We already have as much parallelization as companies can afford: Hundreds, if not thousands of new corn varieties, coming from one lab. The budget is the limit. Testing is just expensive. Process improvements come from…
It's often not necessarily about visibility, but real iteration time. For instance, let's say we are doing biology on plants, which is still much easier than doing human trials. No matter how motivated claude might get,…
What can make sense, and what has been my personal experience, is that I have shifted my most draining work to the AI, so I can actually get more useful work done without getting exhausted. Just like 10 hours mining…
If I have a team of 20, making a lot of money, but I think I can do the exact same job with 15 because of AI productivity gains, should I keep the other 5 employed for the vibes? The total net income doesn't matter: The…
For most Microsoft employees, the maximum unemployment benefits in most states are a rounding error vs the buyout offer. Here in Missouri it's $320, maxed to 20 weeks. So for most local employees that might get this…
Interesting perspective. As someone who didn't even grow up in the US, I saw Sim City as a builder of relatively low density, hard zoning cities that had little to do with the high density I grew up in. The idea of…
The world has more than one country, and most have basically no access to oil. They will go deep into solar first. See, for instance, how the mix between the Venezuelan takeover early in the year, plus the Hormuz…
If the rocket company was in the stock market as its own thing, not as an extremely complicated bundle, it would not be priced anywhere as high as it is now. I would expect that company to be healthy for quite a while…
Any corrupt organization anywhere will do its very best to protect itself from reputational loss whenever possible. It just happens that in some societies, the amount of protection those organizations can provide to…
If the value of higher education is purely book learning, sure. But if the value is signaling and the creation of ingroups that will become future elites, they can be valuable even if you do not learn a thing in class.…
Remember when we were told only an expert should install Linux, and everyone else should just ask an enthusiast for help? Well, now we all have an expert at hand. Might not be a world expert, up to date in the very…
You are talking about someone that spoke with a rather manipulated voice almost 24/7 for years. Of course she can act all day, every day. It's a big part of what her job was.
SBT cleared a lot of footguns in the last decade or so, but at the time where Scala adoption was popular, it still had a lot of weird syntax, including the strange, meaningful whitespace, and enough DSL syntax to scare…
Getting it all to work nicely with easy syntax without breaking backwards compatibility at all is not easy. It's the same reason Option types don't take off in Java, as the effort to make them work in an environment…
80% of Java features in the last few years are Scala features with worse syntax, because the better syntax would not be backwards compatible. It's not good for Scala 3 adoption in industry , but I would argue Martin has…
Don't forget that the Imperium runs on hypocrisy. Large percentages of the Adeptus Mechanicus is breaking their own rules, including working with abominable intelligences. In fact, what they are dealing with in their…
The treatment you don't need might be zero risk, but it might also have quite a bit of it. And some tests carry risks too: See how different countries have very different protocols. The US system, which is colonoscopy…
WeWork collapsed because of their S-1 was on fire. If they had gone public earlier, it would have still been on fire. The reason they lasted that long is because Masayoshi Son didn't do anything that resembled due…
For reference, in my Spanish home town, a large consulting firm is hiring devs right out of college for a little under 20K euros a year. The apartment I grew up in, in said home town, would sell for about 400K euros,…
The world has a lot of tech journalists, but I have yet to see the longform article, with actual interviews, trying to dig into what is happening in this kind of manic push for features that seem to have no traction…
Many arbitrary features can be turned off: I haven't turned on Siri on a phone for many years, because the utility was minimal vs the annoyance of errors in voice activation. Taking very significant space in your drive…
It's much better than 5, but I've had a couple of situations this week where it was too interested in being independent, making calls that went directly against my recommendations. It can also do fun things like…
It's not always what the nerds want to do though: I know of what the insides used to look like in one of those on the list, and things were very custom, because some early technical decisions were outright landmines…
I have seen it, over and over again, in relatively small orgs (under 500 devs) where the wrong kind of people are handed the job of platform lead. Project after project people don't want to use. The platform jobs in…
> You cannot be responsible for what you can’t control either. That understanding is key to reasoning about system behavior and fixing it when the AI inevitably fails. This is not a good premise. All over law, you will…
