Cal Newport

The problem is outside of like demos or internal tools or just having fun.

That's not really code you can trust very well.

And it does, though, completely lower the peaks of being a computer programmer, those peaks of cognition.

It's much, much easier to manage a bunch of cloud code processes than it is to come up with an algorithm.

And then you have that same blank page.

So I think the jury is still out on even where we're going to end up in the AI impact on programming.

I don't know where it's going to end up.

But the way it's being talked about in the last few months after the latest Cloud Code update, which is sort of, I guess that's something humans don't do anymore.

I don't think we're there ready to say that yet.

It's funny, but it's a little bit crazy, but it's my world, right?

I'm a computer scientist, is that for...

engineer computer scientist types they forget how technically advanced they are so yeah cloud code works in the terminal right and that's why it works so well it exists in a world of text only text command line commands like the old dos command line it's all text commands um which you can do a lot with you can create and edit and compile computer programs so it's very good at that and it's a limited set of textual commands that's perfect for a language model um

And the engineers are like, oh, we can use this terminal-based tool to do all sorts of other stuff that's not computer programming.

Great, this is solved.

Everyone's going to be doing this.

Everyone is going to have these sort of personal assistants based on something on cloud code.

I'm like, man, do you realize how foreign...

a command line interface is to people.

You realize like how weird and nerdy and complicated your world is.

You're like, yeah, this will be great.