Nic Silver
@nicsilver
Nic Silver
There is a “fundamental mismatch” between the incentives businesses provide their workforce, and the motivators that help individuals and teams succeed.
Gabe Luna-Ostaseski • How to Fix Uber? Give It Away
The programmer Simon Willison has described the training for large language models as “money laundering for copyrighted data,” which I find a useful way to think about the appeal of generative-A.I. programs: they let you engage in something like plagiarism, but there’s no guilt associated with it because it’s not clear even to you that you’re copyi... See more
Vibe marketing at its extreme (though, let’s be honest, no one seems quite sure what it means) runs wild with the ethos of automation.
Instead of marketing rooted in human insight, discernment, differentiation, and business outcomes, vibe marketing favors surface-level resonance. Like Agile marketing before it, vibe marketing values speed
... See moreAI adoption is a UX problem
“A pile of narrow intelligences will never add up to a general intelligence. General intelligence isn’t about the number of abilities, but about the integration between those abilities.”
― Melanie Mitchell, Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans
Sketching is crucial because it allows anyone to turn sketches into production-ready designs. With AI, taste and ideation become the only scarce resources
Guy P. Harrison • 31 genius sci-fi quotes that offer real-world wisdom
One of the most practical ways LLMs can support creativity is by dramatically shortening feedback loops. For example, it reduces the time I take to come up with a good analogy (combinatorial creativity) because I can prompt it to come up with, say, 20 examples of metaphors that describe the concept I want to express. From there I can identify the o... See more
Rhea Purohit • A Science-based Guide to Thinking Creatively—With LLMs
AI coding assistants aren’t just changing how we write software - they’re fundamentally transforming who we are . We’re shifting from creators to orchestrators, from builders to overseers. From engineers to something that looks suspiciously like... managers.