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When AI builds itself - Anthropic
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I get the criticism and resistance to AI, but its a fact that software is critical to modern life. What is happening to the cost and pace of software output now is revolutionary not evolutionary. This is a well-written explanation, with interesting evidence, of the implications this has on the pace of change in fields where software matters. It mirrors my own experience; AI does not eliminate bottlenecks, it moves them, and it is not well suited to solve those new bottlenecks - like judgment.
This article in the Economist gets to a layer of AI discourse that seems completely absent. Workers by the thousands are using AI to file administrative claims against their employers in Britain, putting a previously overly burdensome legal remedy in their hands. Sorry for the paywall, but this is worth a read.