[Jodavaho.io] — Josh Vander Hook

I use coding agents daily. So far, they are good for first-order effects. Things like “Fast typewriter” (doing something I would do but without interface delays) or “super copy paste” (altering an example and applying it with nuance in several places) or “super tab complete” (suggesting large blocks of text/code vs just single symbols) or even “meta bash” (asking for scripts that do oneoff analysis or processing of a few data sets you have lying around).

This post is a work in progress…

We have enough AI to explain conscioiusness now, and therefore to create an AI that feels “General”.

• AI can generate words from sounds
• GPT is well known to generate narratives and conversations given rough priors
• Something like Dall E to generate mental imagery around those narratives, when required
• Constantly retrained by feeding what we hear (verbally) and what we see (after “object detection”) in a feedback loop, with all of our “story” as well.

The complication is the starting conditions. We are meant to believe that we are magic “conscious” creatures, even though centuries of contemplatives dispute this.