We already have as much parallelization as companies can afford: Hundreds, if not thousands of new corn varieties, coming from one lab. The budget is the limit. Testing is just expensive. Process improvements come from…
It's often not necessarily about visibility, but real iteration time. For instance, let's say we are doing biology on plants, which is still much easier than doing human trials. No matter how motivated claude might get,…
What can make sense, and what has been my personal experience, is that I have shifted my most draining work to the AI, so I can actually get more useful work done without getting exhausted. Just like 10 hours mining…
If I have a team of 20, making a lot of money, but I think I can do the exact same job with 15 because of AI productivity gains, should I keep the other 5 employed for the vibes? The total net income doesn't matter: The…
For most Microsoft employees, the maximum unemployment benefits in most states are a rounding error vs the buyout offer. Here in Missouri it's $320, maxed to 20 weeks. So for most local employees that might get this…
Interesting perspective. As someone who didn't even grow up in the US, I saw Sim City as a builder of relatively low density, hard zoning cities that had little to do with the high density I grew up in. The idea of…
The world has more than one country, and most have basically no access to oil. They will go deep into solar first. See, for instance, how the mix between the Venezuelan takeover early in the year, plus the Hormuz…
If the rocket company was in the stock market as its own thing, not as an extremely complicated bundle, it would not be priced anywhere as high as it is now. I would expect that company to be healthy for quite a while…
Any corrupt organization anywhere will do its very best to protect itself from reputational loss whenever possible. It just happens that in some societies, the amount of protection those organizations can provide to…
If the value of higher education is purely book learning, sure. But if the value is signaling and the creation of ingroups that will become future elites, they can be valuable even if you do not learn a thing in class.…
Remember when we were told only an expert should install Linux, and everyone else should just ask an enthusiast for help? Well, now we all have an expert at hand. Might not be a world expert, up to date in the very…
You are talking about someone that spoke with a rather manipulated voice almost 24/7 for years. Of course she can act all day, every day. It's a big part of what her job was.
SBT cleared a lot of footguns in the last decade or so, but at the time where Scala adoption was popular, it still had a lot of weird syntax, including the strange, meaningful whitespace, and enough DSL syntax to scare…
Getting it all to work nicely with easy syntax without breaking backwards compatibility at all is not easy. It's the same reason Option types don't take off in Java, as the effort to make them work in an environment…
80% of Java features in the last few years are Scala features with worse syntax, because the better syntax would not be backwards compatible. It's not good for Scala 3 adoption in industry , but I would argue Martin has…
Don't forget that the Imperium runs on hypocrisy. Large percentages of the Adeptus Mechanicus is breaking their own rules, including working with abominable intelligences. In fact, what they are dealing with in their…
The treatment you don't need might be zero risk, but it might also have quite a bit of it. And some tests carry risks too: See how different countries have very different protocols. The US system, which is colonoscopy…
WeWork collapsed because of their S-1 was on fire. If they had gone public earlier, it would have still been on fire. The reason they lasted that long is because Masayoshi Son didn't do anything that resembled due…
For reference, in my Spanish home town, a large consulting firm is hiring devs right out of college for a little under 20K euros a year. The apartment I grew up in, in said home town, would sell for about 400K euros,…
The world has a lot of tech journalists, but I have yet to see the longform article, with actual interviews, trying to dig into what is happening in this kind of manic push for features that seem to have no traction…
Many arbitrary features can be turned off: I haven't turned on Siri on a phone for many years, because the utility was minimal vs the annoyance of errors in voice activation. Taking very significant space in your drive…
It's much better than 5, but I've had a couple of situations this week where it was too interested in being independent, making calls that went directly against my recommendations. It can also do fun things like…
It's not always what the nerds want to do though: I know of what the insides used to look like in one of those on the list, and things were very custom, because some early technical decisions were outright landmines…
I have seen it, over and over again, in relatively small orgs (under 500 devs) where the wrong kind of people are handed the job of platform lead. Project after project people don't want to use. The platform jobs in…
> You cannot be responsible for what you can’t control either. That understanding is key to reasoning about system behavior and fixing it when the AI inevitably fails. This is not a good premise. All over law, you will…