bwhiting2356

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by bwhiting2356 8d ago
science is still early here
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
Whoever is giving a bad coder resources and access will eventually stop
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
> three AirBnBs, two Stripes, and three Dropboxes you want more SaaS?
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
how does this non dev manager have perms to do this
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
when I tell codex to build me a chat app and it uses gpt-4o
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
my bad
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
> but, given that all of their peers have adopted it, there is a serious social cost to opting out. The same was true of smoking. A combination of gov regulation and social stigma have managed to reduce smoking rates.
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
Yes (and many more options). The alternative is having all the construction workers, teachers, janitors continue to labor and pay taxes while the former knowledge workers sit on the sidelines, which would be deeply unfair.
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
in your link, the "true rate" has also not risen since the rise of AI, was higher in 1995
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by bwhiting2356 16d ago
U.S. unemployment rate is steady at ~4% and we are now almost 4 years after the release of ChatGPT. The Jobs Apocalypse seems to be always on the horizon. UBI is being pushed by college educated workers burnt out of white collar work (under
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by bwhiting2356 20d ago
Why not let them have the status boost? This isn't zero sum.
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by bwhiting2356 21d ago
Many CEOs are bad and their businesses will either fail or be bailed out. But the work CEOs do is probably some of the last to get automated - higher order strategy, relationship building, managing people.
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by bwhiting2356 21d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect
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by bwhiting2356 21d ago
Can you show me an example where prices went down (in the long term)?
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by bwhiting2356 21d ago
Increasing housing supply does not decrease home values, because high density housing benefits from network effects/economies of agglomeration. NIMBYs don't object because they think their house will be worth less, they object bec
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
big disagree. Making assumptions about UX from code only without looking was a major problem. (Although vision is still not great. Trying to be patient)
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
We need benchmarks to measure unnecessary bloat. I'm happy it solved the puzzle, did it also ship 500+ lines of no-op?
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
before the industrial revolution, worker revolts were sometimes attempted but almost universally immediately squashed, as workers had even less power
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
what alternative are people proposing?
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
waymos don't remove lanes of traffic, they remove parked cars and parking infrastructure, which is still pretty huge. In many suburbs, parking is the real bottleneck not traffic.
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
A fully automated utopia isn't just going to happen. Even with frontier models, the integrations, the evals, the UX, need a lot of work and someone needs to do it. After I've automated this thing I'll move on to the next task
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by bwhiting2356 1mo ago
> A June 2025 study of Microsoft developers A year ago feels like forever
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
I suspect there's a ceiling on failure rates people are willing to operate under. A diversified investor might still be willing to take high risk/reward bets. But workers can go their whole career producing nothing of value. It be
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
very cool. some feedback: tricky to mouse over the tooltip to click links within the tooltip
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
nice to see humans writing
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
Conversations that go on forever (and spend money forever) makes for a very unhappy customer
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
Could be lack of imagination on my part but I truly can't imaging shipping 1000's of lines of code that I can't understand (beyond low-stakes prototypes). That means there's a ceiling on productivity gains.
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
We should aspire to increase our quality of life, but keep perspective on what are new problems and crises, what are old problems and may still be unsolved. Cheap and abundant housing supply for everyone to live alone is and old problem and
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
You assume the goal is to move out, but it might not be. Extended families have lived together in many parts of the world throughout history. Expectations of living alone are relatively new.
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by bwhiting2356 2mo ago
Biosphere 2 one of their main problems is that growing food was labor intensive, as I've found with my own hydroponics experiments.

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