"One weird trick" is still pretty much the first way to go for most recommendation systems that are large embeddings focused. see torchrec, nvidia's hugectr
the thing is humans have most efficiently encoded (in detail) reality in text. humans already highlight what is worth encoding about reality.
for example, you can finetune gpt-2 to have an idea of sexual biology by having it read erotica. just like how you can have a model learn the same by watching porn. but it is much more efficient to read the text, since there is much less information that is "useless"
google deployment manager. it has incredibly subpar support for other GCP services. all support interactions resort to them suggesting migration to Terraform. we do use it in production, but not without great headache.
this isn't an explicit kill-off, but certainly purposefully offering bad support
this is in a class of problems i've been thinking about recently
- usury
- patents
- copyrights
- land
- software as a service
the first 3 all have some slowly changing socially acceptable period of profit. and they are all enshrined in law. but this means there are also frameworks in place for adjusting this period of profit (lobbying, etc.)
the 4th is only capped by property taxes and sometimes with unintended consequences (cf. prop 13)
the 5th is unregulated and seems socially acceptable to have no definite end date due to a combination of (sometimes artificial) technical difficulty (need for support, e.g. RedHat, any other company based on FOSS) and slow addition of pithy features.
i'm not sure i have any conclusions, but I think this framework is useful because it allows us to examine it with an older moral framework rather than a more (post) modern marxist.
Responding in general to the meme of "but what is your time worth?"
people often underestimate their ability to change their own utility functions. If you're watching 4 hours of TV every night (or reading or w/e other "mental recharge" activity) simply change your utility function to let financial planning "recharge you."
The ultimate arb is changing your own utility function.
Obviously this may be harder or easier for some people, but it's a very learnable skill.