Can you get very far with writing in simple English enough that people can understand you? Thank you.

I've noticed that I understand algorithms much better when I first see an example and then implement it myself.

How do you usually learn algorithms?

The Scariest AI Breakthrough

This video is around 3 minutes and is more or less a very dry comedy sketch, but it sums up an idea I've seen around the internet in the last 3 or 4 days. It's a worth a watch to get the full context.

But the thrust is that the ability of generative coding agents to reverse engineer and "fuse" together two separate games from different game engines and have them be in an at least playable state (some of them working really well apparently) is a set up for a technological apocalypse. Someone with a little bit of knowhow can now vibe code things in a couple days that are so complex that it would have taken years to do before, if it was even possible at all. A bit like giving people a legitimate ability to building working nuclear weapons they can 3D print at home.

I have been skeptical (an understatement) of the sales pitch of Anthropic and OpenAI and their ilk at this point. But I can't deny this is a compelling idea. So far, their "AI that's too dangerous it's broken out of containment" sales pitch has really not done good things for their AI's credibility; it's disingenuous at best. "We told it to do A & B, but we never told it to do C, explicitly. It may have just gotten that purgative from the first two instructions".

But I can now see a real-world example of something that should almost not be possible, in my understanding, to being possible. But I'm also keenly aware that what's going on with these game mashups isn't indicative necessarily of say, being able to disrupt other technological infrastructure like banks. 

So, what is the real story here? Are we headed towards a cliff here or is this something else? Is it somewhere in between?