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by fhd2 3y ago
Refreshing take! I feel like the last years the tech industry has been increasingly obsessed with outcomes and moving KPIs at all costs. I've seen pretty great (not always financially successful) things come out of people genuinely enj
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by fhd2 3y ago
My thinking exactly! There's FOMO going on (and being fueled by people most of which seem to hope to somehow make money off it), but the barriers to entry for using LLMs are just not that high. When the tools are good enough, I'll
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by fhd2 3y ago
We had only two calls - I'd say it was pretty eye opening so far, for someone pretty far away from marketing like me at least. She focuses on startups though. I think it'll be a few more sessions before I can really tell if it was
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by fhd2 3y ago
I prefer to formulate goals as something I want to achieve, not something I want to do. For me, this year, the number one goal is to become competent at marketing. When I started last year, I told myself I need to get competent at sales, or
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by fhd2 3y ago
I wouldn't call myself an expert, but my gut tells me we're close to a local maximum when it comes to the core capabilities of LLMs. I might be wrong of course. If I'm right, I don't know when or if we'll get out of
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by fhd2 3y ago
People's brains work differently. I enjoy starting from an empty file, it was never an issue for me. But I know quite a few people who struggle until they have some kind of draft in front of them. I also know enough people with program
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by fhd2 3y ago
I think there's some truth to that. I also talk to people sceptical of the model (I'm in Germany, so scepticism is generally not in short supply), but by and large I'm most likely to meet and interact with people who believe
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by fhd2 3y ago
This is well understood in my peer group at least, and as a fractional CTO, I quite routinely find agreement with CEOs and the like on this as well. If you work hard, chances are you're not working smart enough. I think that mode where
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by fhd2 3y ago
SoundCloud is my main thing these days, it seems to have way more of the niche stuff I'm interested in (like game music). Thought it wasn't particularly popular, but I happily recommend it.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Not sure they need to do much in terms of marketing at least. When I started using Godot in earnest last year, only a few nerds seemed to know it. In the past few months I haven't come across a single indie developer not aware of it.
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by fhd2 3y ago
I never understood how people can happily figure out a gigantic, complicated code base like Firefox and are taken aback by learning a little bit about some tool. In your case, was it a thing where working with an unfamiliar tool was simply
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by fhd2 3y ago
"Empirical science" sounds better than "have you tried turning it off and on again?", doesn't it.
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by fhd2 3y ago
You can just download the plantuml.jar and run it with `java -jar planting.jar`, that's how I usually work with it.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Just for one trillion (not "trillions"), that'd be 10 million function calls per server per day, ~7k per minute. Sounds about right to me. They'll surely want to leave some room for traffic spikes, server failures and un
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by fhd2 3y ago
Presumably still with the pants on their legs in that scenario.
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by fhd2 3y ago
Absolutely agree. Those tools you use don't happen to work for me, but that's entirely beside the point. We shouldn't look down on people based on what tools do or do not work for them. What matters is whether they solve the
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by fhd2 3y ago
Touché :D
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by fhd2 3y ago
If nobody addresses their fears in a reasonable fashion, I guess they're gonna find their own solutions. Like smashing machines according to TFA. But that's a specific subset of generative AI they object to. Maybe there are people
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'm not aware of anyone who wants to "prevent AI" - as incredibly ambiguous as that phrase is. What I suppose some people worry about is stuff like: 1. That they will have some means of feeding themselves and their families g
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by fhd2 3y ago
Why do you think it's impossible to regulate? There's a _long_ list of unlawful things that are technically possible, sometimes trivial even. Only _because_ they are possible in the first place, are there laws against them. This p
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by fhd2 3y ago
I wonder to which degree this is because of the academic structures. As you get older you've got students to teach/support, a department to run, grants to apply for, ... And on top of that often a family to feed. This is true in m
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by fhd2 3y ago
I'd find it hard to believe it's not true. There's billions of people out there. Now, finding them, reaching them, that's the challenge.
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by fhd2 3y ago
That's pretty much my approach for side projects: If it's not something I need and enjoy, I don't do it. Not sure about all that artsy "expression" talk. I also truly enjoy building products someone else needs and e
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by fhd2 3y ago
Might just take a while for it to be economical for lots of jobs. The amount of humans is increasing, the amount of natural resources, different story.
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by fhd2 3y ago
I read that as "good for users". To answer that: Can't think of any (beyond small iterative improvements in their products). The problem is that the users don't pay Google (by and large), so their financial success is qu
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by fhd2 3y ago
Not true if they insert themselves as a middle man in order to help you against third party tracking. Google here is a questionable example of that, uBO (no profit motive that I'm aware of, open source) a probably objectively positive
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by fhd2 3y ago
Absolutely. Plus I think I've gained a significant chunk of my understanding-a-new-system and debugging skills from growing up fiddling with Gentoo, Linux From Scratch and what not. Now I make my money from these skills. In this day an
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by fhd2 3y ago
So I'm not alone! Once worked for a Apple-only company using only Apple hardware and even their office and cloud stuff. Thought there can't possibly be a lot of those. To give Microsoft some credit, at least you can run Windows in
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by fhd2 3y ago
Yeah I was wondering if they even know about it :D You'd have to listen to users (at least accidentally) or do some specific data analysis to find out I guess, if nobody on that team uses Edge.
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by fhd2 3y ago
A: "Edge conversations are up 4%! What else can we do to increase them?" B: "Users that already have Edge as their default browser also see these, shouldn't we first fix that?" A: "That wouldn't increase E

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