Yeah unemployment famously doesn’t include those who’ve given up… I fear there are many more than we’re willing to admit
Taken seriously how? People talk about this constantly, and the overall tenor of the tech blogosphere has basically accepted that LLMs are here to stay, and that this spells doom for tech workers, but what’s a guy to…
No, in many of the games it’s not like she’s a damsel in distress, and usually helps like to defeat ganon
I struggle to understand this. I use AI quite regularly and find it frees up hours of my day to do consequential “understanding” work that previously got eaten up by there literally not being enough hours in a day to…
Call me a boomer but I’ve had a ton of fun with XM radio. I can find new music on Bandcamp but nothing compares to hearing some classic from the 80’s that you would have never thought to put on when you’re driving home…
For all of this fear and loathing, I am just a regular guy with a regular tech job and there are dozens of people like me at work. They’re all there because they do good work.
For real. It’s such a weak cop-out of an argument to lead with that I clicked out, never to read this blog again.
We really don’t celebrate enough how much AI has saved us from terrible SO interactions. Not being entirely serious here, because the site had its good parts, but arguing in threads or having your questions randomly…
I think the next frontier for (knowledge) Workists is to use the AI to make sci-fi shit. Someone go make me a schematic for a 3d-printed battery. Someone go make me a an electric (flying?) skateboard kit. Someone go…
I have a friend who owns an organic farm (with a couple partners). They mostly scrape by and work long hours and there’s a lot of stress. People really really under-appreciate how nice the remote tech daily routine is:…
Salary jobs let you pick your price. How much more as a % of your yearly would it cost you to commute every day, amortized over your ~2000 hours of expected work at said office? 10%? 20%? For me, it’s probably 10% for…
Well it all depends on whether you’ve ever thought Apple was any good at search, Siri, etc. My own personal opinion is that they’re great at design, UX, hardware, and even some power user desktop software (lifetime…
That honestly sounds a lot healthier than “just ship what the CTO/Product team wants” with as much hand waving as is necessary to very roughly estimate ROI and then pray it hits with the market. In anything that’s not a…
DJing is an interesting art. It’s not creative per se, but can be done creatively. Modern DJ software+hardware in particular allows for a ton of on-the-fly remixing, clever use of fx and stems, and even some custom…
In retrospect this is very similar to the Apple strategy: don’t invest heavily in doing something that isn’t already a core competency, position for novel uses of the tech but don’t build it per se. Apple probably would…
Love how these bros always cop to “China bad” when they run out of good arguments.
Crossing out things you disagree with is the most insane part of this. You should highlight or comment those if you’re going to mark the book up at all.
My phone must have autocorrected. Ty and good joke :)
Normative determinism is the term for that
Agreed, starlink is obviously advantageous from the global (and extra-global) perspective. Running cables is expensive. But so is launching satellites, and it’s hard to see how you reach a tipping point where satellites…
I agree that “inherently political” is usually a thought terminating cliche. What kinds of technologies are conditionally political? The internet is a bad counterexample as it originated from a department of defense…
Autonomous vehicle, yes
Amazon’s AWS and core delivery business are fairly mature, and with consumer sentiment poor and non-AI tech contracting, having a growth vertical like Bedrock is good for shareholders. Without their own core tech,…
Expecting “transparency” out of a government trying to protect national interests seems like a tall order. They have to withhold or obfuscate things to do that job.
I do this several times per week. You can ask Claude to hunt down duplication, brittle scripty code, overly defensive fallbacks, and footguns.
Yeah unemployment famously doesn’t include those who’ve given up… I fear there are many more than we’re willing to admit
Taken seriously how? People talk about this constantly, and the overall tenor of the tech blogosphere has basically accepted that LLMs are here to stay, and that this spells doom for tech workers, but what’s a guy to…
No, in many of the games it’s not like she’s a damsel in distress, and usually helps like to defeat ganon
I struggle to understand this. I use AI quite regularly and find it frees up hours of my day to do consequential “understanding” work that previously got eaten up by there literally not being enough hours in a day to…
Call me a boomer but I’ve had a ton of fun with XM radio. I can find new music on Bandcamp but nothing compares to hearing some classic from the 80’s that you would have never thought to put on when you’re driving home…
For all of this fear and loathing, I am just a regular guy with a regular tech job and there are dozens of people like me at work. They’re all there because they do good work.
For real. It’s such a weak cop-out of an argument to lead with that I clicked out, never to read this blog again.
We really don’t celebrate enough how much AI has saved us from terrible SO interactions. Not being entirely serious here, because the site had its good parts, but arguing in threads or having your questions randomly…
I think the next frontier for (knowledge) Workists is to use the AI to make sci-fi shit. Someone go make me a schematic for a 3d-printed battery. Someone go make me a an electric (flying?) skateboard kit. Someone go…
I have a friend who owns an organic farm (with a couple partners). They mostly scrape by and work long hours and there’s a lot of stress. People really really under-appreciate how nice the remote tech daily routine is:…
Salary jobs let you pick your price. How much more as a % of your yearly would it cost you to commute every day, amortized over your ~2000 hours of expected work at said office? 10%? 20%? For me, it’s probably 10% for…
Well it all depends on whether you’ve ever thought Apple was any good at search, Siri, etc. My own personal opinion is that they’re great at design, UX, hardware, and even some power user desktop software (lifetime…
That honestly sounds a lot healthier than “just ship what the CTO/Product team wants” with as much hand waving as is necessary to very roughly estimate ROI and then pray it hits with the market. In anything that’s not a…
DJing is an interesting art. It’s not creative per se, but can be done creatively. Modern DJ software+hardware in particular allows for a ton of on-the-fly remixing, clever use of fx and stems, and even some custom…
In retrospect this is very similar to the Apple strategy: don’t invest heavily in doing something that isn’t already a core competency, position for novel uses of the tech but don’t build it per se. Apple probably would…
Love how these bros always cop to “China bad” when they run out of good arguments.
Crossing out things you disagree with is the most insane part of this. You should highlight or comment those if you’re going to mark the book up at all.
My phone must have autocorrected. Ty and good joke :)
Normative determinism is the term for that
Agreed, starlink is obviously advantageous from the global (and extra-global) perspective. Running cables is expensive. But so is launching satellites, and it’s hard to see how you reach a tipping point where satellites…
I agree that “inherently political” is usually a thought terminating cliche. What kinds of technologies are conditionally political? The internet is a bad counterexample as it originated from a department of defense…
Autonomous vehicle, yes
Amazon’s AWS and core delivery business are fairly mature, and with consumer sentiment poor and non-AI tech contracting, having a growth vertical like Bedrock is good for shareholders. Without their own core tech,…
Expecting “transparency” out of a government trying to protect national interests seems like a tall order. They have to withhold or obfuscate things to do that job.
I do this several times per week. You can ask Claude to hunt down duplication, brittle scripty code, overly defensive fallbacks, and footguns.