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Thorsten Ball

What Thorsten Ball thinks about innovation

@thorsten-ball · 70 positions · 2 changes of mind · On ppll ↗

Co-founder of Amp and co-host of the Raising an Agent podcast. Wrote Writing an Interpreter in Go.

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  1. Our readingViews about AI models formed 4-6 months ago should be reconsidered.

    Their wordsTo repeat: reconsider everything you thought about these models 4-6 months ago.

    ↗@thorstenball on Xx.com

  2. 12 days earlier

  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 developmentthorstenball.com 7th of 15 in this piece

  5. Our readingIt will take a generation for new software to replace old software, and people will still be employed writing code in 10 years.

    Their wordsIt’ll take a generation for the “new software” to replace the “old software”. Just like there are people happily employed as ASP developers today, there will be people employed to write code in 10 years.

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