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> It’s so hard to finish an idea that is not yours and is just suggested by AI Yes! And that's because you can't really delegate ownership/authorship to AI (at today's capability levels). Coding agents might have been RL'd out the wazoo to write code to solve well defined problems, but given a situation the onus of making sense of the ambiguity and identifying the problem -- and even crafting a skeleton for an accept…
Might be a good candidate for a pi extension.
I don't get the second brain thing. I don't keep a second brain, I just read and think a lot. I once did a physics masters and, when asked how to make steady progress, one of the professors (who had published with Paul Dirac no less) made the comment "well, my secret is that I think about physics all the time" I started practicing this for the stuff I'm interested in ... and the result is that I generate a lot of ide…
While it doesn't necessarily have anything to do with AI, the trend of glue AI onto everything certainly didn't help.
For you guys' 5 min of entertainment: https://youtu.be/6NukGtwJb7Y?t=256
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Delete the comments: I’ve gone on a tear with these recently because they’re nothing but trouble. The absolute least worst outcome is they chew up your token budget. But what tends to happen, and this is much more serious, is they poison future work and make further modification of the codebase more burdensome and error prone.
I completely block all LLM comments via pi extension, it makes using them significantly more enjoyable. If the LLM wants to add a comment it must ASK me explicitly to do so. Seeing LLM comments in other peoples code is very upsetting because theres just so much meaningless noise.
I don't get the second brain thing. I don't keep a second brain, I just read and think a lot. I once did a physics masters and, when asked how to make steady progress, one of the professors (who had published with Paul Dirac no less) made the comment "well, my secret is that I think about physics all the time" I started practicing this for the stuff I'm interested in ... and the result is that I generate a lot of ide…
There seems to be two schools of thought for "second brain" stuff: 1. Those who kind of semi-obsessively write down every little thought, semi-obsessively catalogue everything, etc. 2. Those who use the idea of "writing helps you think", where the second brain functions in support of this Personally I find 2 quite valuable, and although I could "think about programming all the time" (or one of my other interests), I…
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We didn't automate muscles generally, only specifically. The leverage those specific situations have is so high it's worth it. Same with thinking, it's very far from automated generally. Maybe one day we'll have humanoid robots as generally physically capable, and AI as generally mentally capable, but that's a long way off. Until then there's still emmense value for humans in between the high-leverage areas, and even…
When you say a long way off, how far are you thinking, especially with self improvement on the horizon? My bet is 3 or 4 years before the rocket really takes off, and then we start seeing capabilities improve incredibly quickly.
I don't get the second brain thing. I don't keep a second brain, I just read and think a lot. I once did a physics masters and, when asked how to make steady progress, one of the professors (who had published with Paul Dirac no less) made the comment "well, my secret is that I think about physics all the time" I started practicing this for the stuff I'm interested in ... and the result is that I generate a lot of ide…
Eventually I’m looking at a whole page of good ideas, and some pattern jumps out at me. I attribute many of my best ideas to this process. Writing lets you work beyond the limits of your own brain, especially the constraints of working memory.
I think that is the primary value in a “second brain” - externalizing your thoughts and reasoning makes them stronger - though the productivity community may use the term to mean some other thing.
The title is editorialized. It is "Keep AI Out of Your (Obsidian) Vault". For the Original title, I wish they added the qualifier "generative" for AI. You may well use e.g. embeddings to semantically search through your notes, and there are only gains in that. Having an AI write notes for you is however of course completely pointless. The act of writing notes is 80% of the reward.
> Having an AI write notes for you is however of course completely pointless. The act of writing notes is 80% of the reward. The exception is transcriptions and summaries of transcriptions for things like lectures; I find those useful even when I know writing them myself would be better.
Of course the problem with this for me (I'm a state employee) is that said transcript is a public record.