It’s fairly silly to work at Amazon if you don’t like data centers. And also stupid for Amazon to employ you if you don’t like data center and are actively making efforts in your free time and possibly while at work to prevent the construction of data centers.
You really have to question the motives of somebody who is anti data center working at Amazon to the point they may only work there to throw wrenches into plans for such.
Making it a “political issue” should not result in a company dealing with such issues.
You would never stand up for having doctor or nurses plotting to prevent abortions and potentially taking action on the job to prevent them.
Maybe those who participate in democracy should have to demonstrate some level educations on the topics they vote on?
Because if you are right it’s a loosing battle. The masses will always be under informed, and under educated. And the only way to inform and educate them would result very undemocratic society.
> Those algorithmic biases have demonstrable behavioral consequences.
The algos optimize for engagement, which can roughly translate into the people drive the algos, as they would stop watching or visiting or commenting, if it was not something they wanted to engage in.
So in some ways, is this not democracy to the max?
I wonder if articles like these don’t like the outcomes, or the reflection of society that the algos create. And thus attack them, because they would rather curate and limit conversation and expressions on the internet they don’t like or agree with.
I thunk you are right. This is just the same old stuff. I think people are reacting because AI is doing something, and that something seems to be accelerating the process of software development. So what people are seeing is the same issues we have always had compressed into tiny time frames.
But there is good news, at least I think. AI is also moving processes ideas and safety guards along at a faster rate. The only real downside is right now, at least, the amount of code being created outside of our safeguards has accelerated much much faster. This has happened in the past with software, so I am not too worried.
This. We don’t have a housing problem. We have a “I want to live here problem.” And if we could snap our fingers and everybody in the world who wanted to live in NY could, it would be the same second nobody would want to live in NY.
It just does not scale like people think. And that is why the price has to go up, and that is the forcing factor for max capacity of any given parcel of land.
The fact is we all can’t live in the same city. And people need to do what we did in the past. And that is move to new locations that are cheaper.
Every hot spot today once was a crappy place, it was over time that it became the desirable place. That is just how it works. You got to move and live where you can afford.
Every city has a max amount of occupancy, and density. It’s so silly to even think about this on the individual level. I can find 1BN people who want to live in NY today if told today they could have a place today for $500 a month but 1BN other people are also joining would instantly turn down the offer.
Wtf. I use OpenAI for all my shopping now. How to match clothing and finding things I have seen.
ChatGPT has helped me with all the wired social things I have no clue about. Like how long should a suit jacket be, what to pair with loafers. And more often than not I buy the things ChatGPT suggest.
> The second is when people generate artifacts in disciplines they were never trained in.
This screams gate keeping.
My self and many who are experts in their fields were never formally trained. The titans that built the world of software we have today were mostly untrained in this specific field.
I think the article completely misses the point. If the artifacts created solve a problem then who cares who wrote the prompt or wrote the code.
Software ha changing, and holding in to old notions, titles, processes and rules to keep your status , title and importance seems silly.
When I was young I somehow figured out how to control my dreams. By the time I was an adult and working in software all my dreams were always iterating over solutions to problems I had at work. And every day I would come into the office with the ability to move forward on projects with insights in leaned that night while sleeping.
I am always having these arguments. We are paying this other company x a year for something we should build if we really need it.
The rebuttals I always get are “I want you working on something that I can’t pay another company for”. I think it sounds good, but in the long run we always end up a budget conversations and head count limits because we spend so much money on external services and software we should just build.
Every company ever has this problem.
But now with AI. The cost of showing the company “yes we can” is so cheap. I worry for companies who have promotable replacements.
I look a Claude / ChatGPT as an extension of my thought. It should be held as such in all court proceedings. It’s used to allow me to think and reason about things.
Idk how that works with journals today, but anything like this which helps me organize my thoughts should be off limits to discovery.
Idk about you. But I know lots of well qualified ICs who are enamored with AI. They are also boring it to build and fix things that would take months, in just days.
Decisions are less costly. When a swe can take 4 days to do what would have cost 6 months, the math of making sure you are doing the right thing before executing goes away.
> Now I'm pretty sure that people who say they "vibecoded an app in 30 minutes" are either building simple copies of existing projects, produce some buggy crap, or just farm engagement.
Some people seem to be better at it than others. I see a huge gulf in what people can do. Oddly there is a correlation between was a good engineer pre AI and can vibe code well.
But I see one odd thing. A subset of those who people would consider good or even amazing pre AI struggle. The best I can tell at this stage is because they lacked get int good results with unskilled workers in the past and just relied on their own skills to carry the project.
AI coders can do some amazing things. But at this stage you have to be careful about how you guide it down a path in the same way you did with junior engineers. I am not making a comparison to AI being junior, they by far can code better than most senior engineers, and have access to knowledge at lighting speed.
You really have to question the motives of somebody who is anti data center working at Amazon to the point they may only work there to throw wrenches into plans for such.
Making it a “political issue” should not result in a company dealing with such issues.
You would never stand up for having doctor or nurses plotting to prevent abortions and potentially taking action on the job to prevent them.