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This is good work. Made my day.

This was a very interesting read, thank you for sharing!

> Implementing AI solutions for companies?

Even before that, the vast majority of companies first need to have their automation and data processes in order. You cannot just get some LLM API keys and expect medium/long-running businesses to be able to fully leverage them. People want to hop on to the AI bandwagon, but are realizing that their software processes need to be good enough first. For me, this means a mixture of regular best-practices software dev, and adding some AI on top of that.

> And how do you get freelance clients?

Word of mouth, regular applications, cold calling. There's nothing new here.

> I’ve now applied for over 3 dozen jobs and I’ve heard back from 24 of them with a rejection

> I cannot continue to put myself through this process of rejection

Need to pump those numbers up, those are rookie numbers. Just kidding, but coming from India, that seems a really small number. We probably have a lot more competition, though, so maybe my views are skewed. I'm also surprised that they haven't even mentioned their network... someone with that amount of experience must be knowing people who can help out.

I applied for more jobs, have heard radio silence more than rejections (forget acceptances), and am still somehow in tech, whatever it means these days.

I keep seeing people pining for the old days. Those days are gone. And even if they came back, it's unlikely that life will be as good, because the entire world economy is in a different state than it was before. The only thing one can do is adapt.

I quit a full-time job a few years ago, took a long break which my accelerated savings helped me easily afford, and now I'm having a ball freelancing despite being a veritable cave-dweller, because everyone wants to AI, but doesn't have the setup to make the AI effective.

One needs to be flexible and stop reminiscing.

Should I then assume that Copilot is "compromised", and given that they've shoehorned it into all Microsoft products, then, by extension, that means all Microsoft products are compromised?

Not sure why your comment is dead/flagged. This seems like a very helpful website. Bookmarked.

> Careless People would not have been possible had SWW exited FB within a year

Sure, that book might not have been possible. But also the unique things she did for the company might not have been possible as well. To her credit, she does a good job of pointing out that she was complicit, but if she had listened to her own voice early, there is a small possibility that Facebook might not have been as powerful. Multiply that possibility across several other employees and imagine where the road could've led.

There's a difference between post-facto bravery (sometimes much less than that) and using your own legs to walk away much early and not enabling things you are uncomfortable with. This is what other people have been trying to point out.

I disagree. I have seen people with an actual spine and a conscience run away from all this nonsense before their first stock vested. My respect and my ear goes to them, not the people playing both sides.

You cannot take people, who first build the doombot and _then_ talk about it being dangerous for mankind, at face value. Especially when this playbook has been used multiple times within the past decade.

Besides, these "views" were already known to people who had their eyes and ears open. It's not something brand new. OpenAI has had multiple points in the past where its values have been tested and they've come out lacking. People who knew then, and only now talk about it, aren't people I can fully trust.

I remember something very similar when there was a sudden rush of articles and movies like "The Social Dilemma" criticizing Facebook and social networks, heavily featuring ex-employees, all of them happy to leave with big brands on their resumes and a hefty increase in net worth, all of a sudden having a "worried" expression about what their past employers were doing, as if they didn't know. Same with that book "Careless People".

I sense that these are people who have already eaten the cake and want to somehow absolve themselves of it.

India being unfucked slowly, decade by decade. A couple more, and unless multiple catastrophes happen, they won’t be moving in such numbers to Australia. Maybe more for tourism than anything else.

Outside of niche subjects, I doubt students in India of more than decent talent are considering Australia seriously for study. Talented people can make more in India in absolute terms, plus they won’t have to fight the entrenched wealth or high home prices.

We’ll get there, don’t worry.