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Coding benefits from external 'scaffold of memory'
  • Codebases provide structured memory that reduces need for learning
  • Explains why coding progressed faster than other domains
  • Other jobs lack this advantage, making them harder to automate end-to-end
  • Suggests building similar scaffolds could accelerate other domains
Dario AmodeiDwarkesh Patel00:34:24

Supporting quotes

Don't you think with coding that's because there is an external scaffold of memory which exists instantiated in the codebase? I don't know how many other jobs have that. Dario Amodei
Coding made fast progress precisely because it has this unique advantage that other economic activity doesn't. Dario Amodei

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