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unless someone shows their threads of prompts or an unedited stream of them working, it's pointless to put any weight into their opinions.

this is such an individualized technology that two people at the same starting point two years ago, could've developed wildly different workflows.

Typing isn't what makes programming fun.

AI coding preserves flow more than legacy coding. You never have to go read documentation for an hour. You can continuously code.

if we mobilized a whole-of-society effort to build millions of rocket engines and fired them year round, it'd only take a few hundred years to get this done

The human mind is the product of a brutal optimization function over a billion years old. That process of optimization has extended into the operation of the human mind itself. The human mind itself is an optimization machine. It can always imagine a better way to do things. Don't let the fact that there is a better way to do a thing stop you from doing the thing. There is always a better way.

If we assume alien life in the universe is predatory and seeks to consume other life forms, and since the universe allows detection from other species over infinite distances and time scales, we would expect life in the universe to either be totally undetectable or else be consumed by life that is totally undetectable.

The real single reason for which I believe that all this will come tumbling down is cause of the fact that all this is falsely hyped as being something better than its predecessors but in reality it is not.

How so? If you're saying that this is the one single reason, then you have to support it with evidence.

If you understand human minds through the perspective of electricity flowing through branching webs of neurons, it helps you understand why different people have different methods of communication.

Some people's neurons are organized such that topics of information are tightly bound without reaching too far into adjacent topics.

Other people's neurons are broadly organized with topics of information overlapping.

Neither method of organization is superior. They each have pros and cons.

Tightly organized minds are efficient at particular tasks and can delve deeply into any particular area of knowledge, but are more rigid and less able to cope with new situations.

Loosely organized minds are less efficient and their knowledge is more superficial, but they're able to be flexible in the face of new situations and more apt to generate novel ideas to solve problems.

You already can render markdown. It shows as what it is: text.

If you want to render markdown as something else, you need to define what that other thing is. If you're suggesting we render it as a webpage, well webpages are made of HTML and CSS--so you're saying you want to render markdown as HTML/CSS.

We can already do that. There are a plethora of tools available to do that.

How could it be possible to encapsulate the perfect optimization of all possible processes in "a few blog posts" or "a couple hours" ?

Do you use the shadowy currency popular with criminals known as the US dollar?

USD is by far the most popular currency used for crime. It has stable price, accepted everywhere, and lacks a public ledger.