What kind of apologist bullshit is this?

Dialectical materialism?

We really gonna assign blame to the end products of the system instead of interrogating the material conditions that led to them? Who is the Marxist here?

I think you mean…

(OpenAI dev team)

This is what all the big promises have amounted to for most people: cars that are more and more expensive, devoid of physical controls which makes vehicles less safe, and constantly monitoring everything you do with the option for manufacturers to change whatever they want in your vehicle, including sticking a Spider-Man ad in front of you and presenting it as a fun “surprise.”

Reminds me of:

Science fiction’s superpower isn’t thinking up new technologies – it’s thinking up new social arrangements for technology. What the gadget does is nowhere near as important as who the gadget does it for and who it does it to. Your car can use a cutting-edge computer vision system to alert you when you’re drifting out of your lane – or it can use that same system to narc you out to your insurer so they can raise your premiums by $10 that month to punish you for inattentive driving. Same gadget, different social arrangement.

I’ve been watching Doctorow build this set over the past few years, and Jon Stewart is the perfect host for it. This is a master class. The only thing missing is that he didn’t get to mention the price of the Kentuckey Derby winner’s semen.

That’s “midsize”? The fuck?

Age alone doesn’t tell you much about a system’s quality. Well-maintained systems can stay alive for decades and achieve a defect rate that a greenfield effort could only dream of.

We have a tendency to use “legacy” as an insult, but software tends to only stick around for decades if it’s so valuable that it’s hard to replace.

Legacy (aka This Is Not a Rails Shop) - Chad Fowler

Really? In front of my Elinor Ostrom poster?

Eh, I don’t think it’s hypocritical to contribute to a commons and then get mad when someone comes along and tries to use the commons to undermine the commons.

Like yes, the commons is there to be used… but not to kill the commons.

https://www.citationneeded.news/free-and-open-access-in-the-age-of-generative-ai/

I wouldn’t say Kagi has “moved to become an AI company”.

They host some open weight models, which you can use with your subscription (which hasn’t increased in price or dropped features since they added AI access), but you’re not forced to use AI ever, and they’re not collecting your searches or prompts to feed into training.

They’ve taken a pretty skeptical stance on AI from the start. You can disable AI features completely, so you don’t even accidentally use them. But even if you leave them enabled, you have to opt into invoking AI by ending your query with a question mark.

Edit: Also, they downrank content that has been flagged as AI generated: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/slopstop.html

Not even. Your job isn’t to protect prod, it’s to take the blame when prod goes down.

Well, “should you”? Only you can decide that. You only get the one life, you know. It would suck to spend it only doing things because they’re “prudent”.

It seems like you’re asking for market predictions here, based on the AI and outsourcing aspects. Nobody knows what the future holds. But we can look at the past and present.

Historically, companies — both individually, and the industry as a whole — tend to oscillate between:

• “oh my god, knowledgeable people are so expensive, I don’t need someone with deep understanding, I just need more output” and
• ”oh fuck, I am drowning in output that nobody understands, I desperately need knowledgeable people”

For all the AI corpos’ talk about a revolutionary change in the way we think about work and employment, it all looks very familiar right now.

Historically, these moments, where everyone seems to agree that they want more hands on keyboards rather than more brains on call… tend to be the worst time to freelance.

It’s a race to the bottom, and you’ll probably be so busy spinning plates that you won’t be able to make any long-term strategic decisions about what you wanna learn and do next.

If you can, I’d look for a stable corpo job that you can firewall to 9-5, and keep your options open. Watch the market, and — more importantly — find something that you like, so you don’t have to ask internet strangers what to do with your life again.

They’re leaving out two big pieces of the story:

1. Apple is switching to CXMT, whose IPO just made them China’s most valuable company.
2. Open weight models are putting a damper on centralized frontier models, making it look like efficient local inference rather than next-gen training may be the winning investment. And what do you need for efficient local inference? Why, a heterogenous SoC architecture with unified memory. And what has Apple bet their entire product line on, for the past 6 years? Exactly that!

Oh hey, I just watched something that was full of good info about this! https://youtube.com/watch?v=-Lv7jmdqTUU

ADHD context, but most of it is universal. I hope there’s something useful in there for you!

Yup. At this point, the only sensible model is harm reduction. I’m not happy about where we are, but we do need to be realistic about it.

(Embrace the chaos of my picks)

Gimme More (SID)

Mad World

Ocarina of Time as a Prog Rock Album

Take Me to Snurch

Gangnam Style

AI basically is lossy compression.

Jokes on you, I just did a load of laundry this morning.

After forgetting it in the washer last night and having to re-run it.

And I actually brought it down to the laundry room the day before that.

And I put it all in a hamper the day before that.

Okay what I’m saying is, I have a system and it apparently works eventually so nyah.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=kvlrnc7hlQI

DEMOCRATS DIVIDED OVER ISRAELI CONDUCT

Ah, so support must be like 50/50, huh?

Israel’s favorability rating among Democrats fell from 59% in 2018 to 22% in May, according to Reuters/Ipsos polling.

Hm. Not that divided, eh?