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by anthuswilliams 4d ago
This cannot be the case. The author repeatedly propounds his worry that the AI is taking work from humans. But if the promptor is carefully prompting it, it's not a case of an AI obviating humans; it's a scammer pitching bullshit
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by anthuswilliams 4d ago
It says in the tweet, $1 = 1000 tokens. It is EXTREMELY far fetched; few people who have used LLMs in any capacity would be able to achieve this outcome, let alone a self directed agent. I've developed in this space. My skepticism is b
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by anthuswilliams 5d ago
For all his outrage, the author credulously swallows the most toxic and implausible claim iLands is making: the idea that an AI agent, threatened with the pain of "Deep Rest", independently considered a potential career for itself
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by anthuswilliams 1mo ago
The fact that LLMs (or their client-side harnesses, at any rate) have improved substantially in the last year does not, ipso facto, mean they will continue doing so forever. Nor does it imply, even if they do keep improving, that they will
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by anthuswilliams 2mo ago
Allow me to correct the headline for you: > Multi-millionaire Netflix executive, known for profanity-laden tirades and shotgunning beers at corporate events, claims without evidence he was terminated for medically sanctioned ketamine use
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by anthuswilliams 2mo ago
I should think the point was obvious. It's not a percentage of behavior of a single participant, it's in aggregate. The point is 90% of lobbyists are not doing anything untoward.
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by anthuswilliams 2mo ago
That's literally what 90% of lobbying is. Powerpoint presentations to Congressional staffers, econometrics research publications, policy panels and conferences, and so on. Not everything is campaign donations and super PACs.
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by anthuswilliams 2mo ago
I had the same thought, but it appears they are explicitly asking about poets, not just literary figures and authors. Poe seems like an obvious candidate no one listed.
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by anthuswilliams 2mo ago
Why not? There are perfectly pro-social reasons a person might ask such a question. And a bio-terrorist would have many other avenues to answer these questions. The concept of a bioweapon attack is commonly cited but in fact there are many
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by anthuswilliams 2mo ago
It's better to read such essays as fables rather than comprehensive world models. It causes you to look at social and organizational structures in a new and (putatively) helpful way. It should be complementary to the rest of the framew
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by anthuswilliams 3mo ago
You still have a DRI. In factories this would be a foreman; in software teams this could be a team lead or product owner or whatever. Their job is to apply the statistical process controls and the gemba walk, to help the team see the proble
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by anthuswilliams 3mo ago
I have been championing this mindset since well before LLMs. It is an admittedly controversial opinion, but one I hold strongly. Code reviews are a productivity tax. No truly effective team would rely on them. The fact that so many software
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by anthuswilliams 3mo ago
I read the comment as arguing that leadership is necessary, not that it is sufficient. That is, that no amount of governance could have prevented the change in the price of the hot dog; only the leader could.
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by anthuswilliams 3mo ago
Enterprise agreements are billed at the API rate (albeit sometimes with committed spend discounts). There is no equivalent of the Max subscription in this context.
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by anthuswilliams 4mo ago
I'd also add that top-heavy engineering organizations are sometimes incapable of delivering anything useful because everyone wants to work on the hard problems, establish the frameworks, define the processes, and so on, and no one want
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by anthuswilliams 5mo ago
At 90 seconds per resume, that would take up a full 8 hour day. Having gone through this myself, I don't think it's possible to do this much faster than that, even if you have an ATS that optimizes for that workflow. I often found
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by anthuswilliams 5mo ago
That sort of messaging has been done for decades with business process orchestration companies, RPA vendors, etc. All the way back to the original business software vendors like Lotus and Excel. It's only big LLM labs that adopt this t
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by anthuswilliams 5mo ago
The issue is not that they are generic. You could still be generic with phraseology that actually acknowledged the contributions and ownership involved in the jobs being done. For example, you could write e.g. "monitor for outages&quot
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by anthuswilliams 5mo ago
Without commenting on the product itself (I haven't tried it), the marketing copy around this release commits the same sins I have seen from Anthropic and Grok and all the rest of them. I'm so tired of seeing these companies trivi
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by anthuswilliams 5mo ago
> Why is it always our burden to learn and improve That's what the 400k/yr is for.
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by anthuswilliams 5mo ago
I literally _just_ put up an announcement on our internal Slack of a tool I had spent a few weeks trying to get right. Strange to post the announcement and, literally the same day, see a better, publicly available toolkit to do enable that
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by anthuswilliams 6mo ago
There is something up with your hiring system. I shared this post with a friend who applied, and they got an instant rejection. This is a data engineer with 4+ years experience in your stack and a degree in nuclear engineering to boot. Mayb
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by anthuswilliams 6mo ago
Claude Cowork (part of the Desktop app) is claude code, running inside a VM. Helpful writeup here: https://pvieito.com/2026/01/inside-claude-cowork (I am not the author)
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by anthuswilliams 6mo ago
Summary of article: in an uncertain job market, some young people are going into blue collar trades. Others are starting startups. Others are powering through. Journalist says some words about "AI" being the cause of all this unce
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by anthuswilliams 7mo ago
This argument was specifically about LLMs, not about other techniques (RL, multi-armed bandit, etc) that might be better leveraged to accomplish this type of goal. An LLM which makes a tool call to a function called `ride_bike`, where that
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by anthuswilliams 7mo ago
Maybe. Or maybe services will switch to charging per API call or whatever instead of monthly or per-seat. Who can predict the future? I mean, services _could_ make it harder to use LLMs to interact with them, but if agents are popular enoug
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by anthuswilliams 7mo ago
I'm very much looking forward to this shift. It is SO MUCH more pro-consumer than the existing SaaS model. Right now every app feels like a walled garden, with broken UX, constant redesigns, enormous amounts of telemetry and user manip
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by anthuswilliams 7mo ago
> What is in the nature of bike-riding that cannot be reduced to text? You're asking someone to answer this question in a text forum. This is not quite the gotcha you think it is. The distinction between "knowing" and &quo
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by anthuswilliams 9mo ago
I'm not sure I understand your complaint. Is it that he misuses the term Pascal's Wager? Or more generally that he doesn't extend enough credibility to the ideas in AI 2027?
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by anthuswilliams 9mo ago
The claim about who subsidizes who was always hyperbole, I'll grant you that. I included the statement to make the point that this is the phenomenon people are referring to when they make that statement. I happen to think there is vali

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