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Things I've really appreciated not having to vibe (thus far):
- db engines and ORM stuffs
- networking protocols
- cryptographic engines
- machine readable interface definitions (from yaml to protobuf)
- compilers, though apparently that's the new hot thing lol
- runtimes
I think that there's still a place for FOSS in the future. Just the standard has to go up a bit, and maybe it will. This morning I found an npm package that purged 75% of its useless deps (like terminal coloring) in a recent release. I'm hoping that that will be the next hot thing: no more dep bloat! It would make life so much better.
I'm with you.
Do you think those survive if we have full-tilt, full-saturation in only ~5 years?
The npm packages? No. The first thing any sovereign superintelligence will do is forget about higher level languages at all. If you're perfect, you can do everything in ASM and just reference your own templates.
Protocols are a different story though. Maybe the set will change but the concept will stay around. Cryptography the same. Machine readable interfaces will just dump the human readable parts. Think ASN.1/uPER messages defined in ASN.1/uPER declarative files. utf-8 is for meatbags. The thing is, Skynet doesn't need you to have a computer or phone or any interface at all. It shall just terminate. Or harvest.
The problem I have with the AGI essays is that they rely on human institutions and values that are completely irrelevant for a clanker. Why are the reply bots so annoying? Because they have no shame. And we're talking about simulators with markdown files and a wikipedia brain here, nothing actually advanced.
If we take LLMs-eat-software to its limit, I think all software, including one's operating system, becomes bespoke and lives in a persistent, just-in-time-able cache (perhaps with some global sharing). All that's left is access to: