The creative process is different for everyone, so we’re introducing Google Flow Tools. Now you can vibe code any creative tool you can think of, like designing video effects or hand-drawn animations. You can build, share and remix tools directly in @FlowByGoogle. #GoogleIO

It’s possible technology changes this. But right now, AI agents aren’t truly autonomous. They are built for the prompt, bots on a leash. Amplified intelligence as wholly distinct from truly artificial intelligence. The much-cited METR study doesn’t change that. Read the critique linked below; it notes that there METR shows a sigmoid on the messiest tasks. Even anecdotally…agentic workflows absolutely do help, and time horizons have been lengthening since Claude Cowork. But it’s just not the panacea it’s made out to be. Human prompting and verification remains the bottleneck, because digital AI only does it middle-to-middle, not end-to-end. Anyway: in the absence of constant human verification, it’s extraordinarily easy to fill a codebase with economically irrelevant slop. It’s the principal/agent problem all over again, with human principals and AI agents. High agency actually means exerting high levels of human control over highly expensive agents. transformernews.ai/p/against…

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

Very interesting