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- 90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 ...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
- AI is an Ideology, Not a Technology argues that artificial intelligence is better understood as an ideology rather than just a technology. It promotes a view of autonomous machine intelligence that could replace humans, but this is a mirage since AI relies heavily on human data and contributions. An alternative view is to focus on how people are central to developing AI systems through providing examples, problem-solving and understanding the technology.
- What can LLMs never do?
inability to perform certain tasks that seem simple for humans, like playing Wordle or predicting the output of cellular automata.
- A Front-End Engineer's Take on LLMs
the indeterminism and unreliable behavior of LLMs, which is unlike the deterministic nature of typical software development. The author thinks prompt engineering will go the way testing is going. - be a skill rather than a discipline
- Group chats rule the world
— Salons and groups have always existed but why the recent shift to private discourse?
Because the public internet makes it too easy for people to sell you stuff, extract value from you, or harass you. Private chats are human-scale environments where understandable social norms---not commerce, algorithms, or formal rules---drive the interactions. It's an authentic experience. # - The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI
As AI takes over the public internet (the trees) the people will retreat to safe underground spaces where they know only authentic humans live. #
- How I Use "AI"
- The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers
- AI is an impediment to learning web development
- AI won't replace human devs anytime soon (twitter.com/skeptrune)
- I’m Tired of Fixing Customers’ AI Generated Code
- Tog's paradox (also known as The Complexity Paradox or Tog’s Complexity Paradox) is an observation that products aiming to simplify a task for users tend to inspire new, more complex tasks.
Travel became simpler → more vacations now involve flying a plane and thus obtaining tickets online and thus comparison-shopping, aggregating reviews of faraway places, etc → omg, vacation travel is complex again. It just allows to fulfill more of a dream. — nine_k
Tog's paradox is the main reason why I suspect that generative AI will never destroy art, it will enhance it. It allows you to create artworks within minutes that until recently required hours to create and years to master. This will cause new art to emerge that pushes these new tools to the limit, again with years of study and mastery, and they will look like nothing we've been able to produce so far. — posix86
- The disposable web
- The Long Tail of AI - how non-AI companies are integrating artificial intelligence.
- The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding
- How AI-assisted coding will change software engineering: hard truths
- MODERN-DAY ORACLES or BULLSHIT MACHINES? - How to thrive in a ChatGPT world
- Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy (TL;DR)
- The Deep Research problem - OpenAI’s Deep Research is built for me, and I can’t use it.
LLMs are good at the things that computers are bad at, and bad at the things that computers are good at.
- The Law of Leaky Abstractions
So the abstractions save us time working, but they don’t save us time learning.
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