It is 996. Delegating work to agents gives you more time to delegate work to other agents.
Its agents all the way down!
Readit Newsiugtmkbdfil834 commented on In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/yladiz
iugtmkbdfil834 commented on In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/yladiz
You’re thinking about this wrong. Leadership says the gap between human and LLM performance on complex tasks is too big.
The easiest way to close it is to prevent the humans from sleeping.
Admittedly, while stunningly accurate portrayal of an executive mind, it is almost ridiculously hilarious on its face.
iugtmkbdfil834 commented on In the AI gold rush, tech firms are embracing 72-hour weeks bbc.com/news/articles/cvg... · Posted by u/yladiz
This is clearly rage bait, given that it starts with one 120-person company doing this and then tries to pivot into “the tech industry” without any supporting evidence that it’s widespread.
> Each job ad contains a warning: "Please don't join if you're not excited about… working ~70 hrs/week in person
If a company is going to demand long weeks, this is the only way to do it: Be up front and explain it in the job listing so nobody is surprised or wastes time interviewing for a job they’re not compatible with.
You have a point. It does have the same vibe as 'quiet quitting' and other attempts at framing during attempts to RTO.
[removed as I don't wish to tank this guy's career. he knows what he's done though]
My point was a little more subtle. Does the human at the end of the process that presses 'submit'/'publish'/'do this thing' bear a responsibility for verbiage, claims and everything in the paper that bears his name regardless of whether or not he wrote it.
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Can you elaborate? Do you mean that the final version is not approved by the author/s for publication?
That just means you cling to your wrong ideas with the same tenacity as your correct ones.
Someone very famous who predates social media had words for you:
"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
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There are layers to your post that need to be properly disassembled to be properly appreciated.
And I assure you that I do appreciate it.
Deeply.
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<< That just means you cling to your wrong ideas with the same tenacity as your correct ones.
It is bold of you to assume that your ideas are correct and, consequently, my ideas are not.
It is not just bold, but also kinda well, not smart, to assume what my ideas are. For all you know, I believe circles are, in fact, round. Are you going to argue against roundness of circles now?
But to top of it all off with a quotable quote that seems like it should mean something, and yet manages to mean nothing, because, apart from it being -- lets say -- misapplied in general, it is also ridiculously wrong in the context.
How does work for an outright rejection?
We can stop talking now. We have no useful thoughts to exchange.
iugtmkbdfil834 commented on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder blundergoat.com/articles/... · Posted by u/weaksauce
" we will have replaced a lot of other people first."
This is flat out wrong and shows your lack of respect and understanding for other jobs.
Eh. Our understanding is what it has been since early 80s and late 90s, because, in reality, not that much has changed. Oh, sure, technology has moved forward and we no longer print TPS reports in triplicate, but we still have three to four layers of professional checkbox checkers at most big corporates.
And this is just stuff that is mandated by government and not a result of ever evolving bureaucracy.
iugtmkbdfil834 commented on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder blundergoat.com/articles/... · Posted by u/weaksauce
> his use cases for LLMs at the time were summarizing emails in his email client
Sounds just like my manager. Though he never has made a proclamation that this meant developers should be 10x as productive or anything along those lines. On the contrary, when I made a joke about LLMs being able to replace managers before they get anywhere near replacing developers, he nearly hyperventilated. Not because he didn't believe me, but because he did, and already been thinking that exact thought.
My conclusion so far is that if we get LLMs capable of replacing developers, then by extension we will have replaced a lot of other people first. And when people make jokes like "should have gone into a trade, can't replace that with AI" I think they should be a little more introspective; all the people who aspired to be developers but got kicked out by LLMs will be perfectly able to pivot to trades, and the barrier to entry is low. AI is going to be disruptive across the board.
I have half-jokingly talked about getting management, CEOs and board members replaced by LLMs. After all, at the very least, they are actually tested to ensure they do have guardrails to not do anything illegal and to shy away from unethical activities.
iugtmkbdfil834 commented on AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder blundergoat.com/articles/... · Posted by u/weaksauce
Some time back, my manager at the time, who shall remain nameless told the group that having AI is like having 10 people work for you ( he actually had a slightly smaller number, but it was said almost word for word like in the article ) with the expectation being set as: 'you should now be able to do 10x as much'.
Needless to say, he was wrong and gently corrected over the course of time. In his defense, his use cases for LLMs at the time were summarizing emails in his email client.. so..eh.. not exactly much to draw realistic experience from.
I hate to say it, but maybe nvidia CEO is actually right for once. We have a 'new smart' coming to our world. The type of a person that can move between worlds of coding, management, projects and CEOing with relative ease and translate between those worlds.
This is unavoidable. "The dignity of the platform" is a euphemism for moral cowardice masquerading as reason and civility.
Someone like Charlie Kirk - a bigoted troll who used "debate" as a weapon - would have fitted right in here, because he couched his bigotry in a civil manner.
MLK is relevant here, in his description of "moderates":
> more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice.
Some other references:
"Stop glorifying ‘centrism’. It is an insidious bias favoring an unjust status quo": https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/28/centri...
"Can the Center Hold Any Meaning?": https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/political-centr...
"A Critique of Pure Tolerance": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Critique_of_Pure_Tolerance
Status quo and its increasingly damaged institutions are some of the few things that keep events from spiraling out of control.
And I would personally abstain from spitting on Kirk's grave. At the rate things are going, it is hardly a given a newcomer will be willing to talk at all. [edit: overtly antagonizing section removed]