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Even Richard Feynman's Son Is Worried About Losing His Job To AI Now
And Claude just blew me away with its new hybrid reasoning model
Neer Varshney
February 27, 2025
If you are worried about AI taking over your job, take solace — you are in good company.
Computer scientist Carl Feynman, whose master's thesis in 1986 was crucial to modeling the appearance of cloth in computer graphics, is overwhelmingly impressed by generative AI doing the same task — so much so, that he wonders if he would keep getting paid for what he does.
My master’s thesis in 1986: “Modeling the appearance of cloth”. It took library research and cleverness and originality and months of work and days of time on big computers. Now I’m outdone by an AI in a few minutes. They still pay me, but for how long?
— carl feynman (@carl_feynman)
9:10 PM • Feb 26, 2025
The remark may be a bit tongue in cheek, given that it’s Feynman’s work itself that makes AI having this knowledge possible but it does highlight a worry — that AI won’t just replace humans in doing mundane repetitive stuff, but in also performing some of most intelligent tasks.
I mean, in my personal workflow, I am using AI more and more, including to code out entire programs in Python.
Developing Dzambhala Nodex itself won’t have been possible just two years ago, without hiring an array of engineers working on devops, javascript and python.
Anyway, in major updates, Feynmann was reacting to the Claude 3.7 Sonnet model that was launched earlier this week.
The World’s first Hybrid ‘Reasoning’ Model Is Here
Claude released its latest model, the 3.7 Sonnet, on Tuesday, as the world’s first hybrid reasoning model.
That just means it can decide b/w when to give you an instant response v/s when to think deep and reason based on your prompt, unlike OpenAI’s o1 or DeepSeek’s R1, which exclusively always reason.
This is pretty interesting because Sam Altman did say an integrated experience like this is what he intended with ChatGPT.
OK, but to me that isn’t the most impressive thing with Sonnet.
The model is state of the art at coding — really OpenAI and Grok just can’t compete here.
It’s been just 3 days, and it has already replaced 3.5 Sonnet as my go-to model for coding.
Yet — the most impressive and creative use for the new model hasn’t come from me. Pieter Levels, the chief among indiemakers, designed an F-16 plane with it and coded an entire flight simulator game with it!
✈️ Added a Stripe [ Buy ] button now to fly.pieter.com
So you can buy an F16 for $29.99
I asked @Cursor and Claude 3.7 Sonnet to design the plane
You'll be able to fly faster and shoot harder than everyone else and win in dogfights :D
— @levelsio (@levelsio)
2:51 PM • Feb 26, 2025
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Perplexity is gearing to launch its own web browser ‘Comet’ with agentic search.
Paytm is integrating Perplexity’s AI search engine into its payments app.
Amazon has unvelieved the next generation of its Alexa virtual assistant, this time powered heavily by (you guessed it — generative AI)
ElvenLabs released its new speech-to-text model Scribe.
Inception Labs released the first diffusion-based LLM. Karpathy sees a lot of potential here.
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