This is uninteresting to me given he has a significant financial interest in keeping AI research going full steam ahead.

The evidence seems to be on his side, at least. RSI, ASI, AGI are all no-shows.

his takes are at least better than Ai doomerism from the 3-4 companies seeking regulatory capture in the face of open weights

says we should apply existing laws to the recent events so we can see where there may be gaps to fill

they also talk about his support for the CA billionaire's tax

(in the full interview video version)

Inertia. It's extremely hard to build a network product and even moreso to dethrone the dominant player in the space

If an agent under a company’s control commits a crime, the company has committed that crime. If we hold companies directly responsible for the actions of their agents, we may end up seeing companies being more secure with their testing and model development.

Best case scenario they’ll try to monetize the site. Worse case it’s a malware distribution play (can eventually change legit repo link to malicious repo)

So this is a landing page made by someone who doesn’t maintain the actual tool? This strikes me as a potential scam—build some domain rep off someone else’s tool then capitalize somehow

So you’re giving it about a 10% chance this destroys us in the relatively near term?

Yup. If "near term" is "about half a lifetime".

Doomers think I'm a ridiculous optimist, people who think "doomer" is a slur think I'm a ridiculous pessimist.

For comparison, if you take the general form of the Carter (et al) Doomsday argument, there'd be a 33% or so chance of global thermonuclear war in the same period even without AI:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument

How "hopeful" that is, is up to you. I mean, unless AI's sufficiently advanced technology (AKA magic) turns out to be able to solve entropy as well as aging, we're all doomed eventually, it's just when, and 10% chance over 40 years isn't a risk I worry about in itself.

I had to programmatically generate PPT files a while back. Don’t recommend. Maybe better with LLMs now

Verbatim AI responses to my PR review comments drive me up a wall

> I dreamed of doing something significant and never wanted kids

This wasn’t a sentiment I took away from the post

No, but the conflict between significance and kids, a variant of the opportunity cost of being a parent, was clearly there.

Hits hard. I know this is wrong, but I often find myself resentful when I see colleagues burning the midnight oil (or otherwise putting in time that I no longer have) in service of career progression.

I think the author is spot on about ruthlessly optimizing the time you do have, though. That seems to be the only way to keep up.

> I often find myself resentful when I see colleagues burning the midnight oil

I don't care, especially with AI. I just let it do all the work and I take credit. Plus career progression after a certain point is useless - more responsibilities for smaller increases in paycheck. I found that being a senior developer is the sweet spot for me - others have to think about the product and requirements and communicate and I just sit autistically in the corner and ship at my own pace.

these people have ai too. AI increases competition amongst the ambitious, so it doesn't solve the problem