- simplylukeGrowing up in the internet age (I'm 28 now) it took me until well into my 20s to realize how many classes of problems can be solved in 30 seconds on a phone call vs hours on a computer.
- I was there at the time, for anyone outside of the core networking teams it was functionally a snow day. I had my manager's phone number, and basically established that everyone was in the same boat and went to the park.
Core services teams had backup communication systems in place prior to that though. IIRC it was a private IRC on separate infra specifically for that type of scenario.
- A lot of negative comments here, many of which I agree with, but Germany opposing this is a net-good thing given how influential they are within the EU.
- Bambu is who's winning this space and largely took 3d printing from a hobby for its own sake to "it's another tool in your shop".
My bambu was FAR cheaper than a comparable prusa, and I took it out of the box, put filament in it, and it started producing effectively perfect prints immediately.
- Attributing the actions being taken by the UK (and much of the EU) to a lack of understanding is a quite generous interpretation. That may have been true a generation ago, but it's not now.
Many of us think that they understand a free internet very well, specifically the threats it places on their uses (and abuses) of power, and that the laws are quite well designed to curtail that. The UK currently, without identity verification, arrests 30 people per day for things they say online.
- One of my recurring thoughts reading all kinds of social media posts over the past few years has been to wonder how many of the comments boosting <SPECIFIC NEW LLM RELEASE/TOOL> are being written by AI.
Formulaic, unspecific in results while making extraordinary claims, and always of a specific upbeat tenor.
- From my perspective it’s very convenient that all the new information and competition supports his existing priors that:
1) we need to do various forms of regulation to entrench US closed source market leaders, which happens to increase his company’s value
2) the best way towards improvement in models is not efficiency but continuing to burn ever increasing piles of money, which happens to increase his company’s value
- The situation the author describes sounds like a summer day hike in subalpine terrain at Rainier. I’d do that in a cotton hoodie and jeans, and I recreate in that part of the cascades 12 months a year. Our forecasts are some of the best in the world, and even if they missed the solution to getting rained on in July on a day hike is to walk back to your car a little damp and disgruntled.
Your example actually makes his point almost exactly. The 7 day thru hike is akin to when hiring a data engineering team and investing super heavily makes sense, the day hike is when you’re chatting with users and figuring out the domain. The “wrong” tools are less consequential at the start and when the stakes are lower.
- There’s a broadly believed myth that it produces meaningful professional opportunities among certain folks in the industry. In my observations this is very rarely true, and in many more cases it’s a professional liability.
- Frameworks, compilers, and countless other developments in computing massively expanded the efficiency of programmers and that only expanded the field.
Short of genuine AGI I’ve yet to see a compelling argument why productivity eliminates jobs, when the opposite has been true in every modern economy.
- What's funny is every GenAI "incredible email/essay" would be better communicated with the prompt used to generate it.
- Read both links. 155 is just salary, TC seems to be on the order of $200k for a senior, which is above-median but not top of market for NYC.
- I'm 26, so now a decade removed from the relevant age bracket here, but was one of the first waves to hit high school with a majority of students having smartphones.
There's been a palpable shift in peers (and myself) post-pandemic with regards to phones and social media in particular. A lot more emphasis being placed on being present in person and a lot more skepticism across the board towards phones/social media. Peers are starting to have kids and almost none of them are posting pictures of their kids and when it's come up in conversation they're doing everything they can to delay ipads/smartphones.
- I was a hacker before the entire stack I work in was common or released, and I’ll be one when all our tools change again in the future. I have family who programmed with punch cards.
But I doubt the predictions from men whose net worth depends on the hype they foment.
- This is exactly how I’ve used copilot for over a year now. It’s really helpful! Especially with repetitive code. Certainly worth what my employer pays for it.
The general public has a very different idea of that though and I frequently meet people very surprised the entire profession hasn’t been automated yet based on headlines like this.
- > being shown super human intelligence behind closed doors
This seems to be the "crypto is about to replace fiat for buying day to day goods/services" statement of this hype cycle. I've been hearing it at least since gpt-2 that the secret next iteration will change everything. That was actually probably most true with 2 given how much of a step function improvement 3 + chatGPT were.