Ben Cohen

I mean, this was like two minutes after we were talking about this.

And then eventually we brought in some actual humans who know how to write code at the Wall Street Journal to... To fix our code.

Yeah.

Here's our colleague Ben again.

This is also like a really instructive example.

Like code might get you 90% of the way there, but for that 10%, humans are not just valuable, but kind of essential, right?

Like this whole thing doesn't happen without that last 10%.

A year ago, 10% of his code was coming from cloud code.

Six months ago, 50% of his code was coming from cloud code.

Now, over the past two months, he has not written a single line of code by hand himself.

100% of his code is coming from cloud code.

His little team of agents.

There's something...

crazy and also profound about this, which is that he is no longer a coder.

He is a manager of like this fleet of robot coders that are working on his behalf.

It's clear that there are certain professions and occupations where people are going to be able to take advantage of this, and the implications of that are very uncertain right now.

What the productivity implications are, what the workforce displacement implications are, I don't think we really know what they're going to be yet.

What we do know is that there are fields where this is coming if it's not already here.

And the thing that is both thrilling and like deeply terrifying, as Joanna has written many times over the past few years, this is the worst and dumbest that these AI models are ever going to be, right?

Like what we are playing with now is only going to get better in the days and weeks and especially months and years to come.