You're applying the doorman fallacy here. This has been discussed a lot. Honestly, the sooner the industry accepts that we aren't there yet nor does the current architecture enable us do get there, the sooner we can make progress towards that ideal state.
> We simply have better magic wands and more powerful spells now.
Wouldn't it be nice though if the incantation of the same spell would always do the same thing every time ? You see that's how my old wand and spells worked.
tl;dr Since nobody really understands why or how any of this shit works, last time around we just threw a bunch of crap at it to see what stuck. Seems like we could just have have thrown less crap.
> rocket engineers/scientists are in high demand with lots of likely sponsors for immigration
I wouldn't be too sure about the immigration part, when even a software engineer hire for a defence/defence adjacent job requires jumping through a number of bureaucratic hoops of security clearances. Even the companies with deep pockets don't always get the best people in the world -- they just get the best people that HR can actually hire.
> Detect the danger window. When the main lineage goes idle and a subagent is actively running, the main prefix is at risk of expiring.
So, this is not demanding to be at the front of the queue, it's just paying someone to take the place you already had in the queue, when you want to take a leak.
> Couldn’t a Lindy enthusiast have gone “umm but isn’t Java too new and shouldn’t we just stick to C which is well trodden and understood??”
I think people often misrepresent history because they view it with the benefit of hindsight. People who chose to use Java didn't do it to embrace a revolutionary idea, they were embracing an evolutionary one. It seemed like a natural optimization step, rather than a clean slate.
Most Jave devs were proficient C devs who found the idea of a platform independent C quite appealing.
That's the Lindy effect. C (the essence of it) survives in Java and right up to JS/python/go.
In contrast consider Pascal, Fotran, Perl, COBOL, (and dare I say ... Lisp ?)
I'm honestly surprised at all the people here commenting that superpowers didn't work out for them.
For me personally, it was a game changer when I first began using it and now it simply is as much a part of my workflow as any say, using git (yeah it has its warts but way way more value).
Also, the latest (version 6) is noticebly token efficient as claimed.
Did the people who found it underwhelming not try starting with the brainstorming skill first?
The real joke here is how close these quips are to the reality of modern day financial markets. Specifically, lending and hedging, are time entangled and value within the markets exist in superposition.
24K is presumably the number that got caught. It isn't out of the realm of possibility that there indeed are (/ were over time), 5x accounts that managed to bypass the checks anthropic had.