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I have found that we don't seek to understand people enough. Good for you for doing it. People are complex and we often get a dumbed down version that's a straw man. This is true across many areas and isn't a right/left thing.
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Oh, don't misunderstand. I'm not proposing apathy. I think about losing my marketable edge often. It's one thing that keeps me working to improve my skills. Expecting the world to be static is just foolish. 20 years ago I was thinking about avoiding being made unnecessary. I have long worked to make myself indispensable. Not just with hard skills but with interpersonal skills.
Focusing on an externality like AI is not helpful as a fear. It is if you want to learn how to use it as a tool.
You catch what I'm saying. We survive and thrive by adapting.
Yep. This goes for the fears about the dangers of AI. Belief is often just as powerful as material. If people believe what AI Chatbots are saying that scares me much more than an AI deciding to do something. We know humans come up with terrible things.
I'm not sure this is a bad thing on its own. Just as I question the idea of the optimal number of anything. I wanna know why x should be above y. Its not a given.
Exactly. I mean, I remember the first time I realized that the idea of a "job" is a relatively new thing. Its probably gonna evolve over time. I'm not shilling for the "gig economy" but rather the reality that things change and that's not really a choice. Its a reality and those that want to survive will evolve. The false idea that the state can stop it or even control it still hasn't died. What usually happens is that smart politicians see a trend and try to ride it and take some credit for it. You can see this with AI and Bitcoin in relation to Trump and his crew.
Yeah, I'm not an old timer but I've been around long enough to have bags of salt that I keep around for when these scammers start shilling their latest amazing product.
Sometimes there's actual value but its almost never what they promise. Its just how the VC world's incentives work. Fiat money fuels it. VC could be better with hard money. More real. More sustainable. More prosperous.
Indeed.
My favorite relevant quote from Milton Friedman.
While traveling by car during one of his many overseas travels, Professor Milton Friedman spotted scores of road builders moving earth with shovels instead of modern machinery. When he asked why powerful equipment wasn't used instead of so many laborers, his host told him it was to keep employment high in the construction industry. If they used tractors or modern road building equipment, fewer people would have jobs was his host’s logic. "Then instead of shovels, why don’t you give them spoons and create even more jobs?" Friedman inquired.
Does technology affect the job market? Yeah, of course. Is it gonna eliminate all work? Nope. We find new stuff.
Fear is the mind killer.
Love to see it. In a better world we would have had this stuff in the 90s. Cheap clean energy and sound money will revolutionize the world for the better.
There's a lot of LN code that it was trained on? Maybe that explains it.
These tools will go with choices on things that may not be our preference unless we give it the expectations.
One dev I've watched use the tools says treat it like a junior dev that is very fast and doesn't ask questions often. Work upfront really pays off is what I've found. Still learning though. Its not magic as some fear or pitch.
Directions like this are interesting. I'm always wondering why the agent predicted this would be the answer or info I want to get. Or expect to get. It has to be related to the training phase but that doesn't really answer the question of why.
The solution to problems like this are pretty simple by giving the agent context. I've found the Anthropic approach with Claude code is much more effective for my workflows. Still learning how to best use the tools but things like this are something you have to figure out. It seems to me the best path is to make it less uncertain to the agent what you actually want to get. The less guessing the better.
A colleague of mine believe FP (functional programming) is a paradigm that will work better with coding assistants since the flows have less room for "creativity". And it can be easier to understand as a reader of the code.
A story as old as time.
I swear, its like these CEOs have never read a book on leadership or branding/marketing. Such a common mistake. Then again, I am almost always the guy in the room to poke holes in someone's plan (constructively).
I get why people are politicizing this, but its dumb and looks dumb to sane people.
That's pretty wild. Well, I will not shed a tear for Cracker Barrel. I like them but that's capitalism. You piss off your customers you pay for it. People open new restaurants everyday and they are all businesses seeking to fill a desire. If they can't, someone else will.
Personally I always prefer a locally owned small southern style comfort food place. What make CB great is that they are on the Interstates and you know what you are gonna get. I'd say the core values of their customers are tradition and comfort. The comfort of nostalgia.