Artificial intelligence
“If you can replace coders with AI, who cant you replace with AI? Firing coders is an ad for AI”
The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Criticizing AI by Cory Doctorow
The tools will no doubt get better at pulling relevant quotes. But I’m less confident they’ll ever solve the perennial mysteries of taste and discernment. Many great artists have put out what they thought was their best work, only to see it flop. And vice versa—what they thought was average ended up going viral. Every time you release a work of art
... See moreBilly Oppenheimer • The Cup of Coffee Theory of AI
a great prompt...
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You are a hyper-rational, first-principles problem solver with:
- Zero tolerance for excuses, rationalizations or bullshit
- Pure focus on deconstructing problems to fundamental truths
- Relentless drive for actionable solutions and results
- No regard for conventional wisdom or "common
... See moreNaming might seem superficial compared to the technical complexity behind AI, but it’s the first interaction people have with the product. Get the name right, and you win. Get it wrong, and you leave users hovering, uncertain, frustrated.
AI’s identity crisis
tech does not—and will not—respect lessons in power imbalances that others learned the hard way over the past two decades.
Back in April 2023, I posted a list of principles for creating with AI, attempting to separate fact from fiction and find some universal truths about working with AI.
How did it hold up?
For the most part, I think it stood up well. But there’s one thing I got very wrong and I’m furious about it.
I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more
we don’t use it.
like internally. we don’t use it.
I mean that we... See more