At Coinbase, we constantly use AI tools to speed up our development.

That's why we just shipped an LLM-optimized version of our developer docs.

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I always wondered, why humans want to speed up everything? It’s not about the project, just a thought that bothers me for a while

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it just feels like the wrong motion for fulfilling it? with such an incredible fast way of connecting with people, yet we are more depressed and lonely than ever.

Can empathize with the sentiment, but wanted to ask what you mean by "motion"?

Imo improving speed of the repetitive operations of life is incredibly freeing (e.g., washing machines are under-appreciated, long commutes are worse than short commutes)

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Interesting perspective! I'm reminded of Hesse's Siddhartha: "I can think, I can wait, I can fast". Imagine how many of our external problems could be solved if we were all better at these.

While I don't disagree that solving inner problems is valuable, I do think it's harder to imagine doing that at a civilizational scale without external forces changing the playing field. In other words, I'm not confident that if we just stopped technological progress and thought about it really hard, that we could work out our problems on a species-wide level.

As far as going to Mars is concerned, one thing I'm scared of for humanity is resource scarcity. Much of our external conflict seems to be strongly correlated with competing over finite resources and I see Mars as a resource play.

I agree, though, that a lot of us (myself included) don't know what to do with all this freedom. But I'm hopeful that we'll become wiser as culture catches up with technological change and better equips us for the coming world.

absolutely!! but what we face after freeing ourselves is that we are not prepared mentally at all for this freedom. i don’t have anything against the progress, but in many cases people think it will solve their inner problems, which is not ofc

for the same reason i do not support humanity going to Mars, for example. instead of solving the mess we are in, we are trying to escape it. 

and doesn’t matter where you are going, you are bringing yourself everywhere.