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That isn't a mistake AI would make though -- it's something a human would accidentally do when replacing em dashes with hyphens

But it was like this pre-AI, as well. I don't think I spent a significant amount of the work week coding since I was an L3 15 years ago. And even then it was clear that impact (and thus promos and raises) was inversely correlated to the amount of the week spent coding.

What I'm seeing on my teams is everyone being more overworked than ever because the coding part happens SO quickly now that there's no friction to slow down all the nonstop "team alignment and box drawing" work that someone else in this thread alluded to.

Yeah - that is the issue. Doing it that way is going to nuke your reliability rating and you will have to cut prices drastically to get rented.

What I do is… rent on the same platform when I actually need to use a card. A benefit is that if I need a burst of more power, that’s not an issue since it’s available from other hosts. But obviously there’s an inflection point of first party utilization where it makes more sense to own.

You do need fairly high end workstations to put them in, adequate cooling, power and very solid business internet as well. I've put more work into keeping them online than I had expected. But overall the economics are fantastic for it right now, the big question is how long it will continue.

I bought them direct from PNY the week the RTX Pro 6000 was released. Prices are almost double now what they were then.

Yes, they have been near 100% utilization on vast.ai at $1 to $1.25 depending on demand for the past two months. They're in two separate workstations, which I purchased for around $12k each before GPU and RAM prices went nuts this year.

Now, I have absolutely no clue how long this situation is going to last! But the economics don't really work out for local models while it does.

Ok, but I have two of those cards plugged into fiber internet, and they consistently rent out for $1500+/mo on vast.ai. So your example would be $3000, minus a couple hundred for business internet and electricity… that still buys a LOT of $200/mo frontier model subscriptions.

I'm not selling anything; I'm developing it live and there is a landing page, but there's no payment hooked up since like you said, it's not functional yet.

I really wish I had studied piano for that reason. I put many years into flute and almost went to conservatory for it, so I can play pretty much any melody by ear after hearing it, but I have zero ability to do the same for harmonies/chord progressions. I've tried to learn some piano (and like the parent said, was forced to as part of music curriculum at college) but it's incredibly difficult to learn a new instrument to a satisfying level as an adult.

Yeah, this is going to be interesting. First thing I did with the new Instinct bot was have it generate a property tax value appeal for me. Which will almost definitely go through; it's a slam dunk case but I'd been putting it off for an embarrassingly long time. Now it took me 10 minutes on a Sunday. This is obviously good, but I don't know how public agencies are going to deal with the influx of people trying to get the benefits they are owed, now that they can't rely on red tape and busy schedules to decrease the load.

I have a related question as someone who's been fully remote for about 12 years now, including all of my time in more senior/management roles: how does in person work even work for people who are in meetings all day every day?

My role (eng director) consists basically of 50-60 half hour meetings a week, back to back, with people all over the country/world. It wouldn't be tenable in an open office and it wouldn't even be tenable if I had to physically move across a campus in between meetings. Did people just work/manage across fewer projects and teams?

Great question. I’m using MOSS-audio for that which feels good (and is fast/small enough) but not sufficient to give useful feedback out of the box. I’m working on fine tuning it on a bunch of masterclasses on YouTube and recordings sourced/labeled by my friends. That’s really the blocker for me to feel this is ready for prime time. But the rest of the app already helping me structure my practice.