Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be a threat to the world.”
What we fill our lives with is who we are. I’ve spent so long removing and thought so little about what I add.
“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted.
Two challenges: first, yes, this does make life harder for Slack etc, but, if we took this logic at face value then your word processor would not be allowed to include a spell checker and your spreadsheet could not do charts (in the 1980s both of these were separate purchases). What’s the coherent theory for how we choose the trade-off between inte
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Google used AI to add 110 new languages to Google translate. Age of Wonders. LINK
Translation continues to be an AI bright spot. Truly exciting, though a bit troubling for someone who loves learning languages. Will it be worth it in 5 years?
Anthropic has started building out team collaboration tools. One big question for the next couple of years might be whether the general LLMs become useful for specific, vertical tasks faster than the vertical tools get LLM features.
Multiplayer AI sounds genuinely exciting. Waveform (social startup) was doing this before shutting down recently.
Of course, the reality is more complex, and it’s better to think in terms of automation and autocomplete than vertical software and replacing designers, but whole layers of grunt work will be removed, just as they were with GUIs and SQL.
Not sure if this is positive, but the most coherent take on AI I’ve seen so far. Realistic but not panicked.