Codebases are going to start looking like optimized topology 3d prints When AI is better at math than humans it also becomes better at algorithm & codebase design At that point the system and delivering quality software doesn’t require human understanding to exist in the actual code layer. Only needs to be understood by humans at the high level of passing testing, verification, vibe checks and being understandable when queried via AI in the rare case one need to dive deeper.

ChatGPT PM @AarushSelvan describes how AI has upended product management: In the SaaS era, product management was built around mostly deterministic software. With AI, the role is now more about defining what “good” looks like and steering a probabilistic system toward it. “You sort of have to start from scratch a little bit and be comfortable with non-determinism.” “Getting very comfortable with evals and how do we measure progress is something that’s a really important skill.” “No longer can a designer build a weather card or a sports card and be like, ‘This is how it’s going to appear when it triggers,’ because the model can just generate that on the fly.”

it turns out the hardest part of generative UI isn't generating the UI. models have been able to generate good-looking HTML for a while. the more interesting challenge is getting it to feel like it actually belongs in chatgpt. one of our big bets with Intelligent UI was that you didn't have to choose -- that you could keep ~all of the power of HTML and still have it feel fast and native, like it was always part of chat the other half of the problem is model judgement. how do we post-train gpt-6 to know when an interface would actually help? what should it show or let you do? how do we make it useful and beautiful without taking over the conversation? none of this was obvious when we started, and there's plenty we're still figuring out. luckily, one of my favorite things about openai is that if you believe in an idea, you can just go build it, even if it takes a lot of prototypes to get there really excited this is finally out, and incredibly proud of the team. onwards!

Months of effort at the very edge of the discipline/tech from the design team. Chat now natively streams visual responses on the fly. This isn’t pure html, it’s our own genUI syntax. It’s fast, lightweight and designed for everyone. And it’s just the beginning, what happens when your product can begin to design itself?

Using just the human brain and a lot ingenuity we have built machines that can solve problems beyond that brain itself, and it appears there is no reason this won't continue to scale... I understand how we did this, but if you step back it seems like the intellectual version of a perpetual motion machine - it almost shouldn't be possible. The risks are real, the slop is real, but my god we are living at potentially the most remarkable time in human history. 🆒

Last night was the first night I genuinely couldn't sleep because I was so excited to get back to reading an AI-generated proof (of the Grothendieck homotopy hypothesis). Hard not to feel shellshocked, of course, but the feeling of "touching the infinite" is pretty palpable.

Steve is sorely missed in the AI era, he was one of the only real humanist-optimist leaders at the very top of tech and business. It never seemed to be only about winning or money or domination for him (though those things likely played a big role). Remarkably he was a technologist who actually understood culture! Where we end up without him is a colder, dumber and more financialized version of tech. There’s hope, often in design teams and remaining humanist leaders like Jony. I also see *some* of this in the EA movement, but it’s often so intertwined with doom and perceived power seeking, the optimistic vision gets lost. Anyway I’m rambling now - it would have been a gift to have him in this moment.

it just feels inevitable that for most people, the interface to increasingly everything becomes the model - and the fastest, most natural input to that will often be voice. So funny how right Alexa and Siri etc were, just 10 yrs before the underlying tech stack was there.

When I tell people I work on Chat, their reaction is often 'it's so simple, what is there to design' and I actually consider that a huge compliment to the team. "I would have written a shorter letter, but did not have the time." Watching the sheer effort and determination it takes to keep Chat looking simple and feeling clean has been one of the biggest lessons of my career so far.