No Coding Before 10am
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No Coding Before 10am
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#2> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost.
This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
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#3> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost. This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
Any human in the loop will be a bottleneck in comparison to AI performance.
If we take that to its logical conclusion, I think we can answer that question.
Getting rid of humans, unfortunately, also takes away their earnings and therefore their ability to purchase whatever product you are developing. The ultra rich can only purchase your product so often - hence better make it a subscription model.
So there is pressure on purchasing power versus earnings. Interesting to see what happens and why.
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#4> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost. This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
I think I finally understand why the LLM craze is like catnip to management types - they think they've found a cheat code to workaround the mythical man-month
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#5> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost. This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
Am i misunderstanding? spending more tokens certainly is not optimizing for compute cost. It's the opposite
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#6> What would your team’s tenets look like? I’d genuinely love to hear.
My team is incredibly clueless and complacent. I can't even get them to use TypeScript or to migrate from Yarn v1.
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#7This is easy, no need for AI, just join any public servant IT organisation, regardless of the country. :)
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#8lol. my personal preference has always to do ALL the coding as early as possible. i get progressively dumber as the day wears on, seems sad to waste the prime hours on meetings and other more human things.
I don't see how that would change if you accept the premise that code is now a commodity.
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#9> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost. This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
Maybe it could have been written slightly clearer, but I think the intended meaning is, "If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck should be human decision-making time, not agent compute time."
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#10> If 10x more tokens saves a day, spend the tokens. The bottleneck is human decision-making time, not compute cost. This seems entirely backwards. Why spend money to optimize something that _isn't_ the bottleneck?
I think I finally understand why the LLM craze is like catnip to management types - they think they've found a cheat code to workaround the mythical man-month
https://x.com/a16z/status/2018418113952555445
For my whole life in technology, there was this thing called the Mythical Man Month: nine women cannot have a baby in a month. If you're Google, you can't just put a thousand software engineers on a product and wipe out a startup because you can only... build that product with seven or eight people. Once they've figured it out, they've got that lead.
That's not true with AI. If you have data and you have enough GPUs, you can solve almost any problem. It is magic. You can throw money at the problem. We've never had that in tech.