Posted by meetpateltech 3 days ago
it can take a .PDF with single table with, say, a list of food items and prices. And then in a .docx in the same folder with a table with, say, prices and calories. Can this thing then, in a one shot, produce a .xlsx with the items and calories and save that to the same directory? It really doesn't matter what the lists are of, just keep it very simple A=B, B=C, therefore A=C stuff.
Because, strangely enough, that's pretty much my definition of AGI.
"It's life jim, but not as we know it" -Bones, probably.
I've seen some hokey definitions, but a 3 expression inductance clause is pretty low bar. On that score, your REPL and my compiler are AGI.
Like, the task I sketched out is the bare basic sketch of what you can ask a new grad/hire to do. Which ends up being ~80% of their job anyways. I really don't think the average person could do that task (unfortunately).
If the new Claude code stuff honestly can do this, then, like I said, that's a close enough definition of AGI for me.
Like, um, no joke here.
At the start of summer you could still ask for any kind of file as an artifact and they would produce it and you could download it.
They they changed it to artifacts were only ever seen pages that you could share or view in the app.
Yes this is going to transform how I use Claude... BACK to the way I used it in June!
As a user this post is frustrating as hell to read because I've missed this feature so much, but at the same time thanks for giving it back I guess?
A lot of the people I graduated with spent their 20s making powerpoint and excel. There would be people with a master's in engineering getting phone calls at 1am, with an instruction to change the fonts on slide 75, or to slightly modify some calculation. Most of the real decision making was, funnily enough, not based on these documents. But it still meant people were working 100 hour weeks.
I could see this resulting in the same work being done in a few minutes. But I could also see it resulting in the MDs asking for 10x the number of slide decks.
I think we're going to see the same thing with document creation. Could LLMs help make a small number of high quality documents? Yes, with some coaching and planning from the user. But instead people will use them to quickly create a crappy document, get feedback that it's crappy, and then immediately create an only slightly less crappy doc.
“Now here you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place” as she says.
I fully believe any slack this creates will get gobbled up in competition in a few years.
The biggest investments will go to those who can create the most documents, we'll innovate on new document types, keep the ball rolling with Mixture of Document architectures. Artificial General Documents are here!
Rent just went up 20%! Back to the trenches, citizen. You wouldn’t want to lose that precious healthcare now would you?
unintelligible babbling about “productivity!”, “impact!”, “efficiency!” hums quietly in the distance
to me it seems miraculous that it even "sort of" works, but also it's not a reliable product yet. OOXML is very complex and the formatting can get mangled.
On the other hand, if you use LaTeX/Beamer slides, LLMs can reliably make a lot of formatting tweaks etc. and it is an actual time saver. But only weird academics use Beamer.
I agree with Simon Willison that this feature is really about writing code in a container, using that capability to edit PPT presentations as if they were markup is an odd thing to make the primary selling point.
You could even ask claude code with scopecraft/cmd to plan it all out and implement this.
For anthropic, the excuse that there's not enough time to implement this is a pretty glaring admission about the state and success of AI assisted development.
Headline demonstrates why SWEa don’t have to worry about vive coders eating their lunch. Vibe-coders don’t know what a container is, nor why it would be good for it to be in the context of an environment (what’s an environment?), or be server-side for that matter. Now if there were a course that instructed all this kind of architectural tradecraft that isn’t taught in university CS courses (but bootcamps..?), then adding vibe-coding alongside might pose a concern m, at least till the debugging technical debt comes due. But by then the vibecoder had validated a new market on the back of their v0, so thank them for the fresh revenue streams.
At most it’s just a maintenance issue. A junior dev or plucky marketing team member might produce something that makes it to production and the senior devs might have to probe it to do more things
all SaaS projects building on it to resell functionality will go away because there will be no point to pay the added costs.
Finally they figure out that there is no money or interest in code-plagiarizing apps!