3 to profile profile yourself from 0:26:54.682 --> 0:26:57.682 your saved links actually works. So they did this to 0:26:57.722 --> 0:27:00.962 actually pull out their, um, pocket links because pocket, I think, 0:27:01.002 --> 0:27:05.042 died yesterday or today or last week or something. Pocket 0:27:05.082 --> 0:27:09.562 is basically turned off because it was, uh, Mozilla project 0:27:09.561 --> 0:27:13.042 and they're basically focusing on fewer things. So they turned 0:27:13.082 --> 0:27:17.682 off pocket. Quite sad. Which reminds me, I actually have 0:27:17.682 --> 0:27:22.002 to update that workflow, that pocket to save things. Um, 0:27:22.002 --> 0:27:26.522 on the phone. Don't think about that. Finish reading, finish reading, 0:27:27.882 --> 0:27:30.882 uncertain future of coding careers and why I'm still helpful. 0:27:32.122 --> 0:27:35.772 Awesome collection of cloud code commands and workflows. Orwell predicted 0:27:35.772 --> 0:27:41.812 AI generated content in 1984 with his Versificator machine, and 0:27:41.811 --> 0:27:45.972 this is a piece by Simon Willison who's great in 0:27:45.972 --> 0:27:50.852 the developer AI space, and the machine created songs and 0:27:50.852 --> 0:27:56.252 literature mechanically predicting generative AI decades before its advent. Developer 0:27:56.292 --> 0:27:59.492 goes from 1000 lines of Neovim config to just 11. 0:28:00.332 --> 0:28:03.972 This is something Vitali did stripped entire Neovim setup down 0:28:03.972 --> 0:28:07.532 to 11 lines with zero plugins. I wouldn't go that far. Vitaly, 0:28:07.571 --> 0:28:11.212 I think you went overboard there. Although it was a 0:28:11.212 --> 0:28:14.132 really good post and it inspired me, but not enough 0:28:14.132 --> 0:28:21.132 to get to 11 lines. Check mine real quick. WC 0:28:21.172 --> 0:28:26.932 switch l tilde dot. Oh, nevermind. Somewhat neovim I was 0:28:26.932 --> 0:28:31.091 thinking zsh. Yeah, definitely not doing it with neovim. Oh 0:28:31.092 --> 0:28:34.382 my goodness. Cult of hard mode. Another great one from Westenberg. 0:28:35.022 --> 0:28:38.302 This one is about not overrotating on tools. This is 0:28:38.302 --> 0:28:40.182 one of my favorites actually, that she did and I 0:28:40.182 --> 0:28:46.022 got a link to the video. Okay, this is the 0:28:46.022 --> 0:28:48.062 end of the standard edition of the podcast, which includes 0:28:48.062 --> 0:28:50.022 just the news items for the week to get the 0:28:50.022 --> 0:28:52.862 rest of the episode, which includes much more of my analysis, 0:28:52.902 --> 0:28:56.022 the ideas section, and the weekly member essay. 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