alt Hacker News> Nobody at this point disagrees we’re going to achieve AGI this century.
Nobody. Nobody disagrees, there is zero disagreement, there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
> 100% of today’s SWE tasks are done by the models.
Thank God, maybe I can go lie in the sun then instead of having to solve everyone's problems with ancient tech that I wonder why humanity is even still using.
Oh, no? I'm still untying corporate Gordian knots?
> There is no reason why a developer at a large enterprise should not be adopting Claude Code as quickly as an individual developer or developer at a startup.
My company tried this, then quickly stopped: $$$
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> Nobody disagrees, there is zero disagreement, there is no war in Ba Sing Se.
This captures my chief irk over these sorts of "interviews" and AI boosterism quite nicely.
Assume they're being 100% honest that they genuinely believe nobody disagrees with their statement. That leaves one of two possible outcomes:
1) They have not ingested data from beyond their narrow echo chamber that could challenge their perceptions, revealing an irresponsible, nay, negligent amount of ignorance for people in positions of authority or power
OR
2) They do not see their opponents as people.
Like, that's it. They're either ignorant or they view their opposition as subhuman. There is no gray area here, and it's why I get riled up when they're allowed to speak unchallenged at length like this. Genuinely good ideas don't need this much defense, and genuinely useful technologies don't need to be forced down throats.
> My company tried this, then quickly stopped: $$$
How much were devs spending to become a sticking point?
I'm asking because I thought it'd be extremely expensive when it rolled out at the company I work for, we have dashboards tracking expenses averaged per dev in each org layer, the most expensive usage is about US$ 350/month/dev, the average hovers around US$ 30-50.
It's much cheaper than I expected.
Nobody out of people remotely worth listening to. There's always people deeply wrong about things but over 70 years at this point is a pretty insane position unless you have a great reason like expecting Taiwan to get bombed tomorrow and slow down progress.
While I fully agree with your sentiment it’s striking Dario said “this century”. He likely won’t even be alive for about 50%, assuming he lives to 80, of his prediction window. It’s such a remarkably meaningless comment.
> We pay humans upwards of $50 trillion in wages because they’re useful, even though in principle it would be much easier to integrate AIs into the economy than it is to hire humans
Can someone explain to me what AGI means? What is the concrete technical definition? How do we know it is achieved?
> 100% of today’s SWE tasks are done by the models.
Meanwhile, Claude Code is implemented using a React-like framework and has 6000 open issues, many of which are utterly trivial to fix.
I’m honestly trying to understand the state of the art and unfortunately the industry is so grifty it’s hard to tell…
Can I ask what happened with your Claude Code rollout?
Can you please make your substantive points without snark? We're trying for a quite different kind of discussion here. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
You may not owe AGI enthusiasts better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.