Go

“A use of a coding agent that works extremely well, is you can ask today's models to translate software from one computer language to another very effectively, because in that case, you actually have a incredibly detailed specification. You have the whole softw…”

“Clearly today's systems, I think can't do that.”

“In 2016, DeepMind solved a grand challenge in computer science, creating a system that surpassed the intuitive brilliance of the world's best players of the ancient board game Go.”

“The best South Go player in the world is a South Korean, and he was about 15, I think, when AlphaGo match happened. He's in his mid-twenties now, and he's by far the strongest player there's ever, Been by the ELO ratings, because he's learned natively, young e…”

“It's very inefficient because the system has to try many things before it gets the correct answer. And so, It's very inefficient. It requires many, many, many trials. And so it works really well for games. You know, you, it's very efficient. If you want to tra…”

“I use TypeScript for managing headless browsers and puppeteer library. I use Go language for rate limiting, managing API keys, and so on. I use Cloudflare for storing screenshots as an API gateway to my product.”

“And he's sitting across from me, and Yamoichi says, I can't give you any programmers. I said, I don't need programmers. I just need money. And he says, how much? And I said, gosh, I mean, I, I'm thinking of what's the biggest number I can think of right now. A…”

“Whenever I met him after that, I always set up the meeting on a day when I'm the last meeting. His last meeting, and then we would play Go for the rest of the day. I had all this one-on-one time with Yamauchi, which nobody had.”

“So the data stack is, in my team, the data stack is SQL and scikit, and occasionally Go”

“Like we also found in chess and go, we actually ran this experiment. If you do. Just pure supervised learning on a giant data set of human chess and go games. The bot that you get out from that is not an expert chess or go player. Even if it's like conditioned…”

“We decided to rewrite the whole thing in Rust because that gave us the guarantees A better language. Performance wasn't really the key, but enabling us to do other things with the language that we just couldn't do and go.”

“There was another mind-blowing study this week that showed that one of the best Go programs, KataGo, could be fooled by some silly little strategy that would be obvious to a human player. But, you know, somebody was able to follow this strategy and, like, an a…”

“And with AlphaGo, the scoring, because of the scoring inherent to Go, AlphaGo could generate lots of new moves and instantly see which ones are good. So it could iterate its way through that learning process to get to really, really good moves. And so then you…”

“Knowing a little bit of like Go or like having like spun up Kubernetes on my, you know, on a test, test cluster at home is not nearly enough to have an informed good opinion about A new language or like a new system. Like you have to run those systems in produ…”

“And frankly, it's more joyful to write Visual Basic than it is to write Go, right? That you actually achieve Business results. I mean, seriously, right? Like, writing a Spark job, you see the output right away, whereas if you write a large Go application, I me…”

“All the rules are completely well known. The state of play is completely well known, right? In the real world, mostly we live in a fog of war situation where we know some things and we don't know other things. It would cost us something to go figure it out, an…”

“Thousands of generations of games playing each other sort of arrive at places that maybe humans would have gotten to if we played another thousand years, but like, you know, it figured out in three days.”

“Today we're running about 300 different microservices, which are kind of piping together various Kafka topics and reading and writing, transforming this data, getting it to where it needs to go and our backend is primarily written in Go.”

“So AlphaGo, the first thing that AlphaGo did was it learned from all the existing, the entire existing database of Go matches played by human masters. That was the first thing it did was learn from those, right? Thirty million moves or something like that is t…”

“This isn't, this is written in Go, so, which is a garbage collected language, so worst case response time can be worse than what you would want in that kind of setup.”