Happy birthday to the BBC In Our Time podcast, 20 years old today (Interconnected)
November 13, 2024
That development time acceleration of 4 days down to 20 minutes… that’s equivalent to about 10 years of Moore’s Law cycles. That is, using generative AI like this is equivalent to computers getting 10 years better overnight.That was a real eye-opening framing for me.
AI isn’t magical, it’s not sentient, it’s not the end of the world nor our saviour; we don’t need to endlessly debate “intelligence” or “reasoning.” It’s just that… computers got 10 years better. The iPhone was first released in 2007. Imagine if it had come out in 1997 instead. We wouldn’t even know what to do with it.
Source: Happy birthday to the BBC In Our Time podcast, 20 years old today (Interconnected)
Over the years Matt Webb has bene one of the most popular speakers at our conferences. He’s spent decades exploring the boundaries of what computing can do. This observation about the value of generative AI for developers strong resonated.
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