David P. Reichert
Cognition & AI, consciousness, ethics, figuring out the future. I am a researcher at Google DeepMind, though this my personal blog, and any views expresssed here are my own.
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AI and a code-shaped world: some examples of agents being useful (opens the original)
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Usual disclosure: I work at Google DeepMind, this is a personal project with personal opinions, using a competitor’s (Anthropic) product (Claude Code).In my last post I wanted to convey how far AI has come recently. Many people still think of AI purely as chatbots, whose sole job is to provide you with information – and often they even get that wrong! But coding agents are different: they can act on the world via code. And a lot of the time, they do actually work now. Much has chang
If you haven’t recently used Claude Code*, you might not understand where AI is at (opens the original)
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(*) or equivalent agentic coding offerings.Usual disclosure: I work at an AI Lab (Google DeepMind). This post describes work I’ve done in my personal time, and reflects my own opinions. If my ulterior motive is promoting my employer, I’m doing a bad job, because I’ll be using a competitor’s product as the example.So, how big of a deal will AI really be?The future is hard to predict. But what should be easier to predict is the present: where AI is at now.Whether it’s Reddit, news stories, or acad
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