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The problem, you see, is that there could be a future where they don't need junior associates anymore.
Increasingly, they need only senior associates, who (a) describe the tasks to be done; i.e., create the prompts, and (b) review the resulting work for accuracy and correctness. The high-end LLMs do so well with tasks normally fielded by junior asso
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Gene, as an accomplished and senior author, is delighted with his productivity gains with his LLM of choice, Claude Opus. He showed me a big writing project that he'd just finished, in which he had spent easily 45+ minutes crafting the prompt, refining it until he had a 7500-word narrative that could serve as a starting point for rewriting, editing
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One hypothesis on why social networks tend to lose heat at scale is that this type of old money can't be cleared out, and new money loses the incentive to play the game.
Eugene Wei • Status as a Service (StaaS) — Remains of the Day
“The language of the rulers” - Ha-Joon Chang . . . . . . . #politics #philosophy #economics #rulers
instagram.comI think a lot of kids are in that situation where you know ultimately they're just not being given the codes.
They have, they have unlimited curiosity, but really are not being given the codes.
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
working at a big company is basically an accelerated course in how power actually works. once you see the sheer level of inefficiency, rent-seeking, & arbitrary decision-making, it kind of breaks all illusions about big companies.
the best part is realizing that half the people in charge have no clue what they’re doing but just sound confident. on... See more
signüllx.comlike, you know, no reference point to go off of, that’s ego system. That’s “I am the synthesizer; therefore, you consume me and I give purpose to your identity.” Ecosystem is “I’m showing you every line that I pulled from, and I’m giving you access to every single person.”
Baukunst • This Could Still Be a Movement: Why Mars Needs a Creative Director
Market forces are nudging everyone towards having senior writers who are also good prompt engineers: An arrangement that meets all of their needs faster and cheaper than hiring junior humans.