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What Thorsten Ball thinks about LLMs

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  1. Our readingThe terminal is dead; most developer tooling including shells, text editors and CLIs will be washed away by tokens and no longer used by humans.

    Their wordsThe terminal is dead. Most developer tooling will be washed away by tokens. Shells, text editors, CLI tools won't be used by humans anymore. There's no need to know command line flags and jq invocations anymore.

    ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 6th of 15 in this piece

  3. Our readingTokens are the new computing paradigm on which everything will be remade as computing enters a post-binary era.

    Their wordsTokens are the new computing paradigm. Everything will be re-made on top of it. We've had deterministic computers for 80 years, so we confuse "how computers have worked" with "how computers must work." We're entering the post-binary era.

    ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 7th of 15 in this piece

  5. Our readingSome people will be priced out of producing software for the next few years if they cannot get enough tokens, putting them in a second league.

    Their wordsYes. Some people will be priced out of producing software. Just like only some people could afford a personal computer in the 80s and 90s, for the next few years, if you can't get enough tokens, you're playing second league.

    ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 12th of 15 in this piece

  7. Our readingAI models considered smart today will be considered very dumb in the future, and smarter models make fewer mistakes and need fewer turns.

    Their wordsAnd what we consider a smart model today will be considered very dumb in the future. But a smarter model makes less mistakes, needs fewer turns.

    ↗What I believe about the future of software developmentx.com 13th of 15 in this piece