Software in the Era of Ai
Daily-Weekly “Best Ofs’ are usually in NOTES area of Substack but this one is too large so it’s a Post.
I’m usually posting these “Best Of” daily personal “Finds” in Substack Notes (short posts - “Activity Feed”). I access it under my photo profile…maybe it just “comes up for you”. In any case, this one had too many photos or the video was too long and kept failing to post in the Notes area……so I’m posting it here. It’s too good to not store here on Substack and share the info.
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One of the best things I’ve seen today. It's a 40 min video but if you want to learn about the state of AI - invest your 40 minutes
I learn by taking notes while watching speakers...so I’m sharing my personal notes here as well.
Software History
"Software hasn't changed much at a fundamental level in 70 years....and then it's changed twice quite rapidly in the last few years"
Software 1.0 = computer code
Software 2.0 = "neural network weights"
Software 3.0 = Prompts that program the LLM (written in english - an interesting new programming language - English!)
Software is eating the world....Software 2.0 is eating Software 1.0
"How to think about LLM's"
"Ai is the new electricity"
LLM's have properties of Utilities
LLM's have properties of Fabs"
LLM's are Operating Systems
"Billions of People now have access to programming....it's our time to program them"
LLM's
Encyclopedic knowledge/memory
LLM's are Rain Man (movie)
But they still Hallucinate; And have jagged intelligence
Still no continual learning..no equivalent of "sleep learning" for humans...only has "working memory"
LLM's are Memento (Chris Nolan movie) context window gets wiped every session
Andrej was the one who named 'vibe coding' in a tweet…only 4 months ago Feb 2, 2025. It’s now a cultural meme!
There’s hope for the world and it will come from our younger generation (it always does). Kids today will be ‘vibe coding natives’….and they will just grow up speaking or typing to a computer to create things. Powerful to think about
Here’s the video again
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!