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To be fair, even reading 'good' books won't make you smart. I think the key is to be critical, which should be thought at a young age. Ikram Antaki dedicated most of her last years…

Long ago we abstracted programming into a logical language which allow us to think at a higher level. IMO LLMs are another abstraction but a bad one as it is stochastic and we can'…

The idea of offshoring computing is good. However, the cloud developed as a centralized computing platform instead of a distributed one. This has created power dynamics that harm c…

I think AI labs are realizing that they no longer have any competitive advantage other than being the incumbents. Plus hardware improvements might render their models irrelevant fo…

I don't really think it is turning into a guesswork. A lot of people wrote bad code before by pasting things from the internet they didn't understand. I think some people are using…

What does an AI degree provide? Is it really different than majoring in CS? AI has been pretty standard in CS undergrad programs AFAIK. At least in high school it seems that AI cur…

I do agree with his identification of the problem: sometimes agents fail because of the tools around it and not because of the model's reasoning. However, for the failing tests I t…

I don't think so, have you read 'The Bonobo and the atheist'? Humans are not the only ones using tools and in reality there isn't much difference between humans and animals. The co…

Yeah, there is also the work of primatologists which challenges some of our beliefs of what we think is human sciences (like politics). See Frans De Waal. Yet, I believe there hasn…

There are some research projects out there that use LLMs for health diagnostics. Here's one: https://cs.stanford.edu/people/jure/pubs/med-pmlr23.pdf They usually require more data …

I agree. Most of the time people think STEM is harder but it is not. Yes, it is harder to understand some concepts, but in social sciences we don't even know what the correct conce…

I believe iMessage is only used in the USA. In Latin America almost everyone uses WhatsApp.

That is very interesting. It is funny to see how influential the federal government has been on society, infrastructure and other areas of life. Specially considering that some peo…

Agree. Texas is pretty bad. In most places you cannot exist without a car. No wonder Mcallen is the most obese city the US.

Transportation influences urban development. That is why most houses have a garage. There is no such thing as private transport (streets are public). Transportation has been heavil…

The problems of centralization. Some economic sectors are centralized by nature, IT is not.

I find it very useful for code comprehension. For writing code it still struggles (at least codex) and sometimes I feel I could have written the code myself faster rather than corr…

I think LLMs are helpful for understanding code. I used to spend like an hour trying to find where something very specific was made, and now I can just ask an LLM and it finds it r…

I agree with the point that learning requires work. In general, everything worth doing requires work. This is one of the things I often have to remind myself, otherwise I spend the…

The robotics thing to replace caregivers misses the point that elder people also want connection. Yeah, it might free caregivers but still we will have a loneliness epidemic. I thi…

As someone else mentioned here: not all technical debt is created equal. I agree, sometimes the problem are changing requirements, etc. But it is also true that there is technical …

Maybe is because of what Steve Jobs mentioned about talented programmers having more power than CEOs as they can easily switch jobs.

> "I expect us to go back to extending our agents with the most accessible programming language: natural language." I don't agree with this. Natural language is so ambiguous. At le…

I was thinking the same thing. Maybe is that at the end the author seems to imply that agentic AI will work simply because models have become better regardless of the way we make t…

I think this is purely first mover advantage. We get stuck with bad products simply because those were the first products on the market. It is difficult to change them once everyon…