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Exactly. Agentic LLMs are amazing for people who suffer from chronic akrasia.
Those are exactly the people who shouldn’t use these tools. They’ll be sucked in to whatever bullshit the LLM peddles them and become unable to leave.
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To me it’s more like TikTokification. Nothing on your mind? Open up ChatGPT and we have infinite mindless content to shovel into your brain. It turns proactive writing into purely passive consumption.
This seems right. The classic recipe of enshittification. You start with the a core of tech-adjacent power users, then expand to more regular but curious and creative people, but then to grow further you need to capture the attention and eyeballs of people who don't do any mentally engaged activity on their phone (or desktop, but it's almost always phone), and just want to turn off their brain and scroll. TikTok was…
Initially Id probably spend 1 hr a day conversing with chatgpt, mostly to figure out its capabilities and abilities.
Overtime that 1 hr has to declined to on average 5 mins a day. It has become at best a rubber duck for me, just to get my fingers moving to get thoughts out of my mind lol.
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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…
So - this thing would never be in existance and work without a 20 USD ClaudeAI subscription :)
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…
Google had to make google assistant less useful because of concerns around antitrust and data integration. It's a competitive advantage so they can't use it without opening up their products for more integrations...
In the past, rich people had horses, while ordinary people walked. Today many ordinary people can afford a car. Can afford a tasty food every day. Can afford a sizeable living place. Can afford to wash two times a day with hot water. That's incredible life by medieval standards. Even kings didn't have everything we take for granted now. However some things are not available to us. One of those things is personal assi…
To be fair most people don’t have as complicated a life that they really need a personal assistant. How much would it really save you per day? 30 min? I mean that’s not nothing but it’s not revolutionary either. And of course there is the principal-agent problem so it’s not always a strict upgrade. For example, at my work people managers get admin assistants but most ICs do not, even at the same level. I think it’s f…
From my perspective, the core of OpenAI's current situation can be understood through a few key observations and predictions. First, over $55 billion raised since 2022 has fueled monumental, yet sometimes subtle, leaps in model capability that go far beyond the visible user interface. The real progress isn't just in the chat window, but in the underlying reasoning and multimodal power. This investment is being funnel…
They are already doing that dude with the router... lol wake up. Youre late to the party.
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It sounds like you're very productive without AI or that your perceived gains are pretty small. To me, it's such a stark contrast that asking how I measure it is like asking me to objectively verify that a car is faster than walking.
“I'm eating fewer calories yet keep putting on weight.” There's a reason self-reported measures are questioned: they have been wildly off in different domains. Objectively verifying that a car is faster than walking is easy. When it's not easy to objectively prove something, then there are a lot that could go wrong, including the disagreements on the definition of what's being measured.
Again, people who were already highly productive without AI won't understand how profound the increase is.
I see OpenAI is entering the phase of building peripheral products no one asked for. Another widget here and there. In my experience, when a company stops innovating, this usually happens. Time for OpenAI to spend 30 years being a trillon dollar company and delivering 0 innovations akin to Google.
Googles marginal ROIC is horrific. Its average ROIC in the aggregate on the other hand looks nice, because most of its returns are from projects taken 10+ years ago.
I'm immediately thinking of all the ways this could potentially affect people in negative ways. - People who treat ChatGPT as a romantic interest will be far more hooked as it "initiates" conversations instead of just responding. It's not healthy to relate personally to a thing that has no real feelings or thoughts of its own. Mental health directly correlates to living in truth - that's the base axiom behind cogniti…
I agree wholeheartedly. Unfortunately I think you and I are part of maybe 5%-10% of the population that would value truth and reality over what's most convenient, available, pleasant, and self-affirming. Society was already spiraling fast and I don't see any path forward except acceleration into fractured reality.