Oh god, George is getting old. Sounding like an old guy.
What does that say about me? I used to find him childish.
Jokes aside I also didn’t like him. Until I heard him on that podcast with the Russian-American dude whose name I can’t remember and can’t be bothered to search right now. I was surprised to start find that I would like George, because he said he was religious and I generally dislike people who capitalize god, etc.
I think he was one of the coolest hackers of the millennial generation.
Sincerely or not, judgement is yours, Dario has been begging for regulation. He has been talking about how Claude models are distilled by foreign adversaries. And now the regulation is here.
What makes you think this situation that the CEO of Anthropic is asking for it temporary? Do you not believe Dario was sincere?
I am pretty certain that the book of at least 1 of the Abrahamic religions explicitly states that you either believe all of it, or you are not a believer.
What you’re describing is religion applied to every opinion.
I wasn’t patient enough to read the whole thing. But I know Justine to be of extraordinary technical prowess.
I can imagine that someone with that level of talent can be extremely socially unfit - whether intentionally or unintentionally I am unaware. At some point I may have been that way (hoping I am no longer that way, hopefully I was that way with the talent as opposed to without), and I’ve met others who are.
What strikes me as weird is how no manager/leader is able to utilize this absolute treasure of technical ability. I think that makes someone a true leader and/or a capitalist. Anyone can hire average skill who needs the money and is capable of faking sincerity.
Didn’t know I’d ever get to use the phrase “banal platitudes,” which is how I’d describe much of this post.
Obviously and literally everything is temporary and will be replaced by something better. And those who are born into it will call it “temporary garbage.”
Thanks for the bonus ad hominems. Made it all more convincing.
I mean, if you don’t like refactoring, which is my absolute favorite, it’s hard to believe you understand software engineering and software architecture.
Tedium absolutely exists in coding. And is usually a sign of bad interfaces and/or architecture.
For most of us it wasn’t really about getting the user to do X. It’s getting the user to do X at 1/10th of the price, 10x the speed, and the user is left absolutely amazed.
Magic is for the user to experience. Not for the user of the programming language.