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https://www.war.gov/News/Transcripts/Transcript/Article/4418...
We should all care how resources are used, even if don't own them. That investment is going to make things more expensive for everyone. See RAM, SSD, and GPU prices.
Absolutely no one is seriously clamoring for the old team name. It's an issue that DFM. But of course, because it's on the agenda of the day we need to drop everything.
This is no better then switch from master to mainline. They're both idiotic and performative.
This is 100% crony capitalism. Any suggestion to the contrary is naive at best and intentionally ambigious at worst.
I don't need an L4 to crack out some dirty code now, I'll let an agent do it so the L4 can level their skills up grinding harder problems.
The author repeatedly states they have little knowledge of the tech they're using. But they're CERTAIN in what the industry will be in future.
Hubris
Until we play with it, it doesn't exist.
Water fluoridation is a net-benefit to society.
Topic is serious enough to warrant discussion.
Also, I never said it was a "downside". I'm simply stating that the author is exaggerating what the LLM is doing. It isn't creating novel code.
I used LLMs all the time to spit out boilerplate when it makes sense.
Except it was. It wasn't regurgitating the exact answer it gave you, but it was using the collective knowledge of StackOverflow/other code to generate the solution.
Give your head a shake.
Assistants are so easy to use yet we should drop everything to "learn"/"adopt" them? Why not just wait until they're not complete dumpster fires then start using them?
Is it? How do you show that? Was he just lucky? Did he divine the right answer by listening to the voice in his head?
I don't disagree with the premise; when your body is screaming at you to do something that should feel unnatural you should be listening. That's evolution and learned experience trying to steer you away from danger or toward some kind of reward. But the blanket statement of "Stop analyzing your gut feelings" is just silly.
My gut tells me to do stupid shit all the time; if I didn't spend time thinking through the impacts of what may appear to be an "irrational" decision I'd expect to make many mistakes. This also gives leaders a complete scapegoat excuse when things explode (see WFH vs RTO, explosive hiring vs mass layoffs); hey, he was just following his gut, can't get it right every time.