I tend to agree with Albert Einstein below; there's a very physical/spatial aspect to my problem solving before it can be translated to words. I work in software so there's nothing innately physical about it. Never put much thought to it until LLMs brought it up for debate.

"The words of the language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The psychical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images which can be "voluntarily" reproduced and combined....From a psychological viewpoint this combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought....The...elements are, in my case, of visual and some of muscular type. Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a secondary stage, when the mentioned associative play is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will."

I love marginal revolution. But I'm not fond of the unit stated. I dont believe we're buying intelligence. I'm sure marketing will run with it though.

I have been searching for a good term or name for what we are actually buying. A "probabilistic search for a reasoning chain through a semantic space" is about as close as I've gotten and I have a feeling it's not exactly accurate either.

"Plausibility"

This company is not treating agent code generation as if it's out in the open. Why in the world would you work like this? It has nothing to do with management. If your coworker is just going to do agent review just share the fucking prompt and do it yourself like you would with any other tool. Jesus fucking christ.

Bro this timeline makes no sense. Repeating instruction to a data center of geniuses.

Djinniuses

They are only good at brute forcing stastically likely solutions.

Taste and smell still apply. You have to know the art and have comparative priors in order to judge the output.

Yep great point, it works both ways. It can dig you a hole faster, but also help you get out of it with less effort.

I'm sure Facebook will allow agents to post any day now...

Agentic commerce will never work for the same reason I can't build a Twitter client. Technically it's possible but the incentives are all wrong.