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by apsurd 7mo ago
AI dramatically increases velocity. But is velocity productivity? Productivity relative to which scope: you, the team, the department, the company? The question is really, velocity _of what_? I got this from a HN comment. It really hit for
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by apsurd 7mo ago
I get that but it's also why i'm calling it out. it does come off as superior! and then goes on to superior-ily talk about selflessness.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Well framed. I will add though that it's not entirely indicative of how much one thinks is a lot; it can also be, as was explained to me, that for ultra wealthy people, the price, at any magnitude becomes a rounding error. half a milli
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by apsurd 7mo ago
From your link: > Closing that gap, building systems that capture and encode process knowledge rather than just decision records, is the highest-value problem in enterprise AI right now. I buy this. What exactly is the export artifact th
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by apsurd 7mo ago
AI tends to be a buzz kill on products because it sends the signal "i can't be bothered to craft this deliberately." So why then should we bother to interact with the product deliberately. Around here most know how hard and t
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by apsurd 7mo ago
Doubtful that any one dude could influence the model to that extent, unless deliberately weighted. Then again i don't know what the hell i'm talking about. From what i gather, openAi particular flavor of response is from reinforce
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by apsurd 7mo ago
damn, i'm finding this LLM response actually useful. It feels weird.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
First impression is that's really his writing. He's a professional writer. Thing is it's like trying to be a professional writer. very different from actually good writing, as in literature. art. Nothing against Mr. Ferris, j
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by apsurd 7mo ago
what would the older person say? in your experience.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
self non-improvement. love it. existing
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by apsurd 7mo ago
There's a lot of "I"s in your paragraph there. I think it's worth it to be ok with everyone being a little bit in the same boat of wanting to self-help, then becoming enamored with buddhist ideas, then grappling with eve
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by apsurd 7mo ago
The cables at the bottom of the ocean.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
That sounds like a ton of cognitive effort.
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by apsurd 7mo ago
I don't think people read prompt sessions, not even their own. Instinctively I think the sessions are valuable because they capture how we arrived at the thing. in practice it's just "slop" to everyone that wasn't t
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by apsurd 8mo ago
tossing you a head nod: i stumbled upon this book at a children's toy store during xmas shopping https://www.labyrinthbooks.com/the-bad-seed/ made me cry. i bought the hard cover and im saving it for when my niece
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by apsurd 8mo ago
This makes me think about "main character energy." Now that i'm an uncle, I see firsthand how much the little ones love to see themselves. They always want to play with my phone to make silly videos, of mostly themselves. it
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by apsurd 8mo ago
Can you help me understand the difference between "short prompt for what I want (next)" vs medium to high complexity tasks? What i mean is, in practice, how does one even get to a a high complexity task? What does that look like?
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by apsurd 8mo ago
> Not exactly sure what you mean by "looks and works different every time" w.r.t. web apps. Not the parent but I take it to mean _across_ web-apps from various services the UI looks and works differently, vs every spreadsheet i
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by apsurd 8mo ago
This is a good point. I did indeed default into "content = media" whereas yes in fact "content" used to mean the meat, the substance. Thanks for replying, made me think about it.
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by apsurd 8mo ago
I've always stubbornly bemoaned how everyone seems to love to work in spreadsheets. Undeniably the world's power-tool. I've never liked them, never learned to work with them, and instead spent 20 years learning to program and
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by apsurd 8mo ago
> if you get your news on HN, significant portion that make it to the top are LLM-generated. You mean this anecdotally I assume. This makes me think of the split between people who read the article and people who _only_ read the comments
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by apsurd 8mo ago
Axios got traction because it heavily condensed news into more scannable content for the twitter, insta, Tok crowd. So AI is this on massive steroids. It is unsettling but it seems a recurring need to point out that across the board many of
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by apsurd 8mo ago
What is the difference between writing and content?
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by apsurd 8mo ago
Yes, your message is coming from the pov of economics and business, as makes sense in this thread! That's my mistake, I took your message more sentimentally. I've used tailoring probably 5 times in my life, with the only recurring
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by apsurd 8mo ago
I mean, you do you. Clothing is really _fashion_ for tons of people. Fashion is art. People like art.
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by apsurd 8mo ago
sounds like the author is discovering business. I didn't read the article, but yes, going from 0-1,1-10 is really hard and really rewarding. And it got easier with the Internet. Going from 10-1k and 1k-1M is a different ball-game. Alwa
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by apsurd 8mo ago
Well I agree and support that! Everyone cares about something. That's good and healthy. There is a ton of value in intentionality. I realize I'm defending against this idea that if you don't do a given thing it must mean you
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by apsurd 8mo ago
There is the "I don't (have to) give a fuck" counter-signaling. But also what about people that really don't care too much, out of ignorance even, or just fatigue. Sure there is intentionality in there, but do we really
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by apsurd 8mo ago
Agree, the parent comment leaves no room for nuance so people end up damned if they do and damned if they don't. I do think thinking through the extremes and motivations and intentions of behavior is worth it. But confident conclusions
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by apsurd 8mo ago
Well, i've always been a fan of the island architecture that effectively mounts root nodes as little islands of isolated state, yes. Mainly this avoids the hell that global state SPA patterns produce: redux, reducer patterns in general

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