I noticed a lot more joy using AI from people at smaller companies or working by themselves :) I say this as someone self employed that burned almost $1000 on tokens last month. And had. A lot of fun doing it.
What’s your ROI for that $1000?
Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
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#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
OR join meta, sell your soul, stay for 7 years, then retire and be done with work forever!!!
I 100% understand the appeal of freedom from external pressures that retirement offers. But at the same time all the (many) people I know that retired early mostly just goof off and struggle to complete any of their many projects. And don’t get me wrong, I love goofing off. Been doing plenty of it. But given my inevitable death I have to appreciate a little external pressure forcing me to do good work.
Idk external pressure is mostly forcing me to participate in the corporate hellscape - would love to leave this and goof off as a goat farmer somewhere.
Let’s face it - most businesses don’t produce anything meaningful and just exist to realise the infinite growth fallacy of capitalism
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#334Here's how things play out: Zuck gets some idea, he's surrounded by a bunch of yes men who say "yes, this will definitely change the world", then it turns into this optics game of kissing the ring. You ask yourself "how could they blow 80B on the Metaverse like that", this is how. DON'T JOIN META, no matter how fast the recruiters reply to your messages. No matter how cool the work sounds (the managers lie in team ma…
Im joining meta for the total comp not because I give a shit about the company or products. Same as every company.
Re: Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
#335I noticed a lot more joy using AI from people at smaller companies or working by themselves :) I say this as someone self employed that burned almost $1000 on tokens last month. And had. A lot of fun doing it.
Meta is on the extreme other end of this. The article opens with how they're now using AI to monitor how everyone uses their computers. It's still insane to me that Meta thought this would be a good idea, or that employees would be comfortable with it even though they claim it's only used for anonymous AI training.
If they were competently evil they would have just done it quietly.
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#337Still amazes me anyone uses facebook. I can understand smoking or drinking, there is a chemical dependency. But that absolute crap? Its "las vegas slot machines at 4am" level miserable.
Re: Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable
#338Here's how things play out: Zuck gets some idea, he's surrounded by a bunch of yes men who say "yes, this will definitely change the world", then it turns into this optics game of kissing the ring. You ask yourself "how could they blow 80B on the Metaverse like that", this is how. DON'T JOIN META, no matter how fast the recruiters reply to your messages. No matter how cool the work sounds (the managers lie in team ma…
Im joining meta for the total comp not because I give a shit about the company or products. Same as every company.
OP was saying not to join because you'll have a shitty time, not because the products aren't inspirational enough.
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#339Not to mention making the rest of the world miserable too.
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#340Earlier quoted context omitted.
My current bar is “if you know I’m expecting to hear from a person don’t paste unedited ChatGPT outputs and hit send.” Everybody wants to send out the efforts of their corner-cutting, but nobody wants to receive them. Most people know when they are doing it. If you feel the need to obscure your LLM usage, it means you didn’t put enough of your own voice and work into the final draft and you need to do something about…
A lot of time I will just say “Gemini/Claude is telling me…” just like I would for a Google search result. Sometimes helpful to use the common wisdom embedded in the LLMs as a starting point for the discussion.
As soon as I read this phrase my eyes glaze over and I skip everything that comes after it.
If I want the LLM answer I freaking ask it myself