A lot of people claimed that LLMs were making them 10x more productive, right? So I guess we should expect some pretty amazing things pretty soon. Can't wait to see what they all come up with.
@misc it’s a calculator app that I’m going to make into a customer facing ever later. You put in info related to the job and it gives your the appropriate price. It’s for my freelance work
@misc I anticipate the productivity gains in LLMs will not lead to increased output, but rather a condensing of already required output into smaller time frames, leaving more time for social activities in a day-to-day scenario.
@misc I would draw a parallel to how household appliances in the 1950s were supposed to revolutionize housework. Are we really doing 5 or 10 times the housework, or are we merely having more time for other activities?
@hrbrmstr It's really a shame. And makes me wonder why Substack, for all its flaws, including specifically an ideological laissez faire approach to content, doesn't seem overrun in the same way? Maybe they are and it's just less exposed, because you generally only see things you're subscribed to, but Medium has more algorithmic recommendations?
@misc I think part of it is that some aggregators view substack as a competitor (i.e., don't want to surface any content from it).
It's so bad on Medium that folks are trying to do the attached to prove content is genuine, (but the ones who use AI are just copy/paste-ing that into theirs too).
@misc@hrbrmstr Jesse, I’ve noticed the same effect: Medium just seems filled with dreck, but I'm liking who I follow on Substack, amd keep finding new high-quality content to follow on Substack. Can't explain it, but can confirm it.
@misc I’m seeing a lot more spam in FB groups, LinkedIn inmail from strangers offering lead gen or fitness services. And general spam in my email (including scammers trying to look like their are google that google didn’t detect as spam).
I’ve seen reports of a lot more spam/scam “books” in services like Kindle Unlimitted but I stopped using that years ago so haven’t confirmed - but actual authors I know who write books without AI have complained about the increase in scams
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