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Post by tbossanova »

keeda wrote: post #312
risyachka wrote: post #291

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Closed PRs, commits, loc etc are useless vanity metrics. With ai code you have more loc and NEED more PRs to fix all its slop. In the end you have increased numbers with net negative effect

Most of those studies call this out and try to control for it (edit: "it" here being the usual limitations of LoC and PRs as measures of productivity) where possible. But to your point, no, there is still a strong net positive effect: > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbDDYKRFjhk (from Stanford, not an RCT, but the largest scale with actual commits from 100K developers across 600+ companies, and tries to account for…

Could you try to avoid uncertainties like this by measuring something like revenue growth before and after AI? Given enough data.

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Post by hatthew »

apprentice7 wrote: post #164
thekevan wrote: post #80

I wish it had the option to make a pulse weekly or even monthly. I generally don't want my AI to be proactive at a personal level despite it being useful at a business level. My wants are pretty low level. For example, I give it a list of bands and performers and it checks once a week to tell me if any of them have announced tour dates within an hour or two of me.

To be honest, you don't even need AI for something like that. You might just write a script to automate that kind of thing which is no more than a scrape-and-notify logic.

Bandsintown already does this

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by currymj »

thekevan wrote: post #80

I wish it had the option to make a pulse weekly or even monthly. I generally don't want my AI to be proactive at a personal level despite it being useful at a business level. My wants are pretty low level. For example, I give it a list of bands and performers and it checks once a week to tell me if any of them have announced tour dates within an hour or two of me.

they've already had that exact feature for a while, scheduled tasks are available in the settings menu. if you just tell the chat to schedule a task it will also make one automatically.

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Post by [deleted] »

jedbrooke wrote: post #174
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

> I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. Mate, I think you’ve got the roles of human and AI reversed. Humans are supposed to come up with creative ideas and let machines do the tedious wor…

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Post by rabf »

cheema33 wrote: post #329
eric_cc wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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) This is an incredibly uneducated take on multiple levels. If you're talking about Bitcoin specifically, even though you said "blockchain", I can understand this as a political talking about 8 years ago. But you're still banging this drum despite the current s…

I am in the camp that thinks that Blockchain is utterly useless for most people. Perhaps you can tell us about some very compelling use cases that have taken off.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/nasdaq-makes-push-l... https://corporate.visa.com/en/solutions/crypto/stablecoins.h... https://www.barrons.com/articles/sofi-blockchain-money-trans...

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by IncreasePosts »

moralestapia wrote: post #18
xwowsersx wrote: post #13

Google's edge obvious here is the deep integration it already has with calendar, apps, and chats and what not that lets them surface context-rich updates naturally. OpenAI doesn't have that same ecosystem lock-in yet, so to really compete they'll need to get more into those integrations. I think what it comes down to ultimately is that being "just a model" company isn't going to work. Intelligence itself will go to z…

How can you have an "edge" if you're shipping behind your competitors all the time? Lol.

Google has discover, which is used by like a 800M people/month, which already proactively delivers content to users.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by otabdeveloper4 »

jasonsb wrote: post #66
SirensOfTitan wrote: post #27

My pulse today is just a mediocre rehash of prior conversations I’ve had on the platform. I tried to ask GPT-5 pro the other day to just pick an ambitious project it wanted to work on, and I’d carry out whatever physical world tasks it needed me to, and all it did was just come up with project plans which were rehashes of my prior projects framed as its own. I’m rapidly losing interest in all of these tools. It feels…

> 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…

> Blockchain is probably the most useless technology ever invented

You can use blockchains to gamble and get rich quick, if you're lucky.

That's a useful thing. Unlike "AI", which only creates more blogspam and technical debt in the world.

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Post by Sharlin »

m_fayer wrote: post #274
jsheard wrote: post #76

Earlier 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.

It seems like the programming world is increasingly dividing into “LLMs for coding are at best marginally useful and produce huge tech debt” vs “LLMs are a game changing productivity boost”. I truly don’t know how to account for the discrepancy, I can imagine many possible explanations. But what really gets my goat is how political this debate is becoming. To the point that the productivity-camp, of which I’m a part,…

I’d love to know whether and to what extent the people for which AI has been a huge boost are those who were already producing slop, and now they have AI that can produce that slop much faster.

Re: ChatGPT Pulse

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Post by henry2023 »

qoez wrote: post #132
neom wrote: post #5

Just connect everything folks, we'll proactively read everything, all the time, and you'll be a 10x human, trust us friends, just connect everything...

And if you don't we're implicitly gonna suggest you'll be outcompeted by people who do connect everything

Data driven living is 10x

Non data driven living is 1x

Therefore data driven beings will outcompete

Same reasoning shows that 3.10 is better than 3.1

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