Armin Ronacher

Their wordsthe models that are actually causing issues right now are all closed weight American models. I’m fairly certain if they were open weight models, we would not have that issue.

Their wordsA powerful technology that is out there for everyone to use comes with built-in pacing. In a way it’s the truest form of MAD or proliferation.

Their wordsI don’t think AI is going to usher in an extinction event. In fact, even if nobody were to slow down, I really don’t think humanity would have much to worry about.

Their wordsMaybe I just read too much AI text now vs before, but I really feel like the model's ability to produce text I actually want to read and understand went downhill with newer releases.

Their wordsif you rely on an LLM to give your text structure, it will score badly on Pangram even if you do plenty of edits over it.

Their wordsIt’s not very hard to make an agent somewhat durable. It’s surprisingly hard to make an agent harness inherently durable and not turn into a crazy mess.

Their wordsCrucially what is important for us, is that there is a dividing line between the harness brain and the target environment that runs bash and executes the tools.

Their wordsHot take for agents: there are situations were VMs work great, there are situations where sandboxes work great, there are situations where a durable object is all you need, and there are situations where you just need a javascript interpreter.

Their wordsmost harnesses need some pruning on compaction anyways for cost reasons which Jev might help with

Their wordsThe claude hack of adding everything to git and then diffing it is definitely an option but very heavy handed :-/

Their wordsBut what really annoys me about the German speaking world is that the default behavior is to defend every stupid damn rule.

Their wordsThe German/Austrian mindset however is to defend every rule. As a result, we're accumulating more and more rules.

Their wordsI think a healthy attitude in life is to look at a rule, assume it was made for a reason, but to always default to getting rid of it (situation might have changed).

Their wordsAustria was late 30 years with mass car ownership, 15 years with modern water infrastructure, 7 years for railways, 16 years for electric trams, 12 years late for diesel railways and 40 years with electric city lights. Just to set the expectations vis-a-vis AI here :)

Their wordsDo I program any faster? Not really. But it feels like I’ve gained 30% more time in my day because the machine is doing the work.

Their wordsNow that agents are this good, Rust developers should stop being afraid of unsafe.

Their wordsnot only can you build a game with kids with AI, you can also have the agent maintain kids friendly interactive documentation along the way that explains how it works, linked up to the actual game code.

Their wordsSo far we haven't really slowed down with what these models do and I don't think it's going to stop right now.

Their wordsI wouldn't be totally surprised if the terminal hangs around for coding agents and programmers longer than we all think.