We are not the center of the digital universe

Soviet ideologists were geniuses. History does go in a spiral. Back in the eighties a programmer was sitting in a dark room and typed something in dark terminal windows. Now, a quarter of the way into the 21st century we are sitting again in claudes, codexes, geminis in these dark konsoles.

I sit there too - for work and, you know, for trolls. But for study I use claude code in Visual Studio Code. It's hard to study when the whole program is written for you. So I need to tell my code assistant "You're my study assistant. You give me short answers. You don't give me advice or write a program until I ask you" You know. It's a prompt for an agent.

But then there is no use in this exercise if I just start asking the bot "write me this, write me that..." I need to think. I need to find a precise question, that covers the piece of the puzzle which eludes me. If it happens again and again, I need to find the pattern and ask a slightly wider question. You know. It's a prompt for me.

At this moment it's silly to think that we are ther center of the universe and continue to command servants who live in your computers. Claude, codex and we, humans, are agents and neural networks who are distilling each other trying to grasp grains of knowledge and to optimize our metrics. Copernikus, Galileo... You are right. We, humans, are not centers of the universe. Bring your pitchforks and torches. I'm here. I'm ready.