colinrand

I could not agree more. We need less tech in classrooms, not more.

Enterprise adoption of this type of cryptographic authentication is nil.

I like this direction, but I don't think the crypto angle is necessary or practical in an enterprise / corporate setting. Current audit and compliance frameworks don't leverage or really recognize or encourage cryptographically based proof of action, so I don't see the agentic world as needing this to drive agentic adoption.

However, everything else you lay out is spot on.

This is super sketch for others on the platform. First hand experience from using OCI - they have severe capacity constraints and need _lots_ of heads up when you want to increase your usage of things. Auto scaling it ain't.

So if OpenAI starts drawing significant resources from their cloud hardware, good luck gettin your own. Including me :)

This is a very economically driven situation in the US. Upper middles load their kids up non stop with educational stuff outside of the schools, but the lower middle on down can't afford this (it's really expensive) and school often functions primarily as child care.

I always get very skeptical with putting more technology in the classrooms (at least here in the US). The primary problem is funding and too many kids for a single teacher. Educational innovation comes in with a bang and out with a whimper when the study turns out to be flawed, often quite severely.

I'm sure LLMs can augment learning in some settings, esp in higher ed, but putting more computer time for kids learning basics (I mean K-8 mostly) I hope is handled more carefully than things like Quizlet...

We were there over the summer and this was such a fantastic activity for my kids. It got them looking up at the buildings and really helped draw their attention to architecture and build a better mental map in their heads of the city. Not going to comment on if having a map is good or not, but the project is amazing.

Has anyone else noticed that their connection count stays 'correct' but a significant number of people that I used to be connected to now are surfaced as recommendations for me to connect with? It's absurd! I doubt people regularly go through their networks and unconnect from people that they don't want to keep in touch with, kind of defeats the purpose. So wth?

I have started thinking more about the traditional relationship between labor and management whenever someone brings up the topic of managing in the modern era. (Perhaps its because my highschooler is taking US History...) What I always find missed is that modern management glosses over the fundamental clash of interests, the IC interest versus the business interest, and that it is the manager's role to guide through carrots and sticks the IC to achieve the business interests. It often take many layers of management to complete the messaging gymnastics required to guide and hide the IC workers directions. But if you don't understand labor, you're missing a big responsibility of management.

Analyst firms (ie Gartner) are a big driver of this too. Couple that with the start up / VC model which needs to create new 'categories' to demonstrate differentiation, and you have a total mess.

Fwiw, I read the FAQ yesterday. It was either not there or else my blinders were on to not find anything.

What I find sketchy is that it is not easy to find out who is behind this service. The norm is an about us or a link to a parent site. Briefly skimmed the legalese (ToS & Privacy) and still not clear who these people or where they operate from. The linkedin link shows 8 people working there, mostly in BD from outside the US.

I don't think there is a nefarious purpose going on, i.e. getting people to sign up and stealing their info or payments, etc. However, it contributes to the erosion of trust on the internet. You're no longer sure if you're talking to a real dog in pajamas online or an AI pretending to be one.

it's not a one time scrape, but a continual tuning

I haven't seen much discussion in defense of Reddit protecting their content from LLM training competitors. This to me is why they have to crack down on their API, it's no longer just SEO links back, it's training someone else's models on your content and community for free. This to me is the elephant. It's horrible how they treat their app community, but this is a massive problem for them.

I put a lot of blame on the new POS 'self checkout' style that Square and Toast popularized. These let you configure the system to default add the tipping prompt, and it detaches the service provider from the self consciousness of asking for a tip at inappropriate times. Previously, there were only a few times when a consumer would be prompted for a tip in an official capacity - i.e. from a server at a restaurant - now, it can be institutionalized with the push of an admin button in some backend web console that any finance person can push and configure.

just a nit, where is the link to part 1?

Having a teenager, I've seen the bullying and caustic behavior without social media. One classic example is for a group of friends to be on a iMessage thread together, and suddenly nobody posts to it anymore because they've created another thread and left you off.

I think this round of LLM will decimate some previously considered core parts of 'tech' in one fundamental way. Those already skilled in tech, will be able to garner huge productivity gains and displace the need for additional human support. I'll support this with two perspectives.

