anant90

The AI-powered "replacement of engineers" that everyone keeps talking about will look less like existing engineers being laid off, and more like reduced hiring of recent engineering graduates. And, as with any large-scale technology trend, it will take a while before we can say we've come out of the innovator/early adopter phase, which we are clearly still in. In my opinion, it's always easier to invent new technology than to get people to change the ways they currently do things.

> And yet, for the people using the app, it won’t look or feel much different.

Yikes. Okay, I know I'm maybe being a bit unfair here, but I'm sorry to say that this is one of the weakest engineering blog posts I've ever read. This seems to be a massive "let's end the craziness and finally pay our tech debt" effort. Good for them, but not something that excites me about working at Facebook.

I wonder how many great marketing opportunities/channels are written off because they seem to deviate from the values of focus or frugality? And inversely, how many distractions are hiding under the cover of unconventional marketing? I genuinely don't know.

I've been trying to give away ideas via a simple Twitter thread that I hope to keep updating over time:

https://twitter.com/anant90/status/1171867648285540352

Incidentally, "a platform for sharing well-researched ideas" is #11 on this list :)

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Was the fall of Rome this embarrassing as well?

The only reason I gave up on Notion sometime last year was that it was mind-numbingly slow. Great product otherwise.

Original Medium post: https://medium.com/waymo/learning-to-drive-beyond-pure-imita...

ArXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.03079