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by keeda 3mo ago
Am I the only one who thought that was a given based on phenomena like this: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/bajau-sea... we all are not quite freediving most of our waking lives, but the daily
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by keeda 3mo ago
> Labor productivity was, in fact, slower in the first three years of our AI era than during the information technology boom that began in the mid 1990s. That's a bit of a misleading statement, as it uses inaccurate terminology an
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by keeda 3mo ago
Maybe it's my PTSD from developing iOS apps speaking, but this reads to me more like an indictment of developing on Apple platforms than developing with AI. Even if it's partly about AI from a year ago. I haven't really done
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by keeda 3mo ago
I suppose the earring never whispered anything about putting glue on pizza?
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by keeda 3mo ago
A relevant article I found from an industry insider (which could indicate bias but also relevance): https://www.whitefiber.com/blog/understanding-gpu-lifecycle Which has this anecdotal data point: >... when I left
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by keeda 3mo ago
Computer science is not a great example for this. I could ELI5 most of the terms you listed (and I actually have done so for many of them!) This is because it's pretty easy to map these concepts to everyday physical objects. Once a c
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by keeda 3mo ago
I suspect the market harm angle is not going to work out either based on the one study I know of on the topic: https://www.nber.org/papers/w34777 > We document a tripling in the number of new books coming to market
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by keeda 3mo ago
> That depends on the answer to a question that hasn't been answered yet. It has been answered in a sense, because the courts (so far) have ruled that training is Fair Use. Whether this is similar to a human learning from a book
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by keeda 3mo ago
If you had some goal to achieve -- whatever it was, professional or personal -- would you rather expend X resources to achieve it or (X - Y), where Y was a significant % of X? And if those resources had an environmental impact, and if you w
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by keeda 3mo ago
Ehh, Tomi Ahonen always came across as someone who was letting his emotions cloud his judgment (maybe the N9 was his pet project?) which was not great for a "consultant." Sure enough when I looked around there was substantial crit
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by keeda 3mo ago
Or maybe "complimenting your commodities"?
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by keeda 3mo ago
The environmental impact discussion is always incomplete because it only looks at AI in isolation. LLMs do exactly nothing by themselves, they are always used to facilitate some human endeavor, so we need to take a holistic view of the syst
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by keeda 3mo ago
It doesn't even have to be monied interests. Media as a whole is getting severely disrupted by AI and they (somewhat understandably) see the technology as being built on top of their content without recompense. As such they will latc
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by keeda 3mo ago
I did the napkin math ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46984659 ) -- LLMs + humans are way more resource efficient than humans alone, even if they speed you up by only 5%. It's not because LLMs are that efficient,
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by keeda 3mo ago
OSS does not necessarily mean the contributions are from "goodwill or part-time contributions". In fact, I would wager the most widely used OSS software is largely written by contributors paid to do so by corporations. At least fo
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by keeda 3mo ago
Yeah, but the topic of discussion is presumably FSD that actually works ;-) And before people jump in to say "have you tried it, it works" yes I have a Tesla and FSD has tried to kill me multiple times already. Including jumping a
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by keeda 3mo ago
I'd say it's more of a rent vs buy situation, in that there is a particular company-specific scale at which the TCO's cross over. For smaller companies, public clouds absolutely make more sense, but at larger scales on-prem i
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by keeda 3mo ago
Somewhat related, I once met the author of a book about sleep [1] and asked about my specific case. At that time I was splitting half my time across two continents 10 time zones apart but working largely in the same timezone, about 2 - 3 mo
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by keeda 3mo ago
The underlying MBA principle is that companies strongly prefer to focus on their "core competencies." This makes sense because the distraction to a business could be much costlier than the extra money spent in outsourcing non-core
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by keeda 3mo ago
That's more the fate of consumer services though, where the product is typically given away for free and the need for revenues and growth eventually leads to the enshittification you describe. TFA is about SaaS products, which tend to
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by keeda 3mo ago
This study finds increased sales and value per customer from GenAI integration at a large Chinese online retailer (all the way back in 2023-24!) The customer Q&A scenario is one of those covered, except the customer talks directly to th
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by keeda 3mo ago
Glad to see he's recovered from his little flesh wound.
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by keeda 3mo ago
I think I can put the finger on how it differs and why the AI version seems more "generic." I think the difference is in the "post production" that became more common in pop music in the 2010's. I'm not at all
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by keeda 3mo ago
Alternate viewpoint: the ideas and insights in the content are more important than the voice. The voice absolutely is critical in getting your ideas across and making a point effectively, but there is value in having fresh ideas being broad
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by keeda 3mo ago
If I'm working on something open source I actually would not mind as much. (I can understand why many folks don't like the models being trained with impunity on ALL the open-source code out there, but personally I think it's
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by keeda 3mo ago
> Training included trillions of tokens of Cursor data which capture a wide-range of user interactions with codebases and software tools. This -- training on work done on hard, real-world tasks -- seems to be how most frontier models a
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by keeda 3mo ago
I used to think Claude Code was released much earlier too, and my initial theory was that OpenAI as a follower had the benefit of more powerful models... but when I looked it up, Codex was first released in April 2025 [1], whereas CC Beta w
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by keeda 3mo ago
That analogy only works partially, because when IE6 was released, it was the best browser by far. IE only became terrible once MSFT actively stopped developing it, and other browsers kept getting better. On the other hand, Claude Code was t
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by keeda 3mo ago
Interestingly I just skimmed through a video linked in TFA: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlGRN8jh2RI and Boris Cherny explains that they chose TypeScript and React for Claude Code primarily because it was "on distri
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by keeda 3mo ago
>... Dario bizarrely copying Altman’s 2023 fire-and-brimstone playbook that had already massively backfired. I've said this before, they always knew it was terrible marketing, but they just can't help themselves because they

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