This is public news. There should be free resources available. They should be the resources published here. Nobody's saying journalists shouldn't be paid. But that doesn't mean all public access to public news should be…
Exceptionally succinct and thought provoking. Well done.
Sorry, I can't think of a single plaintext editors, even going back to things like vi and ed, which don't support find and replace. Markdown was designed for plaintext editors. Plaintext editors are - by the definition…
I agree. I feel if github was owned/run by people passionate about code and open source software, no code repos be banned, if not just because it's consuming resources contrary to the mission. It is owned/run by…
Markdown was explicitly designed to be a lightweight markup language for formatting text in a plaintext editor. You will not get any joy reading/editing non-primitive things in a markdown language not designed for…
Exactly, you just confirmed how complicated, complex and varied markdown rendering is, which is exactly why it should be left to markdown applications. The OS should be able to natively open plaintext. The joy of…
The algorithm is cheap and simple. A human brain requires decades of experience and information to train it to be generally useful. An AI model requires a similar equivalent scale of information and time to train it to…
They weren't out-competed by the guys at the frontier labs, they were out-competed by massive piles of cash and compute that were only available to unscrupulous businesses.
> I don't think a system maximizing enjoyment would be any better. That's why I mentioned autonomy too. People like working and being valuable and choosing to add value. The issue is the current economic system doesn't…
I disagree that what you're describing isn't just another angle of "broken economic system". The broken economic system is the lack of perceived individual choice, and the priority of business decisions and business…
> As a software engineer this is part of my life, and always has been. I may have been working on a software product for the last 3 years, and suddenly one morning I find out that another company has released a similar…
> The amount of hours devoted to sports in US schools is unbelievable... Most of these kids will not be athletes. The same could be said for a lot of other subjects too. Physical activity/sports has far, far more…
The way I see it, your teeth are just a particularly heavily used part of the body, like fingers. A good portion of people go their entire life without having any issues at all with their fingers. Think about how you…
In the context of software, I think "how old is old" depends on how web based the software has been over its lifetime. I think 8 years is old for software that has heavily Web based like Deno. But Windows and Emacs have…
We should just throw in the towel now then, I guess. I don't disagree with you, but now what? Seriously - if we accept humans are just generally losing to AI now, what's the right thing for us to do now? I dunno.…
I agree. There's definitely value in it. But I think you put it well that the problem is making it all accompanying. e.g. > Something that people learn quickly when they work with me is that my approach to pretty much…
This post has the same vibe as the best/worst of modern tech leadership principals. I feel these things are like a rorschach test for an individuals current position corporate psychopathy scale. There are times in my…
I think the negative impact lots of humans regularly experience from Google's approach to business is far more than the benefit of the very, very specific learning that "this idea doesn't make enough money for Google…
Sorry, I don't understand your point. Can you state what actual point you're trying to make, rather than just picking each of my sentences and saying you're not so sure or you disagree? I could do the same to you, but…
> If by "this" you mean "an LLM [reproducing] copyrighted material No. I have absolutely no doubt that happens, and I'm not defending it or encouraging it. My point is whilst it technically might be illegal and…
Because if it's feasible for any company with a war chest to start a court case about a competitor maybe having a matching line of code to theirs via an LLM, then basically every single company with a warchest would be…
I'm fully aware of lots of times powerful companies have used the courts to protect their business. My point is basically all of the powerful companies are elbow deep in LLMs to the extent of some sort of mutually…
I think this is the definition of a polarising topic. It's very hard to hold a sensible middle ground without everyone wanting to take it to extremes of either "AI is just useless autocomplete" or "AI has solved…
> I would argue that was an especially privileged moat over the last 20 years powered by the rise of FAANG. I agree. I was going to touch on this, but I was trying to practice smaller walls of text - I do think AI has…
> PS: You have intrinsic value, and your skills will also remain valuable, if even for how it teaches you to approach complex problems and think deeply. I appreciated this, but I feel the crux of the issue is this is…
This is public news. There should be free resources available. They should be the resources published here. Nobody's saying journalists shouldn't be paid. But that doesn't mean all public access to public news should be…
Exceptionally succinct and thought provoking. Well done.
