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by keeda 5mo ago
> I foresee a wave of entrepreneurship coming. AI will empower more people to provide useful services directly to other people, with less middlemen and menial work, and more direct problem solving. Yes, and there is already preliminary
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by keeda 5mo ago
All this rambling with citations but no coherent original thought weaving several conflicting ideas together. Illustrative example: AI is simultaneously going to take all the jobs yet it sucks and nobody is getting any real productivity out
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by keeda 5mo ago
Funnily enough, my LinkedIn feed is full of managers who are ecstatic at being able to "code" again, so it applies to developers trapped in the role of a manager as well!
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by keeda 5mo ago
Great read. While I've not worked at a big company in a couple of years, this resonates with many things that I imagined is happening inside large, tech-savvy orgs, reinforced by observations of the industry and anecdotes from insiders
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by keeda 5mo ago
I'm probably being overly charitable, but I would have said the same thing except in a positive context, because I've wanted to do the same thing at times.
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by keeda 5mo ago
The general public may not be their customer base (except maybe for ChatGPT, which is primarily a consumer app), but it is the voter base. The AI backlash has been brewing for a while and is bubbling over in the form of data-center pushba
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by keeda 5mo ago
I think it's a matter of perception because I didn't interpret any of them as being gleeful about it. If you think about it, "AI will take your jobs and maybe destroy the world" is horrible, horrible marketing -- like, y
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by keeda 5mo ago
Putting some more numbers out there (some of the links are broken, but numbers look about right): https://github.com/danielmiessler/Substrate/blob/main/Data/K... Knowledge worker compensation is 35
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by keeda 5mo ago
Yes, but I do worry about junior knowledge worker job loss. These models are very good (and getting better) at the vast dark matter of "donkey work" that happens in knowledge-based industries -- work typically done by junior devs
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by keeda 5mo ago
GitHub has been publishing their growth numbers since at least 2016: https://octoverse.github.com/2016/ However, they have reported numbers along rather inconsistent dimensions. Like, historically they've focused
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by keeda 5mo ago
I'm not a researcher in the official sense, my interest is that of a parent whose kids are interested in programming and will be graduating into a world upended by AI, and how I can best prepare them for it. I always look to empirical
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by keeda 5mo ago
I hadn't looked at that study you selected, but yeah the methodology conflicts with the abstract (Also it low-key seems to be an ad for "Flexi 2.0.") It does seems to be a shady paper, with a small N and in a journal of quest
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by keeda 5mo ago
For coding specifically (there are many studies out there by now, but I know of these offhand): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/14/10/4115 -- probably the earliest one of its kind, finds over-reliance degrades
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by keeda 5mo ago
Actually, you're both right. Using AI as a supplementary learning aid -- i.e. students use AI as a personalized tutor but still do the assignments themselves -- produces better outcomes. But using AI as a crutch -- i.e. using it to do
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by keeda 5mo ago
I think the key word is ability , and I fully agree with that. Using GenAI as a teaching aid can supercharge learning, especially as it makes it very easy to learn by doing. The problem is that people use GenAI to do and hence don't
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by keeda 5mo ago
> Proof that the suit alone doesn't make anyone Iron Man. I do believe that is a running theme in the Iron Man comics and movies.
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by keeda 5mo ago
Personally, I think Jensen Huang had the most relevant message in his 2024 graduation speech; it transcends AI or any other contemporary issues, and it is simultaneously something people might not want to hear yet something they need to: &q
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by keeda 5mo ago
I didn't mean to imply Uber was "right" or it unilaterally got laws adjusted in its favor. Both sides had to adapt, but very clearly regulations had to be significantly adjusted as well: https://www.blackcarnews.co
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by keeda 5mo ago
> But quantitative changes in an activity produce qualitative changes. Interesting take. I think a corollary is that the qualitative changes are in the economics of things. And more than the scale, it is the value of those economic eff
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by keeda 5mo ago
This is just part of the slog that autonomous driving was always going to be. Many many years ago I happened to be in a conversation with one of the guys on a team that participated in the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge. It was only the second
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by keeda 5mo ago
That's fair, I'm not a finance person, just meant to say that this is costing them way more than they would have liked at a critical stage in their corporate evolution. I'm curious though what your take is.
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by keeda 5mo ago
Oh, for sure it could be much worse -- they could have been in xAI's place! ;-) But while this is a "good problem to have" it would have been an even better problem to avoid in the first place, because it seemed avoidable. No
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by keeda 5mo ago
At least from the outside TK seems to be doing well given GCP's growth. My completely uninformed assessment is that he stepped in as the disciplined adult in the room to override Google's otherwise lackadaisical approach to enterp
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by keeda 5mo ago
And when Anthropic runs Claude on Allbirds' GPUs they'll give it a SOLE.md.
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by keeda 5mo ago
Whoa. I've said before, but I think Dario severely underestimated the coming demand and ensuing need for compute, and would need to pay through the nose when the crunch hit. I suspect that Google deal also worked out better for Google.
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by keeda 5mo ago
Makes sense, but it seems to me that the ability to launder disinformation is more a function of the trust people put in LLMs than any inherent property of their own. As some other comments indicate, this also was and is a problem with Wiki
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by keeda 5mo ago
I totally agree, centralization is dangerous, ideally we want any output to be corroborated by multiple, independent sources of truth. But given that the alternative is the absolutely unregulated, unaccountable, wild west of arbitrary conte
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by keeda 5mo ago
> The problem is LLMs have no capacity for shame. I know what you mean but I can't help but be cheeky: https://www.fastcompany.com/91383271/googles-chatbot-apologi... Jokes aside, shame does not change the un
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by keeda 5mo ago
This comment thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47954579 is relevant. TL;DR: Google is heavily stuffing more and more ads into every monetizable SERP, which explains the ever-increasing revenue. But my theory (expa
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by keeda 5mo ago
> But it is another good example that "AI" is just glorified search and there is not reasoning or thinking going on behind the covers. I don't think that follows. This is just LLMs being, for a lack of a better word, &qu

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