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Show, Don’t Tell: A Llama PM's guide to writing GenAI evals - Daniel D. McKinnon
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AI hype cycle, organizational mania, early-adopter gap, and why bad practices persist when they’re culturally fashionable.
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So we are in that phase absolutely right now where separate from any utility that the technology is offering, there's just this social mania of everything has to be this right now. I don't know when that fever will break. I think certainly events like the Amazon event will help with that.
And I do think that at some point someone is going to say,
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Comparing AI to the printing press: democratizing creation, shifting skilled work from tedious tasks to higher‑level creative thinking.
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I think the thing that's come closest for me is the printing press. And so if you look at Europe in the mid-1400s, literacy was actually very low. There was sub 1% of the population, it was scribes, that they were the ones that did all the writing. They were the ones that did all the reading. They were employed by lords and kings that often were
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Option 3: take a breath. Become conscious of the anxiety this sort of message stirs in you. Consider the possibility that building the next phase of your career around the fear of getting left behind might be a really bad basis for producing the kind of work people will want to pay you for – not to mention (and not unrelatedly) a rather grim way to... See more
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