Sorry, I can't think of a single plaintext editors, even going back to things like vi and ed, which don't support find and replace. Markdown was designed for plaintext editors. Plaintext editors are - by the definition…
I agree. I feel if github was owned/run by people passionate about code and open source software, no code repos be banned, if not just because it's consuming resources contrary to the mission. It is owned/run by…
Markdown was explicitly designed to be a lightweight markup language for formatting text in a plaintext editor. You will not get any joy reading/editing non-primitive things in a markdown language not designed for…
Exactly, you just confirmed how complicated, complex and varied markdown rendering is, which is exactly why it should be left to markdown applications. The OS should be able to natively open plaintext. The joy of…
The algorithm is cheap and simple. A human brain requires decades of experience and information to train it to be generally useful. An AI model requires a similar equivalent scale of information and time to train it to…
They weren't out-competed by the guys at the frontier labs, they were out-competed by massive piles of cash and compute that were only available to unscrupulous businesses.
> I don't think a system maximizing enjoyment would be any better. That's why I mentioned autonomy too. People like working and being valuable and choosing to add value. The issue is the current economic system doesn't…
I disagree that what you're describing isn't just another angle of "broken economic system". The broken economic system is the lack of perceived individual choice, and the priority of business decisions and business…
> As a software engineer this is part of my life, and always has been. I may have been working on a software product for the last 3 years, and suddenly one morning I find out that another company has released a similar…
> The amount of hours devoted to sports in US schools is unbelievable... Most of these kids will not be athletes. The same could be said for a lot of other subjects too. Physical activity/sports has far, far more…
The way I see it, your teeth are just a particularly heavily used part of the body, like fingers. A good portion of people go their entire life without having any issues at all with their fingers. Think about how you…
In the context of software, I think "how old is old" depends on how web based the software has been over its lifetime. I think 8 years is old for software that has heavily Web based like Deno. But Windows and Emacs have…
We should just throw in the towel now then, I guess. I don't disagree with you, but now what? Seriously - if we accept humans are just generally losing to AI now, what's the right thing for us to do now? I dunno.…
I agree. There's definitely value in it. But I think you put it well that the problem is making it all accompanying. e.g. > Something that people learn quickly when they work with me is that my approach to pretty much…
This post has the same vibe as the best/worst of modern tech leadership principals. I feel these things are like a rorschach test for an individuals current position corporate psychopathy scale. There are times in my…
I think the negative impact lots of humans regularly experience from Google's approach to business is far more than the benefit of the very, very specific learning that "this idea doesn't make enough money for Google…
Sorry, I don't understand your point. Can you state what actual point you're trying to make, rather than just picking each of my sentences and saying you're not so sure or you disagree? I could do the same to you, but…
> If by "this" you mean "an LLM [reproducing] copyrighted material No. I have absolutely no doubt that happens, and I'm not defending it or encouraging it. My point is whilst it technically might be illegal and…
Because if it's feasible for any company with a war chest to start a court case about a competitor maybe having a matching line of code to theirs via an LLM, then basically every single company with a warchest would be…
I'm fully aware of lots of times powerful companies have used the courts to protect their business. My point is basically all of the powerful companies are elbow deep in LLMs to the extent of some sort of mutually…
I think this is the definition of a polarising topic. It's very hard to hold a sensible middle ground without everyone wanting to take it to extremes of either "AI is just useless autocomplete" or "AI has solved…
> I would argue that was an especially privileged moat over the last 20 years powered by the rise of FAANG. I agree. I was going to touch on this, but I was trying to practice smaller walls of text - I do think AI has…
> PS: You have intrinsic value, and your skills will also remain valuable, if even for how it teaches you to approach complex problems and think deeply. I appreciated this, but I feel the crux of the issue is this is…