Johann Van Tonder

“From this point on, the intelligence of LLMs… will only continue to improve. Human intelligence will not.”

OpenAI’s paper on using AI to debug AI code

"It is wrong to suppose that if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it — a costly myth."

W. Edwards Deming

“Everything is about sex, except sex: sex is about power”

Whether it’s articulated or not, every business is driven by one of two philosophies. A company is either competition-driven or story-driven.

"A key challenge of (LLMs) is that they do not come with a manual! They come with a “Twitter influencer manual” instead, where lots of people online loudly boast about the things they can do with a very low accuracy rate, which is really frustrating..."

Simon Willison, attempting to explain LLM

There is nothing wrong with having financial goals and achieving milestones, but these are simply means to an end. If you believe that your agency exists solely to make money, then you likely are falling short of your potential and cheating your employees of opportunities to realize theirs.

Paul Roetzer

“The fact that these things model language is probably one of the biggest discoveries in history. That you (LLM) can learn language by just predicting the next word … — that’s just shocking to me.”

- Mikhail Belkin, computer scientist at the University of California

“if I have to work, I find it preferable (and less painful) to work intensely for very short hours, then do nothing for the rest of the time assuming doing nothing is really doing nothing), until I recover completely and look forward to a repetition, rather than being subjected to the tedium of Japanese style low-intensity interminable office hours