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In my experience, the way you end up doing good in the world has very little to do with how good your initial plan was.
Nate Soares • Dive in
The Death of the Junior Developer
sourcegraph.com
AI adoption and capabilities are distributed bimodally across industries.
Writing-heavy professions like writing, law, software are feeling it first. It doesn't feel that way because other industries are still untouched. That may continue for long or it might not.
It's always calmest before the storm
The computer can look at every word on the page, every phrase, name, quote, and section of text, and show me a "map" of the words and ideas behind which lay the most interesting ideas I might want to know about. Links are no longer lonesome strands precariously holding together a sparsely connected Web, but a booming choir of ephemeral connections... See more
Linus Lee • the stream
Quote reply to the previous tweet that captures most of my thoughts well with lots of examples.
Excerpts:
(On design): When designing productivity software, conceptualize it as a medium first and foremost, and a tool secondarily.
(On chatbots as UI): Its browsing, code interpreter, and Dall-E tools are testament to this upside-down design philosophy: the tools go to work first, only thereafter you see some output.
With the exception of code interpreter, interactions with ChatGPT are largely stateless and transactional. Manipulations are indirect.
this morning i heard @OortCloudAtlas reframe sadness in a way that loosened a knot i didn't know i had in my chest. he said,
"usually we're sad about something difficult that happened but if we look behind that, it's because we wish something good had happened
it's rly a wish… Show more
"usually we're sad about something difficult that happened but if we look behind that, it's because we wish something good had happened”
sadness is one of our most beautiful treasures because it's our compassionate heart expressing itself
I'm going to call it right now. A lot of stuff is going to break on this mission.
By design.
As part of the plan.
Don't get upset. I'm not saying SpaceX plans to fail. I'm pointing out that SpaceX has taken an ultraimportant principle from software... See more
do not assume that your suffering is a proof of your authenticity. do not fall in love with it. renunciation of pleasure can easily turn into pleasure of renunciation itself.