Starts talking about LEDs and totally misses LCDs, which made heavy use of 7-segment displays and were ubiquitous for a few decades in the early years of consumer digital electronics.
I might be off by a factor of 2 in that estimate, but not much more.
Most of our communication is via chat. Then there are ticket specs and comments. Project overviews and status updates. PR descriptions and comments. Documentation. ADRs. Retros and incident reports. Meeting agendas, notes, and writeups. The occasional email. LLM prompts. Last week I spent 5k words in a few hours just breaking down a large planned project to ticket-level bullet points so we could give an appropriate estimate for roadmapping. (Which turned out to be crucial, because it revealed that the requested timeline for a pilot was too short by at least a factor of 2 even for the most descoped version the stakeholders would accept, and we had the receipts to convince the CTO.)
I’m definitely not spending most of my days writing novels, but all the sentences add up.
Okay? This article is about the campaigning for change part. It doesn’t say you shouldn’t make those tweaks. Just that you shouldn’t have to and we should change that.
Best performing headphones I ever had were the ones with the foam covers that came bundled with a particular model of Walkman. Kept those together with duct tape until the electronics finally gave out.
Composer writes the worst, stupidest, most naive and straight up brains-dead code you could imagine. Fast and cheap is about all it’s got going for it. I mostly use it for “sort these lines alphabetically” and stuff that’s a smidge too complex for regex find/replace.
Yes. The trouble is that to be able to not starve to death while you’re looking for a new job, you have to sign away a ton of rights, basically including the ability to sue for wrongful termination or expose wrongdoing. It’s a situation with an extremely unequal balance of power/leverage.
For Gen Z the new reality is for other people to make money off your every action, squeeze you for every cent, and not be willing to pay you enough to live on no matter how hard you’re willing to work — or even to employ you at all, in favor of robots and agents. Getting worse every month.
The hope is that the government will tax the absurdly wealthy extractors and offer a UBI so that everyone else won’t have to starve in the streets or bring out the guillotines.
Corporate data belonging to non-AI companies.
Data that exists only in filing cabinets or on microfiche.
Whatever’s on that collection of CDs and floppy disks that you still have sitting around.
The home videos nobody’s bothered to digitize.
Private art collections.
Photo prints from film cameras that haven’t been digitized.
Airplane black box data.
Personal handwritten journals.
Plenty of private dead tree correspondence.
The vast majority of grocery store receipts.
Properly stored passwords.
Proprietary code produced by companies that don’t use AI or use only self-hosted models.
Scientific data that hasn’t been published or analyzed with AI, including plenty of older data.
Annual reviews predating LLMs.
Information exchanged during phone and video calls that aren’t recorded or haven’t been submitted for transcript generation / summaries.
Most board meeting minutes.
Anything handwritten that hasn’t been scanned.
The contents of many private online communities.
A lot of classified information.
I think that’s enough for now.