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One up. To Aristotle and Plato. Where Plato was against writing because people will become forgetful if they don’t train their minds remembering things.
It was Socrates that was skeptical about writing. We only know this because his student Plato wrote it down.
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I dont know what to tell you. I guess - correct your misconceptions? Carbon footprint of commute is in KGs of CO2. A day's worth of AI, depending on model, is ~15-100g of CO2. Heck food you eat has more than a few Kgs of footprint everyday.
Does that include the training?
https://libguides.usc.edu/blogs/USC-AI-Beat/hidden-costs-of-...
>> I am a little bit scared to say this too: last month I spent almost 10k USD on tokens. It sounds so insane. No it just sounds completely stupid. You spent $10k to get a program to write text that you can write yourself just as well and for free. "Dissonance" doesn't even begin to describe it. It's like suddenly everyone has turned into the listless blobs of fat that humans have turned into in Wall-E. I just hope a…
> You spent $10k to get a program to write text that you can write yourself just as well and for free. "You spent $1k on a flight ticket from SFO to NYC when you could have just walked yourself just as well and for free"
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This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure. Every business could be using subscription free spreadsheet software and storing all of their data on prem and employing an IT team to manage the servers and data but the majority choose to pay a third party to handle all of that. Hell, they could even go so far as to do it all manually with written records and filing cabinets. All of those wor…
> This is just a repackaged argument against SaaS and cloud infrastructure. Which, ironically enough, is still a terrible idea for a lot of businesses. But it's trendy, so they go with it.
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I might be missing something but what exactly is being projected here? The US did what the author said. It's not farfetched to imagine geopolitical conflicts could, at some point, drive china to do something similar. > all the frontier models from China are free to download Maybe? Again, not hard to imagine that they might not be releasing their actual frontier models to the public.
I guess China did not deserve mention. They are the only one releasing open models consitently and not cutting any access. Only US actions show evidence and for the US only.
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> You spent $10k to get a program to write text that you can write yourself just as well and for free. "You spent $1k on a flight ticket from SFO to NYC when you could have just walked yourself just as well and for free"
0.25 day flight vs 120+ day walk doesn't really seem like a fair comparison, nobody is hundreds of times more productive from this.
> LLM’s amplify what you already have: opinions, structure, frameworks. So far, so agreeable, but… > If you have thoughts, they come out sharper and faster. I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. Actual muscles need exercise to stay in shape (let alone grow), so does the brain. Can we really be sure that thou…
> I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. Compiler evolutions really harmed how well software engineers understand or how often they have to drop down to assembly language. Is that a problem for the 99% of developers around? Probably not. I view LLMs as the next evolution. Some people will still need to care a…
> LLM’s amplify what you already have: opinions, structure, frameworks. So far, so agreeable, but… > If you have thoughts, they come out sharper and faster. I can’t help but wonder whether constant use of “agent” harnesses will lead to an atrophy of the software engineering (or really any field) muscles. Actual muscles need exercise to stay in shape (let alone grow), so does the brain. Can we really be sure that thou…
I'm frankly baffled by the number of commenters saying they've seen little productivity gains using LLMs/agents. My team got cut in half at the end of last year and we've probably increased our output by 25% primarily due to LLMs. Personally it's probably doubled my productivity. And we generally use a pretty structured spec based approach with consistent human code review, and six months into adoption we've had virt…
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> Conversely, I also am a user of LLMs (true shocker these days, I know), and am noticing a speedup in areas I was already familiar with, and a quicker introduction to new ones. The obvious benefit cannot be denied, and doing so regardless makes you look uninformed. [Excluding people who don’t want anything to do with LLMs out of moral principle, which curiously just like the overarching topic I also both respect and…
> What about me ... While I can see that you feel very passionately about this, the reality is that it's the majority experience that will dictate adoption. There may never be published research on productivity -- blinding in this instance is impossible, so I don't know how you'd ever do fully-controlled behavioural studies that carried any weight. It doesn't matter. If enough of us decide that LLMs are useful to us,…
>> I am a little bit scared to say this too: last month I spent almost 10k USD on tokens. It sounds so insane. No it just sounds completely stupid. You spent $10k to get a program to write text that you can write yourself just as well and for free. "Dissonance" doesn't even begin to describe it. It's like suddenly everyone has turned into the listless blobs of fat that humans have turned into in Wall-E. I just hope a…
> You spent $10k to get a program to write text that you can write yourself just as well and for free. "You spent $1k on a flight ticket from SFO to NYC when you could have just walked yourself just as well and for free"