To be fair, even reading 'good' books won't make you smart. I think the key is to be critical, which should be thought at a young age. Ikram Antaki dedicated most of her last years in teaching this in Mexico. Anecdote:…
The idea of offshoring computing is good. However, the cloud developed as a centralized computing platform instead of a distributed one. This has created power dynamics that harm customers. The same happened with social…
I don't really think it is turning into a guesswork. A lot of people wrote bad code before by pasting things from the internet they didn't understand. I think some people are using LLMs the same way, but it does not…
I do agree with his identification of the problem: sometimes agents fail because of the tools around it and not because of the model's reasoning. However, for the failing tests I think he is not making the distinction…
Yeah, there is also the work of primatologists which challenges some of our beliefs of what we think is human sciences (like politics). See Frans De Waal. Yet, I believe there hasn't been much progress as compared with…
There are some research projects out there that use LLMs for health diagnostics. Here's one: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/med-pmlr23.pdf They usually require more data It is not a great idea to diagnose…
I agree. Most of the time people think STEM is harder but it is not. Yes, it is harder to understand some concepts, but in social sciences we don't even know what the correct concepts are. There hasn't been so much…
I believe iMessage is only used in the USA. In Latin America almost everyone uses WhatsApp.
Transportation influences urban development. That is why most houses have a garage. There is no such thing as private transport (streets are public). Transportation has been heavily centralized since the New Deal. The…
The problems of centralization. Some economic sectors are centralized by nature, IT is not.
I think LLMs are helpful for understanding code. I used to spend like an hour trying to find where something very specific was made, and now I can just ask an LLM and it finds it right a way and is able to explain how…
I agree with the point that learning requires work. In general, everything worth doing requires work. This is one of the things I often have to remind myself, otherwise I spend the whole day 'learning' and I just read a…
The robotics thing to replace caregivers misses the point that elder people also want connection. Yeah, it might free caregivers but still we will have a loneliness epidemic. I think this is more related to the desire…
As someone else mentioned here: not all technical debt is created equal. I agree, sometimes the problem are changing requirements, etc. But it is also true that there is technical debt caused by developers who don't…
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe is that at the end the author seems to imply that agentic AI will work simply because models have become better regardless of the way we make them agentic (i.e. MCPs, skills, etc).
I think this is purely first mover advantage. We get stuck with bad products simply because those were the first products on the market. It is difficult to change them once everyone uses them. The same applies to the…
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To be fair, even reading 'good' books won't make you smart. I think the key is to be critical, which should be thought at a young age. Ikram Antaki dedicated most of her last years in teaching this in Mexico. Anecdote:…
The idea of offshoring computing is good. However, the cloud developed as a centralized computing platform instead of a distributed one. This has created power dynamics that harm customers. The same happened with social…
I don't really think it is turning into a guesswork. A lot of people wrote bad code before by pasting things from the internet they didn't understand. I think some people are using LLMs the same way, but it does not…
I do agree with his identification of the problem: sometimes agents fail because of the tools around it and not because of the model's reasoning. However, for the failing tests I think he is not making the distinction…
Yeah, there is also the work of primatologists which challenges some of our beliefs of what we think is human sciences (like politics). See Frans De Waal. Yet, I believe there hasn't been much progress as compared with…
There are some research projects out there that use LLMs for health diagnostics. Here's one: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/med-pmlr23.pdf They usually require more data It is not a great idea to diagnose…
I agree. Most of the time people think STEM is harder but it is not. Yes, it is harder to understand some concepts, but in social sciences we don't even know what the correct concepts are. There hasn't been so much…
I believe iMessage is only used in the USA. In Latin America almost everyone uses WhatsApp.
Transportation influences urban development. That is why most houses have a garage. There is no such thing as private transport (streets are public). Transportation has been heavily centralized since the New Deal. The…
The problems of centralization. Some economic sectors are centralized by nature, IT is not.
I think LLMs are helpful for understanding code. I used to spend like an hour trying to find where something very specific was made, and now I can just ask an LLM and it finds it right a way and is able to explain how…
I agree with the point that learning requires work. In general, everything worth doing requires work. This is one of the things I often have to remind myself, otherwise I spend the whole day 'learning' and I just read a…
The robotics thing to replace caregivers misses the point that elder people also want connection. Yeah, it might free caregivers but still we will have a loneliness epidemic. I think this is more related to the desire…
As someone else mentioned here: not all technical debt is created equal. I agree, sometimes the problem are changing requirements, etc. But it is also true that there is technical debt caused by developers who don't…
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe is that at the end the author seems to imply that agentic AI will work simply because models have become better regardless of the way we make them agentic (i.e. MCPs, skills, etc).
I think this is purely first mover advantage. We get stuck with bad products simply because those were the first products on the market. It is difficult to change them once everyone uses them. The same applies to the…
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