Pretty much anyone that I’ve talked to that somewhat works in AI industry, the attitude is “let it rip right now, and deal with the consequences as it’s going to happen one way or another”. I’m not sure where I stand on this issue, but the reality is, it’s inevitable whether we want it or not.
I generally understand this sentiment as a couple of my best friends work in theatre industry, although I have no inclination towards anything related to arts. That being said, you don’t need mass market to get second order effects. Especially for tourism industry.
Not everyone who visits NYC goes to a Broadway show, but they know of the industry and how it attracts the talent. Not everyone who goes to Berlin dances their night out till 6am, but they know of it. These subsidies help to create the image of the city, and in some sense help the residents to identify with their surroundings. I understand it’s a bit lame, but I don’t mind some of my tax dollars going into an industry that I never directly benefit from.
Yup, I think all three are posting about 500M/quarter profits on average for the past year or so. Might be wrong though, I don’t really keep up with all of them.
For every Theranos and WeWork, there’s Uber, Coinbase, AirBnb. I know they didn’t raise as much as OpenAI, but it wasn’t insignificant amount of money burning before they became profitable with large market caps. It’s very strange times we’re living in.
The question is, what'll come first - AI agents that will replace white collar jobs, so you don't even need the employees or companies not trusting WFH employees, thus bringing everyone back to in person?
Yeah, it’s the same in Vancouver. That being said, they removed yearly increase cap in Toronto in all the new builds since 2018, and it’s still about the same price as here. Or in Calgary where they don’t have it at all, and from what I’ve looked up, rent has increased 14% YoY.
I’d be okay if they removed the caps in my city as well, if we didn’t have enormous amount of red tape and barriers to entry to construction. Otherwise the supply goes up slower than the population increase, so percentage of apartments for rent keeps decreasing.
I'm curious, have you tried to use it on a week-long project? It's really not just copy pasting through GH, once you figure out the workflow. I consider myself an okayishly experienced dev (10+ years, if it even matters), and for things I've never touched (in my case, mobile/front end development), it's incredible how it sped me up.
It, undeniably, makes prototyping incredibly fast. I’ve been forcing myself to use Cursor for the past month, and could create a fairly functional web app, given my skills aren’t front end dev. Very sweet for one off deterministic python scripts, figuring out the UI bugs, filling up boilerplate code and especially handy with languages/frameworks you’re not that familiar with.
Sure, we’re not at the “hook it up to prod codebase and ask it to make features from scratch” phase, but we didn’t have this 2 years ago either. But writing it off as completely useless? Nah.
I’m more of a process oriented person, who more or less cares about code quality. And as of now, it kinda sucks for it. However if your main goal is just the result, it’s delivering good stuff.
Not sure about most of the people, but for me it's the high. I kinda get the same high from long walks (20km+) though, and since I don't really enjoy running, that's my gateway to achieve the same result. On an average day when I have 4-5 hours to kill, the last 30% of the walk feels beyond amazing.
I’m a bit surprised with the reaction in the comments section. My genuine belief, and beliefs of what I assume the bubbles I’m part of, LLMs are not detectable by any means. And I assumed the problem is, the less technical people have not been made aware enough in real life, so they’re still not skeptical.
It was a bit hard for me to come into terms with, in the last 7-8 years, too. I remember my 2000s, where talking to anyone online or playing with them would guarantee that there’s a real person behind it. Or at least the chances were incredibly high. Now? I assume the chances are incredibly low. Or at least extreme financial incentives for online interactions. Which ruined the internet somewhat for me. Which, I think, will get worse. Eh, good old days.
Yeah, anyone who has ran a website, or even better, worked at a high-traffic user generated content company has experienced the lurker/creator ratio. Even if you discount 90% of it as bots, it's still insanely high. 8 billion people is a hell lotta pair of eyes.
Comment sections of social media get a substantial amount of reads without much interaction. We might not be the target audience, but looking around, quite a lot of people consume the text-media without putting too much thought into it.
Counterpoint - confirmation bias. If you make the LLMs respond with specific tones, mix in some casual grammar mistakes, I don’t think you can distinguish it.
Yeah, I never got the perspective of the people who said otherwise. It's wild how throughout my life I've met people who put 50% of the entire population into "can't be friends with them" group. Maybe I'm just lucky, but all of my male friends have women friends and vice-versa. Grew up in different countries as well, so it's really cross-cultural if one puts a bit of effort.
