> I keep searching for a sign, but everyone I talk to has horror stories. It sucks as a technologist that just wants to play with the thing; oh well.
The reason that Claude Code doesn't have an IDE is because ~"we think the IDE will obsolete in a year, so it seemed like a waste of time to create one."
Noam Shazeer said on a Dwarkesh podcast that he stopped cleaning his garage, because a robot will be able to do it very soon.
If you are operating under the beliefs these folks have, then things like IDEs, cleaning up, and customer service are stupid annoyances that will become obsolete very soon.
To be clear, I have huge respect for everyone mentioned above, especially Noam.
> Noam Shazeer said on a Dwarkesh podcast that he stopped cleaning his garage, because a robot will be able to do it very soon.
We all come up with excuses for why we haven't done a chore, but some of us need to sound a bit more plausible to other members of the household than that.
It would get about the same reaction as "I'm not going to wash the dishes tonight, the rapture is tomorrow."
I want to make it very clear that this was a lighthearted response from Noam to the "AGI timeline" question.
Noam does not do a lot of interviews, and I really hope that stuff like my dumb comment does not prevent him from doing more in the future. We could all learn a lot from him. I am not sure that everyone understands everything that this man has given us.
"Noam Shazeer said on a Dwarkesh podcast that he stopped cleaning his garage, because a robot will be able to do it very soon".
How much is the robot going to cost in a year? 100k? 200k? Not mass market pricing for sure.
Meanwhile, today he could pay someone $1000 to clean his garage.
I would do it for free, just to answer the question of what does a genius of his caliber have in his garage? Probably the same stuff most people do, but it would still be interesting.
I don’t think the point was about having a clean space, it was in response to a question along the lines of: when do you think we will achieve AGI?
Trust me, I’m a genius of his caliber. Want to clean my garage? You free next week?