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Yeah it's entirely possible the answer is: "You don't." But I haven't even seen people attempting to imagine life well-lived. Like with so much technology it's basically an afterth…

I've been pondering the question: "What does it mean to live well with AI?" We are certainly scrambling for productivity with "token maxxing" and scrambling for entertainment with …

I think that's a big part of what makes this era so much fun - the interactivity tailored to my capability. I feel like I'm 13 again discovering I can write HTML and feeling that g…

>> I haven’t had great luck with winding it up and setting it loose on a task Yeah there is real labor involved with trying to set up the right context and explain your goals and e…

Yeah, the social problem of "how do we use technology well" persists.

Can you elaborate? I might agree, I'm just curious what you mean.

Yeah in fact I think we are going through some major upheaval in development practices because we haven't yet figured out what constraints to put in our use of AI, and so plasterin…

Because they are already useful for programming and unlikely to get worse!

Sounds a lot like "nothing ever happens"?

Reduced costs does not necessarily equal reduced wages, but I see what you're saying. As others have pointed out, making cameras more accessible made photography more competitive. …

And worrying. LLMs don't fed themselves, we need people to continue sharing solutions. I've contributed some popular answers on SO myself and am happy that an LLM can use that in i…

I'm finding 2.4% unemployment rate for software developers: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope... Regardless of the true number, you're right that no amou…

Yeah, with current-state AI I foresee more such opportunities.

Yes, if you built your career on FrontPage you have probably had a bad time. Many such cases. That said, even if the specific products like Cursor or ChatGPT are not here in 5 year…

Really! That could make for some really interesting stories. Fascinating to think of LLMs as a customer acquisition pipeline for developers.

Claude made this point while reviewing my blog for me: the mechanization of farms created a whole lot more specialization of roles. The person editing CAD diagrams of next year's c…

Yeah I think the combine-harvester analogy is tempting because it's so easy to visualize how wheat can scale over a big square field and project that visual onto lines of code gene…

An interesting parallel because there were undoubtedly some people who worried we would lose something important in the craft of instruction-level programming, and almost certainly…

I also remember this! Maybe a subconscious influence

Thanks!

Oh I should have known - yeah I was just being facetious

Hi all - I write a lot for myself but typically don't share, hence the stream-of-consciousness style. But I thought this might be worth blogifying just for the sake of adding some …

At WHOI we frequently run into some of these issues. Ocean-going projects often have long periods of disconnect, or have just a tiny bandwidth-capped connections that are meant for…