jonfw

> If all companies are using the same "frontier" LLMs, and if they are competitive

The answer is that all companies will not be using the same frontier LLMs competitively

This will be yet another technology that will benefit from economies of scale. Big businesses and those in PE portfolios will lead the charge, adopt AI, increase efficiency, and gain market share at the expense of mom and pop shops.

This will be good for our 401ks because we're all primarily invested in big business

Investors can be very generous if they see opportunities for market capture of the next big thing

TL;DR: AI generated blogpost on using personal AI productivity tools to develop personal AI productivity tools

Mobile support?

It is not obvious to me that determinism is a requirement for an abstraction

wheels are so much simpler that it seems much easier and more cost efficient to solve the "transporting a wheeled robot up the stairs problem" than it does to go fully bipedal.

Just like math is learned by solving equations, software engineering is learned by writing code

Due to technological advances, solving equations stopped being a marketable skill, but understanding mathematics is as important as ever.

Software engineering will follow a similar route as math- the marketable skill will no longer be to write code, but writing code will be necessary to understand the big picture and build the marketable skills.

You are not stuck between public API pricing for frontier models via Claude and self hosted.

Remember that there are other LLM providers, open models, and previous gen models, that are way cheaper that frontier Claude and still way better than what can realistically run locally

One token of GPT seems to go farther than an opus token in my experience, those books are a little cooked

If you're interested in keyboard navigation of websites, consider a browser or extension with link hinting support! It worked really well in my experience a few years ago, although I've since became much more of a mouse guy and stopped using it.

Qutebrowser was my favorite browser for keyboard navigation but firefox, chrome, etc. have extensions for this as well.

We are discussing a gas tax, and there is a strong correlation between gas consumption and weight, which implies more taxes for trucks and SUVs

I think that this has the benefit of both raising a non trivial amount of money as well as reducing housing demand from the wealthy in a supply constrained market

I used to work with a guy who would always say "if you're looking for trouble, you are going to find it"

When I hear that "we found X bugs using some new tool", where the standard for bugs is low and doesn't neccessarily require user impact in realistic scenarios, I think to myself- duh! You went looking for bugs, of course you found them.

For a sufficiently complicated product, in my experience, you don't have to look far.