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by richardw 2y ago
And it’s the short wrong answer. I get absolutely zero benefit if you or anyone else uses it. This is not for you or I, it’s for young people who don’t know what to do. I’m a person who uses a few LLM’s, and I do so because I see the risks
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by richardw 2y ago
Because what is shared is overconfidence in the face of a system that has humble beginnings but many people trying to improve it. People have a natural bias against massive changes, and assume the status quo is fixed. I’m open to all possib
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by richardw 2y ago
Surely nobody has that binary a view? What are the likely impacts over the next 1, 5, 10, 20 years. People getting into development now have the most incredible technology to help them skill up, but also more risk than we had in decades pas
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My last project made millions for the bank I was working at within the first 2 years and is now a case study at one of our extremely large vendors who you have definitely heard of. I conceptualised it, designed it, wrote the most important
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by richardw 2y ago
"You seem to confuse" "Your analogy with the automakers seems puzzlingly irrelevant" "Your take is rather romantic." That's pretty charged language focused on the person not the argument, so if you're
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The analogy is that Japanese cars were initially utterly uncompetitive, and the arrogance of those who benefited from the status quo meant they were unable to adapt when change came. Humans improved those cars, humans are currently improvin
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by richardw 2y ago
For those less confident: U.S. (and German) automakers were absolutely sure that the Japanese would never be able to touch them. Then Koreans. Now Chinese. Now there are tariffs and more coming to save jobs. Betting against AI (or increasin
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by richardw 2y ago
I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t a heavy line drawing creation. As someone who first did those in the 90’s and almost immediately learned their limits, I think this is nice because it doesn’t overclaim. It’s just a view, not a thes
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by richardw 2y ago
Ah, missed that. New info, thank you!
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Googling produces: “ Bluebottles are similar to the Portuguese Man o’ War (Physalia physalis) in appearance and behavior, but are smaller and less venomous. And unlike the Portuguese Man o’ War, bluebottle stings have yet to cause any human
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by richardw 2y ago
Honestly, it was just what it enabled. U.S. had cheap/free texting, so the network effect of just staying where you are was huge. Outside the US, there was only expensive texting so there was a latent need. A friend asked me to use it
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by richardw 2y ago
A term I've heard since the ...2000's?...is "focus+context" [1], often used in visualisation. I'm looking for a very similar UI construct right now, for balancing simple high-level terms for non-technical people but
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by richardw 2y ago
See my sibling comment. Neither give any benefit over just sitting there and being a plant.
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Take either of them and tell me why nature would have optimised for that rather than other features, like leaves. Energy isn't infinite so genetic changes optimise for easier-to-achieve ends rather than somehow jumping past all animals
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It’s a fair assumption because there’s no genetic benefit to being a smart plant. Why would nature make that? Opposable thumbs mean we have the ability to use smarts, so genetics walked the path to consciousness over many generations. A sma
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by richardw 2y ago
I dunno. They’re starting with this as their default universe, right at the age where you pick up skills fastest. I’m worried about my kid but also the dinosaurs I know, who don’t even know there’s an asteroid. I had a realisation today: AI
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by richardw 2y ago
Try turn search on in ChatGPT and see if it picks up the online references? I've seen it hit a few references and then get back to me with info summarised from multiple. That's pretty useful. Obviously your case might be different
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by richardw 2y ago
I take your point but keeping an app current enough to maintain the ability to hire, is hardest in this area. Not like SQL or C for example. Knowing that can be useful for decades. You build knowledge that persists - experience is a good th
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by richardw 2y ago
I’d guess they’re already using this signal and if not they’d be more likely to do it at competitively high speed and internally, where they can control and iterate? Maybe crypto HFT since that’s a big more sluggish.
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by richardw 2y ago
Thanks for the warning! I’ve been meaning to check it out.
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Front end is a young person’s game because of the endless churn. It’s where I started and I love delivering a tight, next-level UX. But I’ve spent the last decade in enterprise distributed, microservices, integration, data etc with a ton of
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by richardw 2y ago
“Yeah we pivoted to hiring and blackmail only later. Killer skills went to hiring, dodgy office romances went to blackmail. Profits are excellent.”
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by richardw 2y ago
Because they’ve gone to great lengths to influence what is legal. Humanity should have more than a “we told you so”. It’ll also reduce more of this BS in future, when people act against all our interests with no repercussions, sailing super
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by richardw 2y ago
So I’d lose the bet? I’m not sure I’d be any worse off than those winning it!
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by richardw 2y ago
Another reply, different thought. I’d be keen to see what eg Carmack is up to. Someone outside of the usual suspects. There is a fashion to everything and right now LLM’s are a distraction on an S curve. The map is not the territory and lan
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by richardw 2y ago
> but most of the current generation of AI hype are a limited number of algorithms and approaches, mixed and matched in different ways, with other features bolted on to try and corral them into behaving as we hope. it is much more realis
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by richardw 2y ago
Two things can both be true. I keep arguing both sides because: 1 Unless you’re aware of near term limits you think AI is going to the stars next year. 2 Architectures change. The only thing that doesn’t change is that we generally push on,
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by richardw 2y ago
Done: https://www.producthunt.com/products/product-hunt/alternativ...
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by richardw 2y ago
I think another axis is an underlying cultural difference: balance of collectivism vs individualism. China can say “there will be a factory here” because it’s overall good to have one, even if a few noses are out of joint. In California it’
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Any big grouping can compete if there’s enough will. Look at how eg Russia has rejigged much of its war machine during the Ukraine war. Look at how Ukraine has turned themselves inside out to compete. At some level of pressure, countries tr

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