darkerside

No, it's a specific direction to look information up in docs or online rather than relying on model training.

If zebras cause blindness, perhaps you should consider zebras?

That song was made popular by Sublime. Not written and never performed by Bob Marley. Great track though!

In fairness, you could throw the most senior engineer into a brand new codebase, and they would probably make a dozen mistakes if you immediately had them pick up invasive and risky work.

I'm sure the finance market is much larger as well

The problem then is that if you're not using Fable/Mythos, you are under threat. It's like having a single gun manufacturer.

On this track, we're probably destined for a monopoly breakup before too long.

Not even. Tell the model to write a test of your code. There's your vulnerability.

It's explained better in the original source. I don't agree with it, but I understand it now, but I also think we need to move past it.

And it was the dumbest and least valuable stock traders that exited the industry. The industry is alive and well today.

Teaching is a lot like (a certain style of) management. You learn what motivates someone, make the connection between that and the subject matter at hand, and make it accessible for them to get to the next level. The rest takes care of itself.

active silicon

This is not necessarily a functioning chip.

The whole thing runs on survivorship bias. And if you don't agree, just wait and see.

History bears out that cheap and satisficing soundly beats expensive and optimal every time. Until we have smarter and more prescient decision makers in leadership, the bottleneck on output will be the quality of decision making not the quality of code. Trying more things faster and cheaper will win.

If it were really groundbreaking, I imagine it wouldn't have burned out after a little missed hype. See No Man's Sky.

The other way to look at this is, thank goodness we didn't waste months or years on a failed game concept. Instead we got to market and validated (or invalidated) the concept fast.

Marketing, networking, and sales are the job. Or a large part of it. If you don't have connections, knowing how to make connections is part of it.

Accept that there are other skills besides engineering, and they can be just as challenging to learn, and just as opaque from the outside of you don't understand it.

Sadly, it's more likely that people will just start talking like bots

Roald

How many dumb ideas that we had as kids turn out to be good

I'd be wary of testing this as binary. It's not self centered versus not. It's a continuum, which I think you understand because you discuss making progress.

But, what you don't seem to acknowledge is that you don't hear what you don't hear. Some groups may be quietly judging you in a way that is VERY difficult to perceive because you don't understand their subtle social cues. Or, maybe you have perfect social awareness in all situations. I truly don't know.

The problem with the latter has always been the same. It requires careful review to ensure that system boundaries aren't being crossed. It's very obvious if your repo sounds to access to a new database. Less so if it imports a function directly from an inappropriate package.

It's always been like this, just on a smaller scale. Every time you join a group, some people can read the room, learning and sensing the cultural implications, while others step in all the landmines and don't even hear the explosions. How do you do this? Not sure how to explain it, mostly calibration through experience!

Those will be great for projects that look just like everybody else's. That's not a knock. We'll see plenty of new systems built by anyone who needs one.

If you're building something groundbreaking and new, the advantage will be slim to none.

So the problem is these particles are literally flying off the gloves of the scientists wearing them to the point it's interfering with the experiment and so... it's less of a problem?

So why would you outsource it to another team that isn't doing the actual work?

I'd say it's more related to getting dressed for work even if you're remote and have no video calls

That's a terrible reason for a mass consumer tool to fail, and a perfectly reasonable one for a professional power tool to fail

Jevons paradox strikes again

That's not AI speak -- it's just how people create clarity

Why the fuck would you use an LLM to determine whether a nuclear missile was hurtling towards you? The question makes no sense, and so you get a nonsensical answer.

Seems not unlikely that Anthropic was manipulated into this position for purposes of invalidating their contract.

Have you raised this question with others, or do they think the same about you?

He thinks the others are NPCs