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saxelsen
·bulan lalu·discuss
I think the premise of the article is interesting, but it's a bit mis-leading to start it out by quoting "last year half of the internet was AI-generated" and the source doesn't actually say that at all, just that there has been a huge uptick in AI crawlers.
saxelsen
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Yes but companies would love for a robot to be able to do it instead.
saxelsen
·2 bulan yang lalu·discuss
In reality, I think it's more likely that the lay-offs will be when the marginal rate of growth slows down. Once executives see that growth doesn't change much when hiring, they stop hiring, and once they see that growth doesn't decrease much when firing, they start firing.

There's still an opportunity for engineers to eat their bosses lunch and just start their own company. It's never been easier to start a lower cost competitor.

Employment isn't a social law of nature: it's a transaction of money for "units of work", just like the business might have with other vendors. Governments should be making it easier to become a vendor.
saxelsen
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
What do you know?
saxelsen
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Agree, but maybe they worry they'll be even more irrelevant if they don't partner? Keep your enemies close...
saxelsen
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Shout out to Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/), which I use on a daily basis.

It does most of what Obsidian does but has a free sync version where you just use your cloud drive as the storage.

The main thing missing, from what I've found, is that it does do the "notes mind map". But I never really found that useful.
saxelsen
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
They are being selected for their survival potential, though. Any current version of LLMs are the winners of the training selection process. They will "die" once new generations are trained that supercede them.
saxelsen
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
> The PMs writing features? That’s the welding. And there’s nothing wrong with it. But it only works if the bridge is designed right. > > The profession is splitting. The mistake would be pretending it isn’t happening

I'm tired of reading AI blog-posts. Write in your own words, please.
saxelsen
·3 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Would you like me to draft a list of recommendations for how best to use comments?
saxelsen
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Can I ask how you annotate the feedback for it? Just with inline comments like `# This should be changed to X`?

The author mentions annotations but doesn't go into detail about how to feed the annotations to Claude.
saxelsen
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There's pretty much only one global insurer affiliated with dive schools, so this is spot on
saxelsen
·5 bulan yang lalu·discuss
If the monopolist chef is deliberately adding addictive ingredients that causes health problems, I think, yes, they're the ones to punish or address the problem with.
saxelsen
·6 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This hit close to home..!

I had a startup some years ago and took angel funding from family. When we were later running out of cash and had to raise professional money to stay alive, the pressure of the expectations I thought my family had because I was on the verge of losing their money caused me debilitating panic attacks.

I still feel the effects 6 years later, but have learned to cope whenever I feel the pressure begin to build. But man did it scar.

OP if there is any advice I can give, it's that you should have a chat with your investor friends about and make sure you feel like you can always walk away.
saxelsen
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I used to resonate with the word "taste" as a distinguishing factor between good and bad quality, but a comment on HN some months ago about one of the many blog posts that talks about taste really nailed it:

"Taste" is just the degree to which two people value the same things.

When someone is rated as having "good taste" it just means that the person rating them values a lot of the same qualities.

The more I thought about it, the more that applies everywhere: Food, wine, clothes, architecture, software design, etc.
saxelsen
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
1000% agree on the YouTube/Spotify parallel!!

I find it so annoying on Spotify when my daughter wants to listen to kids music, I have to navigate 5 clicks and scrolls to turn on privacy so her listening doesn't pollute my recommendations.
saxelsen
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Nice interactivity, but this is taken straight from the Designing Data-Intensive Applications. Literally all the content here is an interactive version of chapter 3.

Maybe give credit?
saxelsen
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
A person with integrity would have promoted bootcamps and recused themselves from smearing competitors.
saxelsen
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I agree with you. Just disappointing that it's just another company slowly abandoning their mission in favor of profits.
saxelsen
·9 bulan yang lalu·discuss
I'll bet $100 they're seeing an opportunity to dethrone Google as the entrance point to the web and this is a big part of it.

It feels like OpenAI's mission has changed from "We want to do do AGI" to

"it'll be easier to do AGI with a lot of money, so let's make a lot of money first" to

"we have a shot at becoming bigger than Google and stealing their revenue. Let's do that and maybe do AGI if that ever works out"
saxelsen
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
This story sounds like the worst consequence of American liberalism and capitalism in one.

This would be a hit TV show on par with Baby Reindeer, if it was ever televised.