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> Or are we quickly approaching an apex where the people running these companies realize AI cannot completely replace human developers? The boosters are loud and the failures are m…

Cancelling a long term credit car can profoundly effect ones credit score sadly.

With pharmacies, people are emotional because their perscriptions getting filled can literally mean their livelihood, their health or their life. I hoard medications because my ins…

I find it hard to believe that patients like it given how sales work for these sorts of services - customer satisfaction is often the lowest priority given it’s ultimately a cost c…

Weakest negotiating position other than the customers. The funny part is probably a majority of pharmacies are owned by CVS or Walgreens each of which are insurance companies in th…

And even if the AI worked well enough (a claim to be proven by its proponents), companies wouldn’t give it access to be actually helpful. It’s all to save costs on routine calls, n…

If an AI representing a company I must do business with is trying to “empathize” with me to calm me down about not being able to access the services I pay them for, you better beli…

In his case, it could be called opposition research

That's a really common reaction to people first hearing about the delta between how society talks about the subject vs what they actually do about it. Its a bit like the fiction of…

> Hassabis seems to have been pushed aside. Yeah he seemed too reasonable to me, relative to the fervor. Whoever ends up in charge needs to do a lot of frothing to catch up to the …

I truly believe if we took a measely $50b out of the LLM world we could create trillion dollar economies from basic research within 10 years. I personally know folks who have intui…

> you instantly FEEL how smart and superior it is I felt taken by the change in the system model personality and writing style compared to opus, but I also found it to be much less…

As a self taught developer, LLMs can help you learn, it can help you explore ideas, and it can even build up a syllabus for you. It will also encourage you at every step to let it …

The deeper you get into dissociation, the more a LOT of mysterious or mystical human experiences start to make sense. The public generally doesn’t understand the mechanism or that …

Artisanship takes a back seat to the business peoples demands, and the business oriented people have been melding with software people for decades. Still, classes of bugs we used t…

> The number of things being found with hindsight remind me of "move fast and break things" development. It is the same mentality in all of business rn, everyone is ruthless and do…

Yes it is

They are going after everything, everywhere because their leadership is sociopathic and believes the means are justified by anything they can get away with. Mark had that aha momen…

That doesn't explain the observation of things that used to work breaking though, without any new features!

Its not you, it has gone up marketly. Microsoft and Google products are both subjectively far more prone to showstopping errors. There is no quantitative data for this so some will…

Well because you said that, we're going to add public investment in crypto too, everyone gets an NFT with their taxes this year.

Cambridge MS will open doors that will never open for you otherwise. Amazon will be there in 2 years, you won’t have control over your destiny, and things can go much more wrong th…

How is the token-cost-be-damned part in the latter example? I do find that both porting and translation projects have a much higher signal given the ease of mapping to tokens, when…

It has a lot of the properties of magic. You can put on quite a magic show with a trillion dollars.