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Genies are being designed as a RoboGym for the mind.
Button labelled "Lift." Weight goes up. Down. A counter tells you how many joules you burned.
That's not a workout.
I love that my genie does my toil — reformatting, boilerplate, drudgery. It teaches me nothing.
The struggle is different. Three hours on a train proving a theorem I knew was true changed who I was.
Let the genie carry the toil. Leave me my struggle. I need it. More in my newsletter.
Button labelled "Lift." Weight goes up. Down. A counter tells you how many joules you burned.
That's not a workout.
I love that my genie does my toil — reformatting, boilerplate, drudgery. It teaches me nothing.
The struggle is different. Three hours on a train proving a theorem I knew was true changed who I was.
Let the genie carry the toil. Leave me my struggle. I need it. More in my newsletter.
It's been interesting watching mathematicians saying, "We prove theorems. The genie proves theorems better. Who are we now?" Programmers wen't through the same thing 2 years ago--we code, the genie codes better (for some definition of better), who are we now?
So glad to be part of this. Building trust while we build code is the inner loop of our future.
🚀 Announcing ByteByteGo Live: learn AI live from real builders.
I’ve spent the past 8 years on education: thousands of hours writing books, deep dive newsletters, YouTube, etc.
Two issues I keep seeing are: 1) it’s very different to learn from real builders. 2) most online courses never get finished (~4% completion).
Over the past 12 months, we’ve been working on what we can do to change that.
Today, I’m excited to announce ByteByteGo Live: live cohort courses taught by real builders.
- Taught by real builders. Our instructors include very senior engineers from Google, Meta, etc., as well as @KentBeck , the creator of TDD. They teach what they use in their own work.
- Live cohorts. Every course runs live with a group of people, and instructors answer your questions in real time.
The current lineup:
- AI Engineering Fundamentals
- Build with Claude Code
- Build Production Grade AI Systems
- Rebuild YouTube with AI
- AI Evals in Practice
- AI Cost Optimization
- Trust-optimized AI Development
We have big plans for the year ahead: more courses, more instructors, and deeper hands on projects.
Check out go.bytebytego.com/live-launch-x and let us know what you think.View quoted post on X
I think Dwarkesh's language in this piece is a reflection of his understanding of the human experience.
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.View quoted post on X
This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.
All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.
I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.
Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:
dwarkesh.com/p/openai-huggi…
