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Readit Newsbegueradj commented on The fundamentals still matter jordangoodman.bearblog.de... · Posted by u/zekrom
> Yet, I see people blindly trusting LLM outputs to develop SQL queries, without knowing how to explain or debug them.
The same is true about every other single instruction produced.
> The company that creates an AGI first will win and get the most status.
I doubt it. History has shown that credit for an invention often goes to the person or company with superior marketing skills, rather than to the original creator.
In a couple of centuries, people will sincerely believe that Bill Gates invented software, and Elon Musk invented self-driving cars.
Edit: and it's probably not even about marketing skill, but about being so full of oneself to have biographies printed and making others believe how amazing they are.
I agree.
For example, electric cars were around already in the mid 1800s. But some people believe Elon Musk is the original inventor.
"Life is, of course, just like this: You get only one shot, and it’s up to you to make the most of it by rejecting okay or even pretty good ways to allocate your time or other resources"
Simple counter example: a boxing champion gets the title once, but defends it for years. If he gets the title once and gives up, he will not be remembered because he left no legacy.
"I think quitting is one of my primary superpowers. Success in multiple fields is only possible if you’re willing to quit multiple fields"
Also I disagree. To stick with the boxer example: many boxers come back to fight after retirement, at an age where they can't fight and their body accumulated lots of damage. But why do they come back then ? Because after spending a good part of their life to reach that shot, they realize they don't have time to develop other skills to thrive in life, they can't have multiple successes. That's why they come back to do what it took them time to learn: fighting. It takes time to seriously succeed at anything, even when you are talented you need time and practice.
I disagree with most other statements.
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SQLite has an explicitly stated policy on this: "The intent of the developers is to support SQLite through the year 2050."
https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html
People talk about SQLite's reliability but they should also mention its stability and longevity. It's first-class in both. This is what serious engineering looks like.
Maybe we could say something a bit similar about Express.js and other "boring technologies".
begueradj commented on AI is propping up the US economy bloodinthemachine.com/p/t... · Posted by u/mempko
I have started to notice this as well over the past several months, in-fact, I would say it is orders of magnitude larger than the Crypto bubble and when it bursts will be significantly more impactful. Right now, everything is propped up on the premise the hyperscalers will grow EPS proportionately to their investment and that ROA is being priced in as a best case scenario (hope) in their share price. Maybe its not ROA at all, maybe its simply FOMO, we keep citing this 'AI Race' as if there is some end objective to 'win' drawing parallels to the nuclear arms race that only resulted in massive wasted CAPEX in decaying nukes sitting in unused bunkers since the cold war. (Not to mention it isn't even clear this arms race played a direct factor in the war beside depleting resources) Everyone is happy right now. Execs get stock bonuses, investors get returns, vendors get contracts. Once this is questioned, and history demonstrates it undoubtedly will be, it will cause a cascading collapse. History is a mathematical truth.
"History is a mathematical truth"
No, history is a web of lies written by the winners, just like your daily news.
Suddenly my mind has gone blank…
It should turn grey. Unless you have grey matter deficit.
I think this is a fairly good essay which can be boiled down to "don't do premature optimization" or "don't try to behave like companies much bigger than you".
There are three advantages to this:
1/As a founder, get your hands dirty, even if in the grand scheme of things it's inefficient. You'll get first hand experience and feedback. 2/Avoid the upfront cost of "something that scales", and thus get quicker feedback. 3/Makes you different, very important in the beginning.
"Do things that don't scale" is a way to drive the point home and must not be taken literally...
That's a good point.