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Writes The Pragmatic Engineer, the software-engineering newsletter, and wrote The Software Engineer's Guidebook. Formerly an engineering manager at Uber, and at Microsoft/Skype and Skyscanner before that.

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  AI agents are reducing human-to-human interaction via code

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  They sure feel they are reducing human-to-human interaction via the code, I'll be honest

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Sequoia Professor of Computer Science at Stanford, co-director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and co-founder and CEO of World Labs.

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  Intelligence is not sitting still and interpreting what you see; it is closing the loop between seeing, experiencing and interacting.

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  I think for me, let's go back to the first principle of intelligence. Intelligence is not sitting there stuck and just seeing something or interpreting something when it comes to space and physical space, right? It's really this uh closing the loop between seeing and experiencing and interaction.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Liberals and conservatives should work together, and that is easier when colleagues leave their political differences out of it.

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  So I actually think liberals and conservatives should work together. I think the country would be much worse off if there's a complete separation between the tribes, and then there can't be any overlap or interaction. And I think that mingling is so much easier to do if you just don't focus on your differences all the time. Focus on what you like together.

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Canadian bootstrapper and writer on small software businesses. Co-founder of the podcast hosting company Transistor.fm and author of the book Marketing for Developers.

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  Face-to-face interaction conveys understanding and empathy that text-based communication does not.

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  In person, it's easier to grok where someone's coming from. It's simpler to see how they're feeling.

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Writer and former Substack product manager; publishes essays and interviews on technology, culture and China at jasmi.news.

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  As AI makes generating written and video content nearly free, live interaction with a real creator will become more valuable than static content.

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  I think the value of static content will go down, and the value of live interaction will go up.

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Software design writer and chief scientist at Thoughtworks; wrote Refactoring and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture.

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  Predictions that nobody will write code soon dodge the question of what code is: prompting a model is still producing something we will have to read and change.

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  I go to myself, "Well, yeah, but what do you mean by code?" Because that kind of implies nobody's writing anything. Well, we're at least doing some prompting. We're having some interaction with the genie. What's that going to be if it's not some form of code in some way? I think the nature of what code is is going to be quite possibly for a very radically different. But I think there is still a need to produce it and be able to interact with it in some way.

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Programmer; wrote Extreme Programming Explained and Test-Driven Development, signed the Agile Manifesto, and writes Tidy First?.

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  Agents are driving a re-soloing of programming, undoing the safe social environment that extreme programming built for people who are not naturally social.

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  So, I see a a big trend is the re-soloing of programming. Where a big part of extreme programming is creating a safe social environment for basically antisocial people. Not just asocial, antisocial. And the when I think about the degree of interaction on an XP team, people aren't talking to each other hours a day and happy to be doing so because it's set up for that to be a positive experience.

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American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.

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  Other players must be present in an online world but never compulsory: forcing interaction is what kept MMOs small, and letting people play alone is what made World of Warcraft enormous.

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  And what makes an MMO, massively multiplayer online game, massive is having the other people there. And they’re so important or else the world feels kind of wrong and dead. But the concept that we have to force you to interact with them to do anything is very off-putting to a lot of people.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop

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  A very good and readable book on this interaction, with excellent discussions of Donna Summer, Stevie Wonder, La Monte Young, and Penderecki, among many others.

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Swiss full-stack developer working mostly with Laravel and Vue; author of the widely used git-auto-commit-action GitHub Action.

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  Things 3

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  My favourite to-do app out there. Beautiful visual and interaction design. Adding and moving tasks and projects around is always a delight.

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Creator of the Keras deep-learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark.

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  Current AI evaluation of world models is too narrow, favoring static representations learned from massive datasets over efficient learning through interaction

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  However, current understanding and evaluation of world models in artificial intelligence (AI) remains narrow, often focusing on static representations learned from training on massive corpora of data, instead of the efficiency and efficacy in learning these representations through interaction and exploration within a novel environment.

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Economist at George Mason University, co-author of Marginal Revolution, host of Conversations with Tyler. Writes in short, dense claims about economics, culture and AI, and has moved position on AI in public more than once.

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  Milton Friedman's chief intellectual flaw was wanting to make economics too simple.

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  And indeed overall that interaction fits with my more general reservation about Friedman: he wanted to make economics just a little bit too simple.

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Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.

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  AI is the first new user-interface paradigm in sixty years: intent-based outcome specification, where the user says what outcome they want rather than how to get it.

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  The third UI paradigm, represented by current generative AI, is intent-based outcome specification. The user tells the computer the desired result but does not specify how this outcome should be accomplished, such as the steps to be executed. Compared to traditional command-based interaction design, this completely reverses the locus of control.

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