I think this is a massively good step forward.

However, TikTok is still a brain rot slop machine and we would be right to question Ellison's motivations.

Any idea where these copycat devs are from?

It seems to be all over. Some of them look like this is not the only app they copy on the App Store.

This is cool - but I'm still highly skeptical of tools like this actually working at scale.

Have you done any substantive user studies to actually measure how effective this tool is vs not using an "ai tool" to learn?

Noobs using MCP as ai tools get more powerful is going to get really interesting. Incredible that we're already seeing malware that prompts Claude to find things on a host.

Boomer AI advice lmao.

All joking aside, even as an ai dev who's skeptic as to what damages or "good" AI will do to the American workforce - I think this is a bit overblown.

This is incredibly sad and also does not bode well for the future deployment of these tools.

Eventually even software engineers will wake up to the reality that these tools destroy lives and destabilize or wreck entire careers. These companies do not care about you at all.

I love how W.G. still reads well to this day. Have so many good memories as an early teen ripping through his work as fast as I could. Enjoyed every single page.

The oracle AI win was definitely something I didn't see coming

Me too. Especially since their Marketing approach (lower cost, lower frills) is so different than their strategy elsewhere.

Frankly, I've never really felt like "deep thinking" gave me more value from an LLM. Usually seems to get more roundabout information and take longer.

How would you recommend software engineers looking for work contact you to stand out?

I think this is the biggest challenge for most engineers looking for work right now.