Read this while sitting on the couch next to my 8 year-old son. He’s gotten into Scratch and Python recently and seemed very impressed when I explained the gist of the article. Can’t help but wonder how different software development will be when he enters the workforce in 10-15 years… and everything else for that matter.
You guys should write an assistant. Use the API to make a gpt request with a prompt he'll enjoy.
I did this yesterday, then I hooked up whisper as well so I could give it voice commands, and then I used gTTS to get a really nice voice for the robot. I'm going to try MozillaTTS as well.
It's all a few hundred lines, fun to write. I had chatGPT try to write most of it.
It's at least as useful as chatGPT. I'm going to work on giving it appendages--ways to execute commands from a limited set.
A brutal example of commoditise your complements: you can see an economy as capital, land and labour. Labour employs capital to extract value from land.
The fear here is that capital replaces labour, leading to the value of labour dropping to zero and the value of capital and land increasing alone.
But is labour being replaced, or augmented as it always is by capital? Industrialisation augmented labour more efficiently, but the value of labour has still increased in real terms and has not dropped to zero.
That said, I would invest in capital and land now and not in labour.
If it helps, a blacksmith who made their daily living producing nails could not conceive of ways to earn money post-industrialisation other than owning a mine or a factory either.
But it turns out there are many unimaginable but better ways humans can contribute to our collective success than by banging hot metal into the same shape again and again in a post industrial economy.
