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It made me think, considering how much content is being written with AI, would an LLM ever write something like this?
For some reason they I can’t explain, the article smells human and I don’t use the word smell as a bad thing.
This article is very well written and you can enjoy it regardless you agree or not. It made me think, considering how much content is being written with AI, would an LLM ever write something like this? For some reason they I can’t explain, the article smells human and I don’t use the word smell as a bad thing.
As a product manager I have found people's understanding of what they want to be tenuous at best. They know they want it to be easier, less frustrating, and do the darn thing they want. But collecting the input of all the people with the power to make choices, boiling that all down, and actually figuring out what will work is a total bottle neck. Technology and programming have hardly ever actually been a blocker. Le…
> Could you imagine if you found everything interesting? You’d spend years living in a basement curating a wiki of late Soviet military hardware or something. This was a good read but this felt like a personal attack :)
This may be some saltiness on my part. I wish I could curate the wiki of late Soviet military hardware!
> Is an agent going to match the effectiveness of methylphenidate in ADHD? I doubt it.
having, only recently, been diagnosed, it is clear to me methylphenidate > claude-sub-pro-max
This was a fantastic article and beautifully captured something I had been circling but hadn't quite put into words: > The notetaking people—and I say this with all the love in the world—are never, like, a researcher at the cutting edge of their field, building this vast cathedral of knowledge, note-by-note, so they can derive new insights. Never a historian who has to read tens of millions of words across thousands…
> it's a force multiplier, but there has to be some force to multiply The assumption here is that the multiplier x is a number >1 and not a fraction <1
I laughed out loud when I read this paragraph. There are so many "consciousness" or "memory" or "learning" AI bullshit startups right now...all of them not understanding how positional encoding of LLMs work. It's getting so ridiculous that I don't even understand why they're in the (uncurated) news everywhere.
It's like everyone tries it out, and writes without any journalistic integrity because it's a sponsored article that costs 100$, and moves on. Spamming as a bought in service or something. It doesn't make sense to me, and I have no clue how broken the economics of this must be to get into the state of "AI news" we are in right now. Excuse my French, but something must be utterly broken.
As a product manager I have found people's understanding of what they want to be tenuous at best. They know they want it to be easier, less frustrating, and do the darn thing they want. But collecting the input of all the people with the power to make choices, boiling that all down, and actually figuring out what will work is a total bottle neck. Technology and programming have hardly ever actually been a blocker. Le…
Most time the best they can muster is “A faster horse”
Heh, joke's on the author. I've built both a flashcard app and a notes app using AI, and I've learned more Polish in 6 months than other languages I've studied for years. Jury still out on the notes app. But of course he's not really wrong. I've been a heavy user of Anki and a heavy reader of certain schools of academic literature on second language acquisition and knew exactly what I wanted and why and how it differ…
Then… I wanted to apply this to (beginner level) language learning. And yep you have to be disciplined to go through the cards daily, but it works.
My app is 100% free so my trick was to have users write what they need, the app generates a prompt to give to any AI provider, which in turn gives you back a JSON that will be converted into a deck.
Nothing truly ground breaking, but again it works for beginner level concepts :-)
This was a fantastic article and beautifully captured something I had been circling but hadn't quite put into words: > The notetaking people—and I say this with all the love in the world—are never, like, a researcher at the cutting edge of their field, building this vast cathedral of knowledge, note-by-note, so they can derive new insights. Never a historian who has to read tens of millions of words across thousands…
> It’s always some blogger. Their “digital garden” is about how to keep a digital garden. (...) never a researcher (...) never a historian It's quite possible that those researchers and historians do exist, but are working instead of posting about notetaking. It's like saying the people who write Python tutorials never seem to ship anything impressive, so Python must be useless.