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5 years ago a person would be blown away by today’s LLMs. But people today will merely say “cool” at whatever LLMs are in use 5 years from now. Or maybe not even that.





Most of the developers I know personally who have been radicalized by coding agents, it happened within the past 9 months. It does not feel like we are in a phase of predictable boring improvement.

Radicalized? Going with the flow and wishes of the people who are driving AI is the opposite of that.

To have their minds changed drastically, sure..


Sorry I have no idea what you're trying to say here.

> very different from the usual or traditional

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/radical

Deciding that AI is going nowhere to suddenly deciding that coding agents are how they will work going forward is a radical change. That is what they meant.



Can you explain exactly what you meant by your second paragraph? The ambiguity is why you got that reply.

If your second paragraph makes that reply irrelevant, are you saying the meaning was "Your use of 'radicalized' is technically correct but I still think you shouldn't have used it here"?


5 years ago GPT2 was already outputting largely coherent speech, there's been progress but it's not all that shocking

Bold prediction…



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