> take dependencies only on components with longer planning horizons than you
Chasing trends can get you "tool-stranded" — the thing you're depending on goes away (probably because it's no longer the apple of some executive's eye).
Depending on a hot new toolset is asking for trouble (old man yells at clouds); you're better off using tools that were stable 15 years ago
This is not ONLY about "generative AI" but it is not NOT about generative AI.
BeefstickAI, which wants to build generative AI for dogs and doggy daycare providers, raised a $14M series A led by Gullible Ventures and LPSwindler (TechCrunch)
i want to see the whole GOP congressional delegation catapulted into a volcano, starting with that feckless pipe bomber in a track suit enthusiast from Georgia. can a girl ever get her birthday wish 🥺
@merc eh, doubtful that these particular techbros have ever ridden the train in, say, Berlin or Amsterdam, and they're thinking of trains only in the US media portrayal of "dangerous poors"
@merc oh yes, Google maps is designed around the car, with a painstakingly slow adoption of places that have buses and trains, and an even slower (possibly regressive) adoption of informal carpooling etc
@trochee On the one hand I always think it's a good idea when people work on things that directly affect them, as the outcomes are generally better or at least more sensibly designed. On the other, when you look at what these people are targeting when they do work on things that directly affect them you end up being terribly depressed and also feeling a little sorry for how sad their lives are and how much of a mess they're making trying to deal with that.
But it's — as in the case of the LLMs — not the engineers, scientists, researchers, or designers who choose the direction, it's the executives and venture capitalists who decide what problem they're gonna solve.
The "moon landing" great collective effort of the 2010s was to alienate both commerce (crypto, metaverse) and conversation (chatbots, LLMs) from the world of real interpersonal relationships
what does it say about Silicon Valley that they think the most pressing problems facing the American worker and consumer right now are: 1) too many e-mails to read; 2) too many meetings to attend; 3) i wish i had an assistant to plan my travel.
So, is there a patterned fabric you can use to make a shirt that is anti-optimized for modern video stream compression, such that your meetings totally bog down for all participants because everyone’s client-side code is working so hard to encode/decode the wildly demanding images of your shirt every time you shift slightly in your seat?