1) I began in tech in the mid 90s as a software engineer on a small team building a rudimentary ecommerce type app, written in C, compiled as an apache module, without a database. Now, multiple generations of programming tech later, look at the frameworks and higher level languages, tools and IaC, and you have amazingly complex and powerful systems being built by the same number of engineers in a fraction of the effort.

2) I, now as an engineering leader, can crank out a marketing blog if I put my mind and interest to it. But, I can write an outline and ask ChatGPT to finish it and it's decent. I can ask it to re-write my customer facing docs in a different style. I can do all sorts of amazing transformations of content, extract key snippets for headlines, write summaries, expand ideas, and I focus on the important knowledge work.

I think that this type of AI will cause those with experience that can leverage the tech to become even more entrenched as they can leverage experience and wield their influence via these tools creating much more widely felt impacts. Whether it be in marketing, sales, support, documentation, etc, the few will be able to accomplish much more with much less. Small teams with better tools will _always_ be more productive than larger teams.

Probably not the right place to post this, but I really want someone to build a ChatGPT service that reviews consumer EULAs and highlights the important stuff, and can tell me what changes with them each time I have to reaccept or get notified. It's a subset of making legalese digestible, but bringing more visibility into the density of them would be wondrous.

I would love to see a future of small hairless Galvespians inhabiting the planet.

YMMV, but the thing that seems to work in my house (mid teen girl) is to actively be engaged with her social life and have the meta (not Meta) conversation about social media impact with her regularly. She will have to learn to deal with her reality and live with it on her own, but helping her have a set of tools to describe and analyze it is beneficial. Tools like being aware of how much time she spends on it, how other people are affected by it, how apps affect your behavior, etc. But it all starts with engaging as a parent with her on her level, not forcing her to be an adult with a fully formed executive function capacity.

Markets are not oriented to solve problems for social and societal needs, that is supposed to be the government for the people's concern. If we as a society want this solved, and the government of the people for the people does not, this represents a failure of the social contract to be governed.

Couldn't even be bothered to run it through ChatGPT first?

With many new ideas, the early folks love the benefits and aren't put off by the challenges. With ZTNA, after doing quite a few deployments myself, I can say that the biggest challenges are operational. Nothing will piss off developers more than having had access to a resource one day, lose it unexpectedly, and then not know who to track down to get it back. Or, users hating on their VPN, want something else, and then that something else (often just another VPN provider) works differently and causes them disruptions. ZTNA is a long journey, not a quick fix.

I played sometimes as DnD as a kid growing up, and remember it was pretty straight forward to plunk down with friends in and afternoon and just have fun with it. I tried playing with my kids last year during lockdown and OMG...it took me 2 hrs to read the basic rules, 4 hrs to set up the characters, and then another 2 hrs to find where my kids had run of to because they got so bored with it!!! In the end, one loves it but it takes so much effort to set up and play that it can be overwhelming.

I appreciate the authors sentiments but I missed perhaps the most important one to me. Crypto has really re-invigorated interest in DIY/Tinkerer/random projects with no real purpose. These may appear pointless externally, but internally to the ones working on them they are incredibly fun, educational, and sure, potentially profitable. When industry / tech is in this chaotic phase, often the major benefit is figuring out what doesn't work, what fails, etc. If things were easy, everyone would do it, but when it's hard to get right, amazing innovation can happen along the way. Don't discount the random meandering towards solutions.

If Google has my passwords, can I trust them not to crawl sites using them?

Last night for giggles, I tried to see if I could get a few coins having dabbled in crypto over the years.

It was surprisingly hard.

Highlights: * Coinbase doesn't trade it. * Held my nose and tried to sign up for Robinhood last night, could get through their process as it kept crashing. * Ditto for Kraken. * Tried to download their wallet, required Java 6.

Gave up since I wasn't actually going to purchase more than $5 and won't touch the offshore exchanges.

Another interesting characteristic I've seen over the years from top performers is that they also have deleted the most code.

I think there is also a mismatch in current software development practices for proprietary SaaS product versus what learning environment need. Modern SaaS companies believe in updating their user experiences early and often i.e. 'continuous delivery vs. big bang' improvements. It's baked into our agile thinking at our core now.

However, in the learning environment, the last thing you want is for the platform to change in small, often subtle ways, that will confuse students and teachers, forcing them to spend time not on the material of the lesson but on the medium of the communications.

This causes significant and unnecessary frustration for all involved.