Anish Acharya
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8,262 appearances
20 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 12 Sep
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If you look at coding agents, we were talking about it, like your mental model for two years ago should have been, would have been, I think it should be winner take all.
And yet, quad code, codex, lovable...
Replit, Wabi, like they're all sort of working.
So it's really, really encouraging to see that.
You know, the second thing, you've heard all the kind of economic data, everything from radiologists who are supposed to be cooked every year for, I think, about 20 years now.
And of course, job postings are higher than they've ever been, as well as programmers, you know.
So I don't know that the empirical data bears it out.
I think the final thing is that
there's this sort of discussion about RSI.
And I know RSI is like recursive self-improvement is a fun term to throw around.
But if you ask the most sophisticated individuals at the labs, it's not actually RSI that's occurring, which could lead to some sort of runaway winner because they were an epsilon ahead of the others.
It's autocatalytic effects, which just means you're using the technology to improve your process, but it's not truly recursive.
So
I think everything from the most empirical to the most technical view points in the other direction.
And yet we can't seem to let go of this fantasy.
That's right.
Like the line of reasoning for that case is always everything up until now, then something happens that no one can quite articulate and then fast take off.
So I don't believe that that's going to happen.
I do think that model progress is happening faster than ever before.
But if you look at something like economic diffusion, you know, I grew up in a small town.
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