voncheese

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by voncheese 10d ago
Regarding "how is that a problem" it has nothing to do with the financial obligations (I agree with your take that the company is on the hook either way). It's about being able to learn and improve. In order to learn and imp
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by voncheese 10d ago
> My opinion, anything driven by an algorithm is inherently bad. I really like this simple statement. It gets to the heart of what is bad about social media (at least to me). Its one thing if a site has the same content that I have to
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by voncheese 15d ago
The interesting thing about AI v. other disruptive technologies (like the internet, steam engine, etc), is that AI has been personified both by the manufacturers of it (Anthropic being the most blatant by using a human name for its product)
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by voncheese 15d ago
Yeah this is a good point. They also have a feature that lets you build and mix playlists together with others, not my personal speed but adds to the stickiness.
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by voncheese 16d ago
Hadn't seen this quote before, amazing. Also goes to show how hard it is to predict anything that is a massive change - these levels of changes are so infrequent that we can't rely on priors to predict the future.
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by voncheese 16d ago
Totally agree. They also have some stickiness going for them (at least for me). Now that I've organized my music in Spotify and have my habits in place that deal with the crummy UX, I've gotten numb to the poor UX. Case in point
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by voncheese 1mo ago
I don't disagree with anything said here, but it sure would be nice if Meta (and any other companies building social media applications) focused more on what's right for children, both short and long term, than the math of what is
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by voncheese 2mo ago
If nothing else, the timing is suspect given the attention and press open weight models are getting over the last few weeks. The releases of Kimi and other models is getting open weight models enough attention that the US government, perha
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by voncheese 2mo ago
Yeah came here to say the same thing on the lack of absolute units. Speaking as an older vinyl collector myself, with kids who have also gotten into it...it would surprise me if the total unit numbers were even within 2 orders of magnitude.
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by voncheese 2mo ago
Agreed and it's unlikely to slow down that descent into slop coding until there are some visible issues with it. The market (i.e. companies) are going all in on AI coding because everyone else is doing it and the concern (understandab
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by voncheese 2mo ago
> There's a world of difference between managing a dozen or so individual contributors vs managing senior managers / directors. I agree, but in my opinion, your point about needing to know how things work still holds. It'
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Could this be a good thing - yes Will it be is a different thing though. And if it’s not, who exactly is accountable? With funds and portfolio managers that run them, there’s a clear accountability model (if the fund sucks, the manager los
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Sure, still need to enable access the same info but feels like bucketing the clients into bucket1 = clients that were working just fine before (users and whatever automation they had in place) bucket2 = ai clients that contributed to, if no
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Per a report that came out the other day, the GitHub move to Azure has been slowed down (i.e. I don't think it's done). But maybe you have newer/better info than me
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Yeah, that and Microsoft has been slow to move the infrastructure to something that scales better to handle that load. The more surpassing part is that Microsoft hasn't figured out a way to manage/contain the AI-sourced traffic be
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by voncheese 4mo ago
> Every use of AI for these robs the employee culture of a genuine trust building moment. Spot on. The erosion of communication and relationships between people in the workplace (or even outside it) that AI contributes to is something th
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by voncheese 4mo ago
This is awesome to hear about. The community aspects (both being part of the community and building community) can't be understated. Thanks for sharing!
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by voncheese 4mo ago
> This sounds like an attempt to rationalize the fact that your business isn't that effective, otherwise adding more people would result in making more money. Yes, or that businesses are expecting a slow down in the economy that hin
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by voncheese 4mo ago
This, and the fact that AI is taking people's jobs away without (as far as we can tell) significantly creating new jobs for those people to move to. The job impact is really pissing people off, rightfully so.
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by voncheese 4mo ago
+1 to all of this. The challenge can be staying focused and thinking when the AI assistant is (1) moving very fast and (2) often times doing multiple things at the same time. I know I have struggled to keep up, and fall into the trap of ap
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by voncheese 4mo ago
From reading the text of the article, and the direct quotes, I'm also unclear on why they booed him. My guess is because of what he's done, or at least perceived to have done, in the area of AI. Because what he said (at least to
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by voncheese 4mo ago
New knowledge doesn't necessarily push out old knowledge, and we probably don't have infinite capacity for knowledge. That being said, at least in my experience, the time when new pushes out old is when old is less useful than ne
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Relatable! Or at least making me feel dumb (at times). Things that help me feel smarter are * actually writing more on my own - created a personal blog just to get myself to write more * upleveling my thinking - think more about problems an
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by voncheese 4mo ago
The problem with the current political situation/administration in the US is that there's so much existing conflict of interest going on that anytime the government investigates concerns about conflict of interest, it feels politi
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Unless I'm missing something, the linked article from MIT is about more than graduate students. That article talks about how changes introduced in 2025 are causing taxation on budgets that (as far as I can tell) affect all students. T
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Yeah, conceptually this isn't all that different from new VM SKUs coming out in clouds. The costs and rate of change for AI hardware may be higher, and perhaps enough higher to mess up the math, but conceptually its a model that has b
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by voncheese 4mo ago
Yeah that's a good callout for sure, the spending here is nuts so agree that it's not "just another business that has to price itself right to be competitive". I guess if the time horizons is long, like 20 years, then ma
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by voncheese 4mo ago
As long as Apple and Google put reasonable AI capabilities on device, then software engineers will use those capabilities when it makes sense (the article gives lots of good examples of capabilities that make sense to run locally). As the
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by voncheese 4mo ago
The article is good in that it highlights the need for AI agents/assistants to help with different parts of software development, not just the up front "build me a new widget" part. The author (correctly imo) frames that if
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by voncheese 4mo ago
> My point is that maybe it was intentional, but just bad UX culture. This may be valid, but even if it is someone (or a group of people) at Amazon are violating one of their core leadership principles - Customer Obsession https:/&

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