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Nice, wealthy scions cashing in on political connections and implementing the surveillance state.

> Harnesses orchestrate individuals

I feel this is probably coming and perhaps inevitable, but I fear for the poor employees this sort of thing will be tried out on first.

I actually have complex feelings about it as well.

The way I see it is that history is going to advance whether you like it or not and you might as well ride the wave.

I understand I'm lucky to be insulated from the crisis a bit, though. I do think once SWEs lose their jobs every other office worker is going to follow, so we're in the same boat.

I've been emotionally and financially preparing for this since I read about the singularity in 2007.

I do still love technology and I'm a builder. I'm also neither a tech optimist or pessimist, but an inevitabilist. It's coming.

It's a prototype project. Stop projecting on the internet.

I am basically a tech lead to the AI's junior dev swarm. It can do a lot of things, but still needs signoff and occasional hand holding.

If you looked at that arrangement and said "we don't need tech leads, we just need nontechnical managers and junior devs" you'd be sorely mistaken.

I do anticipate a future where it will be better than me at applying taste, knowing best practices, and having domain familiarity.

Can't help you with your teammates, but see go/presubmit-latency-skill :)

Argon is doing my job for me while I'm writing this comment.

A guy at lunch today asked me when a feature was going to be built on the tool I'm working on. Turns out it had built it last night at 8:30 when I was hanging out with my girlfriend. Welcome to the future!

Jev can fix it

Maybe you could argue that we'd be better off with big tech, but foreign state actors have absolutely destroyed political discourse in the US. It's the reason why we all distrust each other and are sliding into autocracy.

Don't listen to them, they're not your friends. And if you listen to enough motivated reasoning, you'll lose track of what's true and what's not.

This site is just foreign state actor propaganda now. Regardless of how you feel about US tech monopolies, they're doing their best to undermine them.

I searched for a song lyric and it couldn't find it. The AI response told me to search for it on genius.com.

Hilarious. I should have taken a screenshot of it.

It's not even that. Imagine you were an investor: you'd invest in stupid things knowing that "investors aren't really smart." Other savvy investors would understand you're investing in slop, too, and follow suit.

You have a system in which investors are usually smart, but betting on collective stupidity.

Same with, say, the Chinese real estate market, where they were building apartments that no one could live in. Everyone is intelligent enough to know they were useless buildings, but you can still make money speculating on the bubble.

> Digital autonomy

> Strengthening the digital autonomy of the Netherlands.

Apparently the US becoming an authoritarian state means people don't want to do business with us. We're giving away our best advantage, our reputation for freedom and openness, for absolutely nothing in return.

Actually it may be the opposite. Alcohol is needed for people within settlements to bond.

Actually I would argue that the evolutionary pressures run against it: if one generation dominates then the species can't evolve.

Meta is back with another thing no one asked for

So possible in less regulated countries but not in the US. Here I think it would be far too much of a legal liability.

When cleaning out your possessions you have to keep in mind everything has an implicit storage cost.

E.g. if you have a bunch of junk, how much would you pay for an extra closet to hide it from view?

At what point does the storage costs outweigh the value of the items?

I feel like this post is just an AI slop copy of that site designed to grab free ad revenue.

I've flagged it and recommend others do the same.

I hate to say it, but if AI keeps advancing at the current rate, the justification for keeping humans in the loop will grow increasingly hard to make.

There's definitely the possibility that in just a few years, human mathematicians will largely become irrelevant in the face of extremely capable models.

I don't like it, I think there are a lot of bad side effects to it, but I think it's important to face that possibility.

Have an AI agent compile the cheat sheets into a searchable website hosted on Github for your own personal reference.

You can't compare a heavyweight, expensive and slow model to Flash. Comparing apples to oranges.

I feel like a 10 year old all over again with my frequency of questions.

How did the early Roman Empire interact with Greek city states?

How are LLMs planning on learning new information on the fly without new context or retraining runs?

Why did mom leave?

You know, standard stuff.

I think 3.7 Flash is very good at coding. I have access to both that and Opus 5. Opus is only slightly better IMO and it's much more frustrating to read.

I work for Google and we have the choice between Gemini models and Opus. Opus is slightly better than Gemini flash but I find the style unbearable.

It reminds me of a pedantic grad student.

I love Gemini in Google Maps for long drives. I start getting bored of music and podcasts and start grilling it with random questions I've always wondered about.

I don't think it's effective though because you're not actually addressing the reality on the ground. To pursuade someone you need to start with their assumptions.

If your argument doesn't even seem aware of them, then they won't listen.

I guess you could say "who cares, X is evil anyway, might as well try" but it just seems ineffective and frankly a little naive.

It's almost certainly Gemini but I don't know if it's Flash or Pro.

I would assume though advanced reasoning models would be best, especially since it's out of band. If I were building it maybe I'd run two adversarial models.

I have no idea how it works internally. Your assumptions about its workings are as good as mine.

It leaves comments though like a human reviewer would. I assume the key is a good prompt making sure the comments aren't too frivolous.