markjgsmith

Worldo is basically now just a stream of contradictions, one after the other, as it attempts to offset everyfuckingthing it does using it’s opposite and anytime anything is out of place, even the smallest possible thing in the universe by the smallest possible amount, I am immediately to blame for it all. It sucks. Is everyone having a nice christmas? As long as you are all having a nice Christmas? That’s what’s important after all isn’t it.

I finished the RSS feed generation code rewrite yesterday, which was followed immediately by a massive food goading and a contradiction tsunamis.

Might as well just kill myself. That would be more love than the universe is sending me at the minute. #

Worldo has blocked internet at the internet place. The settings show the device is connected to the Wifi, but the connectivity icon never appears top left of screen, even after multiple Wifi restarts. #

Fixed after restarting vpn. It was displaying as not being activated, yet somehow taping the disconnect button in the app restored the internet connectivity. Stop lying worldo. #

Ran out of build minutes. No more content to the website until the reset in 6 days. #

Duncan Trussell [32:17]: "This is like the beginning of a sci-fi movie. These things are fucking everywhere." #

Adam Frank [21:24]: "We kind of have an idea of who’s average, who’s weird. And our solar system’s weird, because the average planet has a mass between a few times the mass of the earth to maybe 10 times the mass of the earth. And that’s exactly where there are no planets in our solar system." #

Are we alone in the universe?:

Adam Frank [1:05:43]: Unless nature is really against, has some bias against civilisations, we’re not the first time this has happened, this has happened elsewhere over the course of cosmic history.

Lex Fridman: 10 billion trillion experiments?

Adam Frank: Yeah. That’s a lot of experiments.

Lex Fridman: That’s a lot.

Adam Frank: Right.

Replacing SaaS with AI agents

There’s a ton of talk these days about how AI agents are going to affect coding. We’ve all seen how these LLMs can speed up development by producing code rapidly and developers have been successfully increasing their productivity using them as sort of copilots. I think that makes sense. You’re still essentially writting code, and code that actually runs on the server.

But I’ve noticed many on tech podcasts, including the All-In podcast, the This Week in Startups podcast, and Keen and Tear's weekly tech roundup podcast, all talking about how SaaS products will be completely replaced by AI agents. Assuming that it’s technically possible, and I’m not convinced it is, how can this possibly be a good idea? Replacing a deterministic, 100% repeatable, inspectable and debuggable process, with a stochastic probabilistic black box that might suddenly decide to hallucinate or that it just can’t and will instead lie to you. Have we learnt nothing from the thousands of supply chain attacks from the past few years?

Replacing SaaS products with AI agents surely has to be the most unsafe thing you could possibly do. Sure there might be some apps where it won’t matter all that much, but most serious apps require some amount of privacy to be useful, and many could be turned into dangerous products because these AI agents could essentially be increadibly good man in the middle machines.

If you can’t be sure what code is running, then not only can’t you really be sure it’s going to do what you want, but you won’t be able to see what it did when something unnexpected does happen.

Of course as a SaaS developer myself I’m somewhat conflicted on this. I like the idea of rapidly developing some personal tools myself, but I honestly don’t see how they could be useful outside of personal hobby projects. This notion that SaaS will and should be replaced by AI agents is like saying cars should be replaced by Jello.

I will concede that Jello AI is a pretty cool sounding name for a company though.

You think tech is bad now, run by megalomaniac billionaires? That will seem hilariously quaint in a world where AI agents are mediating everything. Not only do AI agents make possible glitches and bugs that we can’t even dream of, but it might make possible ones that we literally can’t even imagine. I’m guessing that likely will not be everyone’s cup of tea. #