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AI Vampires
I resemble this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHQvb10vKyk&t=7982s
So software coding a year ago was you sit there and you write code and then you try to run the code and there's bugs in the code and you have to fix the bugs and it's just whatever and you just have to sit there and do it. By the way, a fundamental challenge every programmer has ever had is code is complicated, and so if you're writing all the code, you gotta have it loaded into your brain of how all this stuff, all these different modules work together, how everything works. And so there's this spin-up process. You have to spend 2 hours refamiliarizing your brain with all the codes, and then you work for 10 hours, and then you spend 2 hours trying to unplug from the thing and get back to normal life. So that's the old model. The new model is you work with a code coding agent or a bot, a coding bot. And these products have names like Claude Code or Cursor or Codex. There's a whole bunch of these. And in this model, it's like working with ChatGPT, but like specifically for code.
And so what you're doing is you're giving the bot an assignment and you're saying, you know, write me the code to do whatever. I want a new level in the video game where people can jump, whatever the thing is. And you give it the assignment and then it goes off 10 minutes, it writes all the code and does its thing. And then it comes back to you like a puppy and it's like, oh, here's the result. And then you then evaluate its result. You run the thing or you look at what it's done. And then you say, oh, that was great. We'll move on to the next project. Or you say, oh, that's not quite right. That's not what I meant. I wanted the jump to be twice as high. I wanted people to be able to bounce off the walls. And then it does it again. And then, so you get in this feedback loop where you're like talking to the bot every 10 minutes. Okay. So then it's like, what do you do during that 10 10-minute break is you open up another pane in your browser window and you create the second bot and you start to give it assignments, right?
Okay. So now you're checking in with 2 bots every 10 minutes, but that still leaves you another, you know, whatever, 9 minutes of free time. So then you create the third bot, the fourth bot, the fifth bot, and the state of the art today in the Valley is 20 bots at a time. And this is what the AI vampires are doing. This is why people can't go to sleep is because you've got 20 AI bots that are all as good as the best programmer in the world that are doing exactly what you tell them to do on every project you've ever wanted to do. And they're running 24/7. And the only thing you have to do is be there every 10 minutes to be able to give them feedback on what they're doing. Oh my God. Right. And so you can imagine how hard it would be to unplug from that. And that's why they're staying up all night. And that's why they're so happy. How much have Adderall sales gone through the roof? Probably a fair— well, because everybody stopped eating and drinking. Probably a lot. Okay. So that's the state of the art today.
What's the obvious next step? The obvious next step is the bots should have bots. Oh boy. Right? Managers, right? You should have managers, right? And so you should have a bot that's overseeing bots. And this is what's starting right now, right? So each bot should be able to itself create subbots, right? And then you have a bot that gives out the assignment to the bots. And so then, and this is just starting right now, but like when we're sitting here, here in a year, I think it's going to be routine to have 10 to 20 bots each that have 10 to 20 bots. Right. And if you think about it, this exactly mirrors what happens when a company grows, right? Which is, you know, a company grows, you know, you don't just hire 100 people, have them all work for one person. You have managers, right? And then you end up with an organization chart, right? With like a reporting chain, like at any big company. And so that's what's going to happen with the bots is you're going to end up overseeing an org chart of bots. And then And of course, a year after that, it's going to be bots managing bots managing bots, right?
So then you're going to have 2 layers of reporting or 3 layers of reporting. And then you're going to have individual programmers that are overseeing 1,000 bots at a time, right? Which means you're going to have individual programmers that are 1,000 times more productive than they were before, right? And so now you've given every programmer in the world this level of superpower and capability. And you see what I'm saying? It's true that they're not writing the code themselves. But they're overseeing the entire thing. They're directing the entire thing. They're developing the strategy. It's their product sense that's going into it. It's their business goals that are going into it. It's their creativity that's going into it. They can let their imagination run completely wild. By the way, this also goes back to the thing. The bots never get frustrated with you. Right. Right. So you tell a normal person, you hire somebody over here, you hire somebody here and you tell them you want a screen display and you want it to be an animated version of your thing you've got back here. Okay. They spend 2 weeks doing it. They bring it to you.
They animate it. It's like, okay, that's pretty good, but I actually want "Hey, I want the whole thing to be whatever, purple and green." And they spend a week doing that and they come back and you're like, "I actually preferred the old version." The guy gets pissed at you because he's like, "I just wasted my time." The bot's like, "No problem. No sweat. Whatever you want. And we can try it 12 more times if you want. And if you want, I can create sub-bots to go do 12 more times right now." Or you tell it, "This is terrible. I can't believe you came back to me with this. It has all these bugs." And it's like, "Oh, I'm so sorry. I'll go fix these." Either way, never gets drunk, never gets sick, never gets high.
And so all of us, this is the workplace version of what I described earlier. So all of a sudden everybody in the workplace has this, basically think about it as an army of bots at their command. So then it's going to start with coders, but then it's going to be every other job, right? So it's going to be every writer, you know, you're already doing it. Every writer is going every lawyer is going to have it, every doctor is going to have it. Doctors are already— okay, so this is the other thing is there's all these questions about like, when is the medical profession going to adopt AI? Because there's all this incredible capability, but there's no concept of an AI doctor and you still have to go to a human doctor and an AI doctor can't write prescriptions. And so, and then every hospital board is trying to figure out what to do with it. And so, you know, the American Medical Association is trying to figure out what to do with it. So there's this big question of like how it's going to get absorbed into the medical system.