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Source: it was revealed to me in a dream

The trajectory is that the LLM providers have been making prompting increasingly dead-simple for the past 2 years. Any edge a group of individuals may have in knowing how to use LL…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_and_Bill's_law > What Andy giveth, Bill taketh away

Nah, I disagree. I can see why you think this is another piece glorifying engineers at the expense of the business. However, as a technical founder in a former life, I saw a handfu…

This is a technique called LLM-as-Judge. Well-studied at this point. Here’s a good intro: https://www.evidentlyai.com/llm-guide/llm-as-a-judge I recommend reading Hamel.dev posts. …

> If you ever listen to music and sing along, even for a few seconds, the volume cuts Yup, and I also have this problem when I laugh out loud listening to comedy podcasts.

> We have tolerated low quality art for far too long because we pretend mechanical dexterity is what makes art, art. Who is “we” in this sentence? A tiny subsection of metalheads? …

I felt the same way and came to the comments to see if anyone else smelled it. It's either AI-assisted writing or people are genuinely starting to write like how ChatGPT sounds. Fi…

And where did those people get their Masters degrees and PhDs from?

Another reason: individual liberty is and has been an important value in the tech community since the 1960s.

If choosing your place of employment to align with your values is a “virtue signal,” then maybe we should all be signaling our virtues a lot more.

This is so sad. I read this comment a few hours ago and keep thinking about it. You seem to be making a relatively good effort to understand but coming up short. Our society is so …

If you’d trust generative AI over a physician, go in wide-eyed knowing that you’re still placing your trust in some group of people. You just don’t have an individual to blame if s…

“Labor power” in this context refers to unions, collective bargaining, and so on. The NLRB has been de facto shut down by this administration.

A blog post from a parody of Silicon Valley productivity blogs.

Finally, someone in this thread says this. Thank you! This opinion column from The Hill is written by a Fox News contributor. Of course it’s going to leave out certain inconvenient…

One of the rebuttals at the end of the post addresses this. > That’s only true when you’re in a large corporation. When you’re by yourself, when you’re the stakeholder as well as t…

How many of those users are paying users? What’s the churn rate? And how profitable are OpenAI and other providers? They’re running at a loss. The startups using LLMs as their prod…

Sometimes the tradeoff is that someone gets richer / inflates their ego while most people’s lives get worse in a tangible way.

The way you phrased it reveals how these model providers have framed the conversation in their favor. Models don’t “think.”

No serious attempts yet but there are seeds being sown by high-profile right wingers to manufacture consent: https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/right-wing-media-ca...