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Profound, your comment provoked this thought: we know that AI in organizations is disruptive, but we still don’t understand some of the shifting patterns of power, communications, agency, etc.
If AI is not well-suited for traditional models of stratified management then maybe we need different models of bureaucracy?
But also, there is the enablement of new fields of original and creative endeavor: I think we can already see this in some of the brilliant and useful apps being made, often by solo 'teams'.
I don't want to play down the harmful effects AI, but the flip side is that the opportunities for original ideas are many and varied.
Paul Graham wrote about taste being the moat https://paulgraham.com/taste.html
Maybe better to periodically prune: tweak some skills, shorten some, delete some.
My suggestion was for the BBC to expand their definition of 'public sector broadcasting' to include facilitating the means of video distribution for communities ... kinda like Youtube in fact. The idea didn't resonate and was not mentioned in the report.
Around that time I also attended a meeting with some BBC bods, we were trying to promote Guerilla TV, a truly innovative and grass roots network that placed media servers and access points at strategic network nodes like universities (broadband was very sparse in those days). Nothing happened, opportunity missed.
To be fair, the BBC did accomplish some good stuff in those times too, notably Ashley Highfield and his team working on iPlayer, etc. But I've always thought the BBC made a strategic blunder by not doing more to enable grass roots content.
I haven't added my iPad to the Tailnet yet but i reckon that it could become a very comfortable and productive device for me.
You know this: you read something and it's like 'here's a mass of poorly structured text, it's not clear what the points are, it reads ugly, I have to read to the end to discover that there are no points! Or if there are points i now have to reread it. What a lot of effort.'
LLMs have annoying grammatical tics and can have other problems too, like the author says, but sometimes they can help to take bad writing and make it clear and more digestible.
My agent (Hermes) responds to a made-up command "vaultize this doc/link/text, etc" to add new .md files in the right format in the right place. The agent does a pretty good job of maintaining the index.md file, cross-links, etc.
A Quartz website builder creates a static site on my server, each MD file is a web page, and rebuilds when a new file is added [2]. This setup gives me a useful knowledge base with a great UX - across all the devices on my Tailnet, no need to run Obsidian Sync, or Syncthing.
This system is simple and works well, but i think it could maybe benefit from a memory system like Honcho to make it more effective as it scales.
[1] https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/how-th...
As a (former) Windsurf user I'm pretty happy with the progress of the Cognition/Devin ecosystem after they took over Windsurf, now known as Devin Desktop.
TIA
Test Match Special was broadcast on the BBC's long wave frequency and for many people in Britain it was a quintessential summer listening experience: all day for up to 5 days per test match.
Such long time stretches of continuous broadcasting meant that the commentators were adept at talking, stories, banter and general chatter, occasional bollocks.
For me the Test Match Special broadcasts became like a pleasant ambient background noise to long summer days, with occasional excitement and humor - like the time Brian Johnston and Jonathan Agnew fell into uncontrollable laughter at a double entendre, a priceless piece of cricket history: https://youtu.be/KsVTpX7LdZQ