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ChatGPT Pulse
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#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.
The "you only think you're more productive" argument is tiresome. Yes, I know for sure that I'm more productive. There's nothing uncertain about it. Does it lead to other problems? No doubt, but claiming my productivity gains are imaginary is not serious. I've seen a lot of people who previously touted that it doesn't work at all use that study as a way to move the goalpost and pretend they've been right all along.
I would be interested to know how you measure your productivity gains though, in an objective way where you're not the victim of bias.
I just recently had to rate whether I felt like I got more done by leaning more on Claude Code for a week to do a toy project and while I _feel_ like I was more productive, I was already biased to think so, and so I was a lot more careful with my answer, especially as I had to spend a considerable amount of time either reworking the generated code or throwing away several hours of work because it simply made things up.
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#303I am pleading with you all. Don't give away your entire identity to this or any other company.
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#304I'm thinking OpenAI's strategy is to get users hooked on these new features to push ads on them. Hey, for that recipe you want to try, have you considered getting new knives or cooking ware? Found some good deals. For your travel trip, found a promo on a good hotel located here -- perfect walking distance for hiking and good restaraunts that have Thai food. Your running progress is great and you are hitting strides?…
Even if they don't serve ads, think of the data they can share in aggregate. Think Facebook knows people? That's nothing.
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#305Watch out, Meta. OpenAI is going to eat your lunch.
Meta is busy with this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45379514
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
At best, it has probabilistic biases. OpenAI had to train newer models to not favor the name "Lily." They have to do this manually for every single particular bias that the models generate that is noticed by the public. I'm sure there are many such biases that aren't important to train out of responses, but exist in latent space.
>At best, it has probabilistic biases. What do you think humans have?
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Blockchain is essentially useless. You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secure, easy-to-access place. We might call it a bank. The end state of crypto is always just a nightmarish dystopia. Wealth isn't created by hoarding digital currency, it's created by prod…
Humanities biggest ever wealth storing thing is literally a ROCK
These?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rai_stones
The first photo in Wikipedia is great. I wonder how often foreigners bought them and then lugged them back home to have in their garden.
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#308Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels like blockchain again in a lot of weird ways. It doesn't feel like blockchain at all. Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented (unless you're a criminal or an influencer who makes ungodly amounts of money off of suckers). AI is a powerful tool for those who are willing to put in the work. People who have the time, knowledge and crit…
> My personal productivity has skyrocketed in the last 12 months. Has your productivity objectively, measurably improved or does it just feel like it has improved? Recall the METR study which caught programmers self-reporting they were 20% faster with AI when they were actually 20% slower.
I'm not who you responded to. I see about a 40% to 60% speed up as a solution architect when I sit down to code and about a 20% speedup when building/experimenting with research artifacts (I write papers occasionally).
I have always been a careful tester, so my UAT hasn't blown up out of proportion.
The big issue I see is rust it generates code using 2023-recent conventions, though I understand there is some improvement in thst direction.
Our hiring pipeline is changing dramatically as well, since the normal things a junior needs to know (code, syntax) is no longer as expensive. Joel Spolsky's mantra to higher curious people who get things done captures well the folks I find are growing well as juniors.
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#309Earlier quoted context omitted.
Often someone’s personal productivity with AI means someone else have to dig through their piles of rubbish to review PR they committed. In your particular case it sounds like you’re rapidly loosing your developer skills, and enjoy that now you have to put less effort and think less.
Another way of viewing it would be that LLMs allow software developers to focus their development skills where it actually matters (correctness, architecture etc.), rather than wasting hours catering to the framework or library of the day’s configuration idiosyncrasies. That stuff kills my motivation to solve actual problems like nothing else. Being able to send off an agent to e.g. fix some build script bug so that…
The path forward here is to have better frameworks and libraries, not to rely on a random token generator.
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#310They're really trying everything. They need the Google/Apple ecosystem to compete against them. Fb is adding LLMs to all its products, too. Personally, I stopped using ChatGPT months ago in favor of other services, depending on what I'm trying to accomplish. Luckily for them, they have a big chunk of the "pie", so they need to iterate and see if they can form a partnership with Dell, HP, Canonical, etc, and take the…
>Fb is adding LLMs to all its products, too.
FB’s efforts so far have all been incredibly lame. AI shines in productivity and they don’t have any productivity apps. Their market is social which is arguably the last place you’d want to push AI (this hasn’t stopped them from trying).
Google, Apple and Microsoft are the only ones in my opinion who can truly capitalize on AI in its current state, and G is leading by a huge margin. If OAI and the other model companies want to survive, long term they’d have to work with MSFT or Apple.