It's not English-speaking community specific. In every language I can speak, I can think of an equivalent of MrBeast for that area. Maybe a majority portion of the entire world's population actually enjoys that kind of content. Nobody in my friend group enjoys that, but looking at my nephews, they're all going crazy about it. There are going to be people who grew up with him for almost a decade, and that's a crazy amount of time to build parasocial relationship with your favourite celebrity.
But it works? We only have functional public transit in small amount of cities in NA as well. If we can scale it up, it might be a game changer. I’m as pro-transit as it gets, but unfortunately we don’t have political appetite for it.
That’s 15 years. Why not for another 15 years? I mean eventually things might crash, but as the saying goes, “economists have predicted 9 out of last 5 recessions”.
Eh, half of my family is in the US, and I honestly think it’s not much worse here other than buying a house. That being said, it really sucks for new grads and younger people.
Honestly, it’s just not a common knowledge. I still can shock people by telling there are practically free versions of Clearview-like services online. Like finding people in random pictures by doing a reverse image search.
Yeah, but then Claude 3.5 Sonnet came out, so they took the lead.
Tangentially speaking, having no skin in this game, it's extremely fun to watch the model-wars. I kinda wish I started dabbling in that area, rather than being mostly an infrastructure/backend fella. Feels like I would be already way behind though.
Facebook has insane pull. Sometimes I forget about it, but it is used by majority of every single demographic base once you consider different portions of the FB app (markets, groups, messenger), Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads (don’t think it is that relevant yet). That being said, to my understanding, Meta has been trying to move itself away from political-adjacent conversations. While Twitter is completely the opposite, and thrives on poli-rage.
Financially incentivized accounts (dare I say, creators) accelerated rage bait and view farming. It always existed before, but it’s genuinely baffling how worse every algo-feed has gotten in the last 6 years. Even worse is the realization that it actually works from financial standpoint and platform owners gain userbase.
Well, also cities are fun for younger people. Anyone that I know who lives in a city can move out if they want to, but quality of life would drop dramatically.
I agree in some sense, but spirit of the law also creates very uneven playground and leaves a lot of questions. The way I see the problem, it takes way too long for us to legislate anything. By the time something passes different levels of approval, whoever has any skin in the game might figure out a way around it.
That happens a lot with finding loopholes in housing related legislations. If there is a proposal that would hurt investors, they lobby against it for a while, buying time to figure out an alternative method, and by the time it passes, they don’t really care because they’ve circumvented it anyways.
I see why it would also suck if we fast tracked most of the legislations though.
Hm, if you mean software design patterns, then not exactly. It's probably harder to detect in just coding world, but the easiest one I can think of in our realm "checking current CPU usage of X service". In my current company, there are quite a few ways - logging into AWS -> switching to production environment -> going to ECS -> Looking up the service -> Clicking on metrics, or opening DataDog -> Dashboards -> Service Name.
I understand it's very reductive and simplified, but for every task there are alternative ways to reach the goal, and from my historical experience, everyone does everything differently. Some things can be optimized significantly, if others just knew about the possibilities.
I had this realization that, sometimes, people on my team are doing the same tasks in different ways, resulting each of them taking different amount of time. In certain scenarios, there is an optimal way of doing things, and I don't even know about it. Trying to test out if current AI-models are solid enough to do comparisons from a screen recording, or just general suggestions for improving white-collar workflows. I could see an eventual platform that could be built out of it.
Most of the code my friends and I write, isn't original. And it's not just people who make $50K/year. Obviously LLM-assisted code writing is still in its infancy, but it has made a lot of mundane things a breeze already. It sucks that one has to know its shortcomings to make it actually useful for yourself (e.g. I won't ask it to write a context-aware function right away, but I know it's great at generating stubs). But we'll get there, I think.
I’m actually excited to see these projects come into fruition. If USA can pull it off, and become competitive in global markets, it’ll a proof that we can still build big projects when we want to. If things go sideways with nothing coming online by the end of 2020s, it won’t look good especially knowing how China just keeps outbuilding us.
I completely agree. It’s a fairly bad take whenever people say “you can do both”, because it really doesn’t work that way. Like theoretically you could, but chances are, one will negatively affect the other part.
My sister, in her late 30s with 3 children, always emphasized how she wouldn’t be successful if she didn’t have unlimited support from her partner in terms of income and career. But that’s very rare for an average family.