AI
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
It's becoming increasingly evident that in many circles, AI is not perceived as merely a technology, but as "something else" entirely. This misconception is exemplified by the recurring debate: "Humans vs AI." To illustrate the absurdity of this framing, let's replace "AI" with "technology":
"Humans vs... See more
Cristóbal Valenzuelax.comAI is the new plastic
notion.so
There is beauty to naturally occurring material… and thought
Hill-Making vs Hill-Climbing
kk.org
I screenshotted this because it will seem so funny a couple years from now. Though to be fair it seems pretty funny already. https://t.co/qMwifbOLuz
AI follows auditability
grantslatton.com
It's far easier to automate tasks than it is to automate jobs. Tasks (ex: creating a status report) tend to be specific, self-contained and legible in nature. They can be seen as discrete and atomic units of work. In contrast, jobs tend to be broad webs that span a multitude of diverse tasks. These webs are threaded together with amorphous things... See more
Waqasx.com
We have to take the LLMs to school.
When you open any textbook, you'll see three major types of information:
1. Background information / exposition. The meat of the textbook that explains concepts. As you attend over it, your brain is training on that data. This is equivalent to pretraining,... See more
I’d be surprised if, in a decade, “designer” and “engineer” roles are as common as they are today
With widespread AI use, it’s more likely the relevant specializations would re-organize around business concerns (like sales/marketing vs R&D vs operations), rather than around tooling differences (like Figma vs IDE vs... See more
Andricx.com