Trying to think of what programmers can do to after ai takes over more and more programming tasks. Maybe work shifts into building tools for ais to access better and better sources of information so they can operate more effectively. They are still dependent on us to give them access to the world… for now.

Ideas:

- robotics/physical agents for gathering information from the world

- tools that ais can use for debugging programs so that it can fix bugs more efficiently and don’t get stuck.

We should really think outside the box for these tools, we don’t need to limit them to human conceptions of what makes a tool good. I see things like claude operator, i’m not sure it makes sense for an ai to control a gui to debug something.

Here’s an idea: use a time travelling debugger and trace the entire program execution and just give it all to an ai… the potential for finding and fixing bugs is insane due to the ability to process large amount of information at once with larger and larger context sizes.

the biggest thing limiting AI agents right now is tools that *work*, are designed for them, and ensuring they have quick access to the right data when they need it.

Now that i have written it this way, it’s not that different than what humans need to be productive…