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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah it's just a totally different thing than what the thread starter was talking about. This may be good advice for bootstrapping a business (though personally I feel like people who do this are being pretty hostile to their customers
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yes! No tool has ever helped me more with the blank page problem.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
By the way, I fear I'm harping on "AI tools can be really useful" here, but I really find that learning new things is my favorite way to use these tools. You said that you don't want to use them to generate code and just
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Hey! I relate to this! And thank you for sharing. This happened to me when I was going through a similar transition as the OP is highlighting. At first, creating software was difficult and novel. Then after getting over that first learning
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah, a very interesting metric to know would be how many tokens of prompt data (that is allowed to be used for training) the different products are seeing per day.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I don't think my comment implied that the answers to these questions aren't knowable! And indeed, I agree that the deals to pay for default status in different channels is a big part of that answer. So then apply that to Open AI.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
No, "authoritarian" is a word with a specific meaning. I'm not sure about applying it to Sam Altman, but Marc Andreessen has expressed views that I consider authoritarian in his victory lap tour since last year's preside
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah but I remember when search first started getting integrated with the browser and the "switch search engine" thing was significantly more prominent. Then Google became the default and nobody ever switched it and the rest is hi
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by sanderjd 1y ago
It felt fake and not innovative to me in the late 00s, so I'd say yes, it may have always been the way.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
> You can also go in and fix the issues yourself, but if you're working with an unfamiliar API in an unfamiliar domain, then you still have to do the traditional task of reading the documentation and web searching, which defeats th
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah, I similarly have not had great success for creating entire systems / applications for exactly this reason. I have had no success at all in not needing to go in and understand what it wrote, and when I do that, I find it largely n
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I think the software quality nosedive significantly predates generative AI. I think it's too early to say whether AI is exacerbating the problem (though I'm sympathetic to the view that it is) or improving it, or just maintaining
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Honestly I hope this is true. I recognize this is a risky thing to say, for my own employment prospects as a software engineer. But if companies like Facebook could run their operations with fewer engineers, and those people could instead s
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah I think I do already see this happening in my work. It's clearly very beneficial, but its benefit is also overestimated. This can lead to some disenchantment and even backlash where people conclude it's all useless. But it is
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Isn't this literally just "productivity growth". You (and I think the article) are describing the ability to do more work with the same number of people, which seems like the economic definition of productivity.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I read the point as being that angels can't really afford to invest broadly enough to hit those exceptional performers.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Ok
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by sanderjd 1y ago
No, I don't think they are all atheists. But I do think they tend to roll their eyes at the sort of mysticism you're describing. The two things are not the same.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
The closer you can get to doing so, the better.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I agree that there's a trade-off in filtering, but I really just don't resonate with this "cheating" issue. I haven't run into this thing where I'm talking to a video AI, but maybe I'll sing a different tu
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah I hear that. My underlying point here is: Maybe you don't actually need a full time employee doing this job, if someone can successfully do it by spending a little time farming out to subcontractors.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
The advantage of a larger pool of candidates is not mostly a financial benefit, IMO. The benefit is mostly the ability to hire from a larger pool of people especially with a specialized skillset, and also to have less of an echo chamber. Bu
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by sanderjd 1y ago
And similarly forbid them from using AIs while they code on that work laptop in person? Are employees forbidden from using AIs for work? If not, why require that during evaluation? If it's not required during evaluation in person, why
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by sanderjd 1y ago
The thing I'm always curious about with this is: What is the actual bad thing happening here? Is the subcontracted work not good enough? Well, then the problem is that the work is not good enough. Is the person not contributing in othe
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yeah I similarly find this baffling. This very flatly would not work in any job I've had, whether in person or remote.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Very helpful, thanks!
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Yep, nothing around us would work if quantum mechanics didn't work just the way people figured out that it works. It's just that most people, even those who understand it best, still find it to be pretty wild that things actually
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by sanderjd 1y ago
Basically, your point of view as expressed in this thread is mystical rather than scientific. That's fine if it's what you're into, but don't be surprised if it makes more scientific types roll their eyes.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
> We are also now limited by systematics when using supernovae for cosmology. Could you say more about this part? I don't know what that means.
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by sanderjd 1y ago
I feel like relying on this thesis that people won't overthrow the world order because everyone has benefited so much is an odd choice at this particular moment.

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