Oly Sourbut

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Future of Life Institute Podcast · How AI Can Help Humanity Reason Better (with Oly Sourbut) · 20 Jan 2026 podcast

You can just kind of tab through that and you basically get something that's about right.

It's not the exact thing you were about to write, but like far fewer keystrokes, you know, and you're sped along your way.

That's really useful.

And I've tried a few of these kind of more like full hands-off vibe codey things.

And I've found that I'm sure there's a skill to develop there for me to be able to do that properly.

And I've tended to find the outputs are kind of appealing in certain ways, but they're definitely not the thing I was trying to get at.

And then there's a whole load of effort to kind of refine that.

It's like, no, please do this, please do this.

And that's kind of effortful.

But I'm sure the skilled vibe coders are a little bit better at this.

But there's interesting findings about directions there because

You hear, there's definitely kind of some research which suggests that, and definitely anecdotal evidence, people saying they're being accelerated, you know, 10 or 100 times faster or whatever by use of these coding tools.

And then there's been some research that people's perceived velocity is much improved, but so far their actual velocity isn't.

I absolutely think in principle, and perhaps quite soon, the velocity really will be sped up.

It may even be that we're at that stage already.

But it's interesting that

We're kind of on the cusp there, I think, right now.

And this is a case where, as a coder, the more hands-off you get, potentially the more you're kind of losing access to those kind of low-level drills, which are kind of keeping you in touch with the process.

And I'm sure this is on other disciplines as well, but I'm most familiar with coding in that sense.

Uh, and so, so the same level I was describing with the, you know, within a firm or within a society, you've got the kind of apprentices are kind of losing out because they're not able to kind of gain those skills because those are being delegated out to AI.

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