So it’s like paying $20 for a gym subscription but if you had just stayed there 24/7 paying hourly rates the whole month it would’ve cost $1000.

Except, nobody does that. So that’s not a real number.

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People regularly blow through all their Claude Pro tokens every week. It’s relatively easy to do.

The commute only takes 27 minutes if we ignore that everybody else has an LLM- erh, car I mean.

Think you’re clever because your LLM contacts 100 businesses? Imagine 100000 businesses doing the same thing. You’ve just eradicated human support, because nobody’s going to sit through this BS bot future. Good luck when you get auto-flagged for some reason and there’s not a single human to revert or care.

Because nobody was ever fired from choosing Microsoft, and apparently this still holds for AI?

> The researchers successfully tested the robots on phantom heart models that closely mimic a human heart, and on real porcine heart tissue. The robots traveled smoothly and autonomously, even against simulated blood flow.

“In mice” - actually not even.

I think the researchers and I (and probably most other people) have a different definition of “autonomously”.

Ironically on this point, Amazon offers some of the best consumer service in Japan. Returns elsewhere are almost impossible.

> Returns elsewhere are almost impossible.

That however can be solved with laws, like we did in Europe.

> As a parallel, once you learn how to drive you stop walking, as for the primary mode of transportation.

Cars:

- create environments we hate being in

- directly impacts public health

- widens inequality

- makes us productively go faster through the terrible environment we’ve set up

LLMs:

- create markets we hate being in

- directly impacts public health

- widens inequality

- makes us productively put out slop faster through the terrible market we’ve set up

Was this unintended satire?

That’s what we used to call “bullshitting”.

So how do you install 250k km2 of underwater umbrellas, and who stands to get filthy rich from this?

I know what you’re trying to say, but strictly speaking there are many examples of “hard-science” people moving towards and excelling in softer fields, while the opposite is almost never true.

There was a saying where I went to high school: “the language programme students are not better at languages, they’re just worse at math”.

The language students were however better at writing and communications in general. They ended up in sales, marketing, advertising and everywhere else.(all under threat from AI as well.)

But to further the GP question there are lots of examples of people not working in their degree in both directions. The entire computer industry was built by people without a Computer Science degree. Today huge numbers of programmers have no degree at all.

To refer back to the original post about the farrier turned mechanic. Most comments seem to miss the point. Change is coming. You can lean into the change and prosper. Or fight the change and vanish. Those with enough vision, creativity, adaptability will continue to thrive.

Call for a style guide meeting every time you see feedback like this, and write down what everybody agrees on. You’ll never have to do it again after 3-4 of those. Problem solved.

Still not solved? Guess it was really about the commas and not the value delivered anyway, so do whatever you feel like.

That meeting sounds like it would be the most bikeshed-y thing imaginable.

What you actually need to do is have a manager lead assert that it’s happening in a top down way and just run the formatter with the defaults. Let people argue case-by-case on what to change after that.

The point is that you get the (inevitable) bikeshedding done once, everyone feels "involved", and then you have a style guide that is both a style guide and a "crystallized argument" - so when someone wants to change something, they know that dozens of people already signed off on it and do they really want to push against that. (So covering new things is still lower friction...)