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by abalashov 4mo ago
This is an underappreciated bit of insight and perspective, and I thank you for sharing it. Thoughts that really stood out for congruence with my own experience: > Most people with the knack for programming and thinking in systems know t
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by abalashov 4mo ago
Having descended from a humanities social background and blundered into professional programming rather incidentally, a lot of this resonates with me. I've frequently been credited as a person who can really string all the disparate el
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I think you're right about that.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Cool.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
> many, many humans derive a significant chunk of their self-worth and life's purpose from their jobs. Men, or women? Not trying to raise gender role controversies. It's just been my observation, throughout my life experience,
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I get local models to drive applications through MCP (e.g. Google Chrome DevTools) via OpenCode all the time, and do things that would otherwise be very token-intensive and result in pointless meatspin. This is totally possible, and will be
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Just wait for the next model and the next model architecture. Just wait for it, bro.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
What about human actors as a thinly veiled, formal, and not especially people-intensive front-end to AI? Something like a skeleton crew?
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I normally would, but in this case, I simply don't know where to start. The counterargument is that LLMs just don't shift the graph on productivity remotely enough to entertain this level of doomerism. Now, it may be that people a
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Just to be clear, the people engaged in this discussion with any degree of seriousness think... LLMs (large language models) are going to get us there? A bit of touching grass may be warranted.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
That's the point. They aren't.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Versus just packing all their needs and data into context, and RAG (i.e. context)?
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This is a fair and reasonable objection.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
This was a fantastic article and beautifully captured something I had been circling but hadn't quite put into words: > The notetaking people—and I say this with all the love in the world—are never, like, a researcher at the cutting
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Stealing.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Sounds like an insufficiency of prompting depth to me! </bogs off to Davos>
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I just turned 40 and am right there with you. I speak out of both sides of the mouth, having been a self-employed beneficiary of remote work since _my_ early 20s -- I was doing the digital nomad thing before it got very common. However, whe
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by abalashov 5mo ago
And what you will get, of course, is (perhaps convincing enough) performative mimicry of "telling it like it is", kind of like when suburban white people rap.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Very interesting. Thank you for that, and I say so with due recognition that my response wasn't really aimed at the central idea of your comment. Thank you for humouring it anyway!
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Ironically, the ability of LLMs to give contextually appropriate answers seemingly applicable to your exact situation is seen to be the major selling point of "AI" by its boosters. Not endorsing, don't shoot messenger.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Yeah, except that Big Head was, as far as I understood, just sleepwalking or floating through life. He more or less wholly lacked that unquenchable thirst for money that motivates MBA frat boys to yell at balding beta cucks to type the code
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by abalashov 5mo ago
Yeah, we know it's all atoms and entropy and dust to dust and the heat death of the universe in the end, and nothing means anything. But during our short time living in human society and trying to find meaning in our existence, this cu
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I thought it was pretty well-established that conspiracists aren't deterred with facts, and that their commitments to the conspiracy theory are essentially emotional and/or in-group identitarian?
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I agree, with the caveat that when your pointy-haired-boss doesn't realise they're the idiots and you're not the idiot...
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by abalashov 5mo ago
It's not just about the question--it's also about what's in the answer.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I put spam robocallers / scammers on the phone with voice AI all the time, after navigating their IVR and intentionally requesting to speak to a human scam-agent. This in no way deters them calling.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
I care about developing people's judgment, longer term. You care about developing people's judgment, longer term. Does capitalism, or the managerial-business class that only sees 6 months out?
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by abalashov 5mo ago
It's absolutely a net loss, but the $55k deficiency when I walked away was worse. However, I realise that this was an artifact of the recession. Less flippantly: I look at it as a question of government distorting the housing market wi
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by abalashov 5mo ago
You're tired of AI? Buddy, I'm tired of AI. We're all tired of AI.
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by abalashov 5mo ago
It is my experience that people who see things that way and people who see things the opposite way truly inhabit incommensurable realities.

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