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Chip Huyen: Building when it feels like there's nothing left to build - The Pragmatic Summit

Chip Huyen · 20m · youtube.com

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    I feel like now I can build anything I want. But at the same time, anyone can build anything I want. So, what is the incentive structure for me to do anything?
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    if you can describe a style, AI can generate it. And the same with software. If you can describe a software, then AI can build it for you.
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    And the more you build, right? The more you put things out there, you remove the need for imagination. You can say, "Okay, now I like that website. Do that for me."
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    The product you build is just solving a problem. So, is that like is the more you do that, the better you become at problem solving. And one thing I do believe that it will never change that there will always be problems to solve.
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    So, I think of them as the top of the long long tail long tail problem. Like, something very common issues that a lot of people experience. AI will get really good at it. And over time AI will cover more more edge cases, but the edge cases will never go away.
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    Like if it's a big problem, like everyone can see, then all these big companies will get into it. But whereas it's like there are a lot of problems that's like smaller, then maybe OpenAI won't be motivated to solve it, but maybe I can like all a lot of people can.
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    I don't think that human preference is just an equation that people can just like package nicely and like, "Hey, ask people like which which of these two answers people would prefer?" It's very very personal, very culturally dependent, geographically dependent, age dependent.
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    But in Vietnam and also in a lot of other Asian countries, people are on the move all the time. Like people are on the motorbike all the time. So, they actually really don't like typing. So, the voice like a lot of the companies in Vietnam actually deploy voice bots before they do uh do chatbot.
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    So, I I think there's a lot of things we still try to imagine. What would be an AI-driven world look like, right? I think people are trying to like retrofit what already exists to fit what they think is a new workflow.
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    So, I think that the whole workflow of like reviewing code is very outdated. Like, I don't think the I think that the senior member, instead of like giving feedback on the code, they should be giving feedback on like how you give instruction to AI to produce better.
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    You cannot just reverse that, right? It's just not working. So, I do think that we need to build out the whole guardrails for the reversibility of actions because that actually where things get really really scary.
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    Like I I write books and as much I wish that books as a format will be like will survive. I do think that people don't read books the same way anymore.
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    And I feel like it's a very human way of doing web search, right? Because we enter things in the Google and we see all the like citations, the quotations part. But like why would we limit AI to that? If AI already visit a page, why don't just pull the entire page out?
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    And the question nowadays is less about like how to build because if you can describe the problem in the solution you want, usually AI can do it. Maybe not today, but maybe like two or three years from now on they can do a lot of those. The question is like what to build because we talk about like yes, if something exists, right? AI can replicate it.