I can be massively more ambitious when coding with AI, but most importantly I have zero emotional investment in the code so I can throw it away and start again whenever I want.
I don't know a lot about 3D modeling, but I can see that the objects created by this AI are way too high poly, which would be bad for performance if used e.g. in a game. But it still looks like a great prototyping tool to me, especially if you want to express an idea in your head to an actual 3D designer, in the same way UX designers can show a prototype to developers with Claude code now, instead of trying to repro an idea with Figma.
I don't agree with the author. Where is the part about nondeterminism and hallucinations? Drawing a pretty chart doesn't make the argument true. All these benchmarks and competitions are on problems that have a _right answer_. I write most my code entirely through Claude at work and have Claude Max for personal, and I can see every day that even with the right context, it's not certain that the model is going to converge to a decent answer on complex real life issues. At least one thing I do agree on: model growth is not an exponential, like everyone thought when we were on the first leg of it, but a logarithmic.
I hope that they are going to put something in Claude Code to display if you're entering the expensive window. Sometime I just keep the conversation going. I wouldn't want that to burn my Max credits 2x faster.
Yeah, that 1 MM tokens is a $15 (IIRC) API call. That's gonna add up quick! My favorite hypothetical AI failure scenario is that LLM agents eventually achieve human level general intelligence, but have to burn so many tokens to do it that they actually become more expensive than a human.
Have it generate the code. Then have another instance criticize the code and say how it could be improved and why. Then ask questions to this instance about things you don't know or understand. Ask for links. Read the links. Take notes. Internalize.
One day I was fighting Claude on some core Ruby method and it was not agreeing with me about it, so I went to check the actual docs. It was right. I have been using Ruby since 2009.
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