I agree. It seems clever and it requires that two consoles be physically present to swap games between them. That gives Nintendo players an extra way to share their digital games that other platforms don't have.
This is my favorite building on the planet, not only for its design and architecture but also for what's inside and out.
The plaza in front and the constant buzz of locals and tourists it attracts work exactly as Renzo Piano envisioned: it's a real place that people gather for the purpose of being near a cool building! That's architecture serving the community and adding joy. I love it.
TL;DR: AI summaries and bullet points for everything will change human communication to that format.
The problem with this post is that, despite mentioning programming languages in the title, the examples are about writing emails. The author forgets to address programming at all, which is very much a use case and will remain one as processors only run compiled machine code and not bullet points.
While there is more talk about emails, programming is addressed toward the end: "[…] this will affect computer programming languages as well. Right now I can open a codebase, […]"
I'm not so sure that's a missing point or just an actual point.
I'm not convinced myself AI will have much impact on the developers landscape, beyond better autocompletion and doc generation.
All these fancy AI developers are cute, but we have had the cheaper vs lower quality trade-off available for quite some time now with outsourcing to emerging countries. When I was in my studies, we heard all the predictions of the destruction of software engineers because of outsourcing, the need to become an architect instead of a developer or you'll be replaced, etc.
I've seen none of that happen over the years, except for very low skilled automation / CRUD jobs.
> I'm not convinced myself AI will have much impact on the developers landscape, beyond better autocompletion and doc generation.
I’ve been a developer for 20 years. Using an LLM to generate context-specific prototypes has completely changed my productivity. It has allowed me to start and finish projects that were previously relegated to “maybe someday” (read: never).
It’s not clear what the net result will be in the long run, but it’s already changing what and how I build things, and I’m not nearly as bearish as I was before a few successful projects.
I don’t think AI is going to replace good engineers. It’s going to make good engineers better engineers. This alone will lead to some interesting outcomes I think.
The world is full of unsolved problems and many of them are just time-expensive to fix. Significantly lowering the activation energy and time investment required totally changes the calculus.
I wrote about one concrete use case I built to help me solve a long-standing clutter problem in a comment on another thread [0]. Not only did this unblock a project I'd been trying to get going for awhile (declutter my place), it taught me about Linux Kernel Gadgets and started a cascade of new future project ideas.
It also makes trying harder things lower risk, i.e. I can fail quickly vs. having to spend 20 hours to see if it's worth pursuing.
Setting aside basic productivity, as a high functioning depressed person, activation energy is a huge deal. Having the ability to get an idea to a stage that I can actually see results and work on it is a game changer.
In what way is "I can solve real problems faster than before" analogous or related to companies building frivolous/unnecessary cloud-connected features?
That is not true, see "mental health disorders" which I do suffer from. Me not doing something does not mean it never needed to be done. The opposite is true, too. Something I have done does not mean it had to be done, if that makes sense.
> When I was in my studies, we heard all the predictions of the destruction of software engineers because of outsourcing, the need to become an architect instead of a developer or you'll be replaced, etc.
A lot of low level stuff has been outsourced to India over the last decades, and more if you count second or even third level support (won't even include first level support that's not required to be on-site).
C-levels only see the expenses savings, but how their employees feel about internal support being utter dogshit can't be quantified in a language that beancounters speak...
Appalling. I'm not opposed to gambling and I used to work for the world's largest slot machine company (in non-casino game software) but gambling's reach into everything and its desire to pretend it's something else is truly insidious.
Like John Backus, the inventor of both functional programming and FORTRAN? He invented functional style [0] because of what's wrong with OOPS and its kin.
