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That’s a horrible advice.

Things that work for your kids don’t necessarily work for all kids.

I’m sure they learn it by other names.

The point is that while good to remember, and specifically Fred Brook’s “No Silver Bullet” article about it, there are second order effects.

If coding becomes 100x cheaper, what’s going to happen next? At least to some degree, design and planning was there since coding is expensive. (Not just coding, debugging also got squashed by AI and was an expensive part of the job)

This is why the original comment seems pretty spot on, organizations will learn how to skip more phases, and startups are probably a place where this will be happening faster. (Not clearly though, a lot of big tech are happy tokenmaxxing to try and not stay behind those startups when they come)

But there is an intellectual community, it’s just about those pesky prompts, loops and harnesses.

The assembly community is not thriving, and an arithmetic community is not a thing.

It’s a lacking metaphor, sure. But it points to how these processes have happened many times before.

The author disses these new concepts as “shallower”, but in reality they reality they’re just newer.

What they consider deep discussion of compilers (as if that’s a big part of software engineering and not a niche that interested 0.01% of them) is the result of decades of building the field.

Will AIs build a deeper field or act differently, I do not know. But it feels like the author is mostly discussing the current state of the world, and to me that states feels as if it’s just a repeat of history.

Are they saying it right now?

I think CEOs could honestly say it a year ago, but by now the numbers of those who say so should be dwindling.

Recent surveys by BCG and others suggest things have changed.

Personally, I know many people in different fields who’ve seen crazy speed ups in many of their tasks.

- find piece to buy to repair an appliance

- travel research for places where I need an apartment with requirements one cannot just filter for

- gardening tips based on photos of my plants

- financial planning (similar tips to what I would get for more money, without paying per hour until I know much more)

- take photo of all physical spam and have me removed from the list

and many more…

If the access to this product went away I will survive, but it will be annoying and waste my time.

I’ve been purchasing more and more stuff from Walmart (good interaction with ChatGPT) and other stores.

It’s clear why Amazon is doing this from a business perspective, but this is a stop gap for them. They will need figure out a better plan for people using their agents.

I recently needed to buy some hardware for a piece of furniture.

Ran Codex, it found it for 18% less than what I found in the top Google results. It did it by finding smaller shops, applying a discount code, subscribing to a newsletter for a better code after approval, and took into account the shipping (by placing it in the cart and going to checkout) all to get me the best price.

I’m guessing without it I would have spent much more time on it and paid the original price I saw.

If you use AI agents well, they can easily save you more money than they cost, and saving money is something most people are pretty excited about.

(Disclosure: OpenAI employee)

The best trick I have after asking it nicely in all sort of ways is:

1. Have it build a scoring script that penalizes words outside a simple English list and approved jargon. Penalize sentences over 15 words as well. Add whatever else.

2. Run it in a loop to reduce the score while preserving intention

This works much better than other ways I’ve tried. Of course it costs more. And I would apply it only to the output to the user, not the thinking process (I think the AI thinks better with their crazy English)

Of course, sometimes nuance is lost by this process. That’s just the nature of making things simpler.

Aren’t Waymo prices above Uber’s? That’s what I’ve seen in SF.

That is to say that I don’t think the economics work. You’re better off offering free Ubers. And I doubt that will solve many issues.

This is not a very charitable explanation, it takes politicians at their word during a war. (One should not do that, and you can refer to Putin’s language at 2022 as a parallel example to Trump’s)

The initial US goals clearly were: 1. Regime change 2. Denial is of nuclear weapons

It’s also clear these goals were not achieved. So the US changed tactics and goals. (Same as Russia no longer plans on capturing Kiev it seems)

Most likely the US is stalling for time due to oil markets and has the same intentions as before, limited only by current capability.

Where I live (NYC) putting altered images like that has been the norm for more than a decade.

It’s just used to be more expensive to hire someone to do it for you.

The altered images always e free stirs the same bright walls and grey magazine style furniture.

AI is just making it cheaper, but this was bound to happen.

(Images altered this way do have a small watermark stating so)

The Linux kernel is not in any way at top of big projects. A kernel, as the name suggests, deals with specific issues and tries to remain small.

The world’s biggest software is usually built over endless adapters of different data and a need to reconcile endless edge cases with laws, regulations and real world complexities.

Now let’s see you do this with 40B. The f you can do that I will be intrigued, since it sounds like you solved a bunch of complicated economic problems.

The truth is that the backlash is stronger against E2EE.

Avoiding E2EE is less PR hassle to Meta than having it.

As a supporter, I must admit the E2EE interest groups have not had the upper hand recently (if ever)

They are blocked from insider trading

I think this in the previous comment undervalue just how many more complicated ways there are for corruption to bubble.

Assume super strict rules. Consider this example to circumvent them: Senator-elect A makes an LLC and invest their money (with some friends) in it (before taking office)

They can’t even talk to the money manager. But the manager can see their actions, and the senator can know their ow investments and work in their favor.