AI
In 2013, the Chicago Sun-Times fired all 28 of its staff photographers. Every single one. Including John H. White, who had won a Pulitzer Prize.
The plan was simple. Reporters would shoot their own photos using iPhones. The technology had gotten good enough. The cameras were in everyone’s pockets. Why pay 28 salaries for something the existing staff
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“Why does this work? Because if you can say it clearly, you can build it clearly. The language forces you to think in the right shapes. And now you have a tool for more than just this dam. For every dam you’ll ever build.”
I went in sure I was going to respectfully disagree…but that proved hard once the thesis was laid out
“The real world is all edge cases, all the time.”