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Once you define it as an engineer who ships 10x as much business impact (ships fewer bugs, builds the right features, etc), it’s less contested but also less glamorous and harder to measure. In fact you start to develop an inkling that such people may not even be the same coders you once idolized.

Perhaps our future overlord will thank you :)

Yes, fully agreed. Anything AI is discovering in your dataset could have been found by humans, and it could have been done by a more efficient program. But that would require humans to carefully study it and write the program. AI lets you skip the novel analysis of the data and writing custom programs by using a generalizable program that solves those steps for you by expending far more compute.

I see it as, AI could remove the most basic obstacle preventing us from applying compute to vast swathes of problems- and that’s the need to write a unique program for the problem at hand.

Turns out, of course, that they are less dangerous than in the past, money goes a long way, and the human body is pretty good at walking even without training.

Notice it’s never free climbing the nose in a day, which would require 5-7 years of dedicated training.

This always stymies me. If I were to make it big, I’d want to go on to do other very useful things. But so commonly that doesn’t happen. Is it because they lost the fire? Because they were really lucky exactly once? Or perhaps their talents were suited only to that one thing?

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This does require the AI hasn’t been trained on the test text previously..

That’s something of a self-correcting problem, don’t you think?

The explanation I've heard before is that when you need anything from a thoroughly corrupt government, as simple as a building permit or a visa for a foreign employee involved in a project, officials will simply not process your request without a bribe. They believe it is owed. End of story.

I don't like the explanation in the slightest. But I do see how it might shut down opportunity if you can't overpower the obstacles, and aren't willing to bribe.

The utility of US laws against bribing foreign officials is to break down the expectation by those officials of a bribe. But, from a game theory point of view, if China is willing to bribe, this becomes much less effective.

In different terms, maybe you leaving costs the company $X. But if product engineer Joe Bob left first, maybe you leaving suddenly only costs the company $Y, where $X > $Y. Are you really worth $X?