LLMs are Dissolving & Creating Work | #288
Fractional work = autonomy + community + equity.
There has to be a middle-ground, one which not just permits, but incentivizes pursuits outside of existing responsibilities. Programs to train divergent thinking and sharpen Swiss Army Knife skills.
There has to be a middle-ground, one which not just permits, but incentivizes pursuits outside of existing responsibilities. Programs to train divergent thinking and sharpen Swiss Army Knife skills.
Victoria Buchanan • Vol.17: Victoria Buchanan: Surrealism, World Saving Luxury + Fractional Work
Perhaps even more than their late-nineteenth-century equivalents, these workers today—whose daily tasks involve knowledge, design and creativity—experience a world that can be reprogrammed and remade, and so they naturally extend these ways of thinking to the society around them. While their relative privilege cuts them off from others, the nature
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
The need for better AI or LLM-specific infrastructure, along with the host of problems that come with non-deterministic of LLMs, means that there’s more software work ahead of us, not less. Abstraction layers like LLMs create more possibilities and thus, more work.
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure.
A great example of this is frontend... See more
Is this a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure.
A great example of this is frontend... See more
Shortwave — rajhesh.panchanadhan@gmail.com [Gmail alternative]
The lived experience of a person working with an anonymous, algorithmic, and inscrutable interface is one demonstration of the way automation doesn’t so much replace work as reconfigure its content, conditions, and geography.
Jenny Odell • Saving Time
But as Al takes on more complex, specialized tasks, the ability to synthesize information from different fields becomes crucial.
The goal is to become M-shaped, combining mastery across multiple fields with strong business and leadership skills. For exam-ple, a product manager might also become an online marketer and video editor. A finance manager
... See moreThe problem that Kevin Kelly and Scott Adams exemplify is: we have industrial notions of boundedness around skill sets. When you ask most people what they do, they fall into a fairly small number of buckets, most of which are classes at a University: I’m a marketer, I’m a designer, I’m a software engineer.
That’s typically how people describe their ... See more
That’s typically how people describe their ... See more