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I don’t understand what this title is saying, feels a bit circular. You could say this about so many jobs that are or are not being replaced by AI.

Do LLMs “deskill” us in general? I suspect we are just replacing old skills with new skills.

Does anyone else think the angry version reads like AI? “Here’s what you just did”

Yes, keep things as simple as possible. Keep asking questions; don't solve reach for complex solutions unless you've confidently drilled down on the problem

> An alternate hypothesis: if you tried to sell literal garbage on Amazon, poor reviews and a high return rate will be visible in the product itself.

Yeah but at the time when I buy it it's gonna have thousands of 5 star reviews, and the images themselves will be the shiniest most beautiful garbage ever seen by mankind.

Yeah, that ought to boost the IPO.

This was my first impression as well. The layout options just didn’t work on mobile

True! Between improving training data and figuring out how to provide better context to the LLM, there will be rapid improvement within a year

I have always wondered at the lowest level how a camera captures and processes photos. Much appreciated post.

I just experienced this and was wondering why it was happening!

Thanks for the link. So basically, you are at a private game and if everyone has their phones out (and you are also an unsuspecting idiot), you are screwed.

Crazy that there is a USB port exposed outside the machine.

“An X-ray poker machine was employed to read facedown cards and a rigged card-shuffling machine was also used in the plot, prosecutors say.”

Would love to know more about such a machine, if anyone has any insight. Are these developed underground? How expensive could they be?

If it can efficiently take in a deck of cards and deterministically return a rigged deck in a reasonable amount of time, I would be fascinated at how they solved that problem.

They'll be working on it soon: https://x.com/mitchellh/status/1964826929326153898

Should we feel happy solving our problems with our fancy tools? Are our tools and in-depth knowledge a distraction to inflate our egos, or a sign of self-respect and passion?

I’m inclined to believe the latter. Our fancy tools provide so much more utility beyond keeping us happy. Our tools teach us new things and stretch our curiosity and creativity. Our happiness stretches us to solve more problems and ask better questions.

This group is much more tangible for me. Instead of trusting the status quo, this group fears it.

I think strengths are more difficult to define than weaknesses, because they are very context dependent. “Speed” may be useful in certain situations, but in many cases “speed” can be harmful in more ways than just overlooking details. You miss out on opportunities to learn, to ask for help, to become better at thinking critically as a software engineer.

What the idea of “strengths being weaknesses” reflects is how much we identify with our present state of ability. It seems like we get it backwards. We ask our jobs to fit us as people, rather than how we as individuals can become best for the job.

Can’t believe it has edit access, lol

So real. Most valuable component of this setup

lol. i’ll dunk on Apple as much as i’ll dunk on any other OS, but they wouldn’t be as praised for security if they had to manage the infrastructure and users that Windows supports