Good companies see employees as partners, make sure incentives are aligned, and use transparency to empower their employees to make better choices with full awareness of the entire business. It's amazing how much more productive an employee can be if they believe in the missions, understand exactly how their work can benefit themselves, and have genuine trust that their employer has their back.
I'm starting to use it quite heavily and extremely productively for non R&D and non SWE work. It has transformed one aspect of my business, and that won't change -- this type of usage is highly productive, and only likely to grow.
The latest crop of models are extremely capable at classic (physics based) engineering tasks. Their incredible math ability as well as agent use allows them to plow through engineering problems, and they do it with knowledge that I have only heard grey beards talk about. Humans run through designs doing 1st order approximations and intuitive assumptions, but the models can just breeze through 4th order approximations on everything.
They used to not be able to read schematics, but now they can, as well as generate and simulate. They also have made incredible inroads into CAD and reading mechanical diagrams.
Right now I can say with very high confidence that there isn't a gap in ability so much as a gap in awareness of their abilities. On top of that the next round of models has apparently made strides in all these areas too.
They should remove all padding and safety equipment, and institute severe penalties for any contact that could cause injury. The sport would probably become sane, but people like the violence, so this isn't going to happen.
~60% of rugby league players in one study were found to have CTE [0]. I bring this up because they don't wear pads, and I often hear (ETA: and even saw another commenter here post) that this makes them play safer (which might be true, but not to a meaningful degree; they still are not "safe").
FWIW, the NFL seemingly increasingly penalizes and expands the definition of unsafe hits every year. If people just liked the violence, BKB or power slap would be much more popular than they are.
"Safe" is a strawman, and "not to a meaningful degree" is simply a lie. Fewer serious injuries is meaningful.
That being said, rugby is a different game. Football for the most effected players is one crushing impact per down, and a lot of waiting around and planning. Without helmets, half of the players would be knocked out cold. Rugby is not like that.
Every down in football is basically like a sumo tachi-ai (initial charge.) It's absurdly stressful without a helmet to do it even once a day between professionals. People would have to stop leading with their heads.
> If people just liked the violence
This is irrelevant. I love gridiron football, I think it's the best team sport ever invented, especially for spectators. I don't just like the violence, I like the violence. I have to accept the fact that I might not like it as much if people weren't leading with their heads. It's also the smartest game in my opinion, and I'm amused by upper middle-class people in the US thinking that "soccer" is classy (because Europe) when all the players are so much dumber (let's talk about heading; that ball is soft, too.)
American football is an atrocity, though. Even at the professional level, it doesn't pay enough for how bad it hurts you (and careers are shortest for the people who see the most impacts.) At the college level, forget it.
Not my experience at all. As part of my job, I’ve used takeout to export the data from hundreds of accounts, with total sizes ranging from <1GB to >500GB, without any issues. I genuinely can’t remember a time that it has failed.
It does beg the question, though: what is creativity?
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