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What are some examples of a nerfed response? I just asked Gpt4 to help me write a python program to analyze the sentiment and determine if biases are present in mathematical research papers in a PDF format.

Sure, it needs some love and there were some abstractions. For instance it assumed we had a labeled dataset for the text and the associated sentiment, but beyond that it worked fine.

How many presidents have held onto power in the US history?

I see the point you're driving at but the democratic institution of the US has explicit guard rails against this. We force presidents to step down because we _know_ that voluntary relinquishing of power is unlikely.

I do see money as a proxy for power. If you make enough of it you can influence public opinion, enrich or destroy education, buy twitter, etc.

1) Those in power tend to not give up said power. There are exceptions of course. Take for example the contracting of the British empire. However, as the outcomes of significant societal changes become less clear, those in power and comfort are less likely to forfeit those advantages.

2) In my own little bubble, no one I know is particularly fulfilled by creating crud API's and gluing together microservices. I'd bet that with guaranteed financial stability finding meaning in life would become easier, not harder.

Interesting data. Looks like postings are still up nearly 100% since the bottom of the covid curve.

I'd be interested in seeing this compared to other non-tech job postings. I'd expect the trends wouldn't match entirely but that software development jobs are still in higher demand.

I wonder if the world is trending in this direction. If anything, the moat between the two is growing larger, highlighting the differences. Everyone in your bubble may seem to be growing and learning, but you're also the type who spends their off time browsing highly technical message boards.

Interesting read, thanks for sharing.

Adding to what was said about high quality customer feedback, a downturn will tend to more quickly expose weak product market fit. In lean times, companies are less likely to experiment with new tools or processes that don't have strong and clear value propositions. If you're targeting an emerging or growing market a downturn may be a good time to test that markets' staying power.

Soft skills rely heavily on connecting with the people you're interfacing with in meaningful ways. For example: discerning what is being said be a speaker from what the speaker is actually trying to convey. Tone, subtle facial expressions, body language, or otherwise deeply human characteristics all contribute to every day basic interactions. I'm not sure drilling social interactions with an algorithm will provide much value here.

Interesting idea. Accountability to one's self is one thing, accountability to others is another. Have you considered adding a social aspect to this? Some way to broadcast goals being met, similar to how an apple watch alerts others when the wearer completes a workout?

Fake review checkers are vulnerable to the same problems real reviews are. People run the software. People can be bought. For me, nothing beats sorting reviews by "new" and doing a sniff test of the most glowing reviews. If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck, it's probably cheap Chinese bullshit.

+1 for SC's 7 habits

Early in my career, my manager gave me the feedback that sometimes my eagerness to participate outsized my ability to understand. I never meant to suck the air out of the room, I was just so excited to build cool stuff! He recommended reading up on Stephen Covey and suggested that when collaborating on designs/debugging/etc. as a team, to practice being the last to speak. Life-changing advice.