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> Same reason why apparently slop-filled resumes work better these days. It'll also filter the kinds of employers that'll hire such candidates, so people that do this will likely land in terrible workplaces.
It’s a nice thought, but it’s probably not true as the AI becomes integrated into standard hiring tools
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Your perspective is a short arc. “Look what I can do now and look it made me way more productive.” I have no doubt it is true, you are on the up right now. However thinking of the long arc is important to, even though it has no consequence for you right now. AI is a force multiplayer and scarily dangerous in the wrong hands. We can already see by these discussions how uncertain things are. Just food for thought.
I've been on the up, and the down, the lull and the acceptance. AI as it stands today will bring destruction to the world we knew. However, that doesn't mean the end of the world. Rather a new beginning, and we get to shape what that might look like. Sadly, all signs point to medieval times and digital feudalism but at least we have history to fall back on. Until such time occurs, AI will continue to bring value to c…
All AI companies have slop press sites that hype them up. What we saw since 2020 is the largest industrial propaganda campaign in history. It started with Lex Fridman planted interviews to make AI researchers appear human and ends with AI awarding AI prizes. Mainstream journalists didn't know any better and thought they were reading secret inside information and parroted it - until now when the house of cards is coll…
> It started with Lex Fridman planted interviews to make AI researchers appear human and ends with AI awarding AI prizes. You should expand on this. Would be interesting to hear more about the propaganda apparatus at play.
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One of my first gigs as a consultant was to write a project management system for a company that didn't really need a custom project management system. The CEO pulled me aside and told me the only important feature of the project management system was that you couldn't assign the same priority to two features. I would be blamed for making such a crappy project management system, but that's what I was there for. Once…
> the only important feature of the project management system was that you couldn't assign the same priority to two feature That is a good idea for a project management system. Force ranking of priorities.
AI is useful. But the amount of people that are simply offloading all of their thinking to AI and blindly accepting the answer is absurd. Kaggle is most likely using ai to assess the submissions and are not using any common sense by blindly accepting the results.
I think we need to address the underlying causes of people outsourcing their thinking like that. And a big contribution is “move fast.” No one has time to read, process, and think, because The Powers That Be (capital) want their results now.
It's the second law of thermodynamics. People trying to achieve their lowest sustainable energy state.
I don't know about this exact competition but overall fair hackathons have been killed by AI. It all seems fine from the outside but all the code is generated in all the projects and judging happens via AI, I have seen projects win because they prompt inject that they are the winners. It used to be about human skill, now it's about ideas and of course insiders are the main winners.
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> AI hasn't done anything we couldn't already do. It's just doing it faster and with more mistakes. You forgot CHEAPER (at least now, burning VC money), which is a major motivating factor.
When you factor in all the factors (fixing issues, implementing features that were added only because it was easy and shouldn’t exist in the first place, losing skills in the process (this one is a fact), losing grip on the codebase etc - it is not cheaper at all, probably more expensive
I thought Kaggle was a website where you download dubious CSV files of annualized bean consumption in Bolivia, or whatever. Was Kaggle ever a reputable source of original research, or a source of anything with any provenance at all? That would be news to me. The fact that 25 grand was involved this time is unique, I guess.
They also host the arc prize challenge with prices up to 850k https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2026-arc-agi-3...
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While I agree with you in principle, I think the parent has a point here: where's the amazing product that couldn't have been done without AI? By now we should have seen some major new invention/company, incredibly fast revolutionary feature rollouts etc but I'm just seeing more of the same.
> " where's the amazing product that couldn't have been done without AI? " My phone can search my photos with text based on what's represented in the photo. That wasn't a thing for computers from 1950 through about 2012, and now it's just normal. Google Lens will tell you what a plant is, Merlin app will identify birds from birdsong. In 2000 we had Dragon Naturally Speaking and Kurzweil VoicePad, now we have voice re…
The vacuum is a great example of an actual invention. Making it "autonomous" just isn't that impressive.