This is a little Inside Baseball but this astonishing video came to my attention and hit home with me as a technologist. It starts a bit slow, but essentially it involves two people asking an Artificial Intelligence to write a certain computer program -- literally asking vocally -- and the AI doing it live as we watch. That in itself is remarkable, but the most remarkable thing is that the AI taught itself how to program from simply being fed tons of previously written programs and analysing them.
Speaking as someone who has spent three decades doing this in concert with numerous teams of human programmers and fought through all the communication and coordination complications involved in completing huge software projects, I suddenly feel like my Model T was just passed by a Tesla.
Tangentially related: There is a new and superior pasta shape.
