That’s astute. I’ve increasingly felt over the last few months that people just don’t particularly value quality. The bar for most people is much lower than professionals (in whatever domain).
Yeah, this is my experience too, trading up every couple of years (though sometimes I've taken a sideways or slight downwards step to broaden my experience or work for somewhere that I thought was interesting or worthwhile). I've had a couple of longish spells at companies, 7 or 8 years, and in both those cases I left because my pay wasn't keeping pace with the market or my growing responsibilities and management wouldn't budge. The irony being that at those places i was at my most valuable because of my institutional and political knowledge. I think companies greatly undervalue the benefits of long term employees.
This is my experience too, it has got a bit better but nowhere near as quickly as other domains I deal with. I can usually guide the LLM to a decent solution but there's a lot of hand holding and I'm often left wondering if it wouldn't have been quicker for me to just get stuck in and do it the old fashioned way. Maybe because geospatial stuff is pretty niche so is under-represented in the training data relative to yr standard CRUD apps and React front ends which are ten-a-penny?
>But if it does, oh well.
I'm glad our ancestors didn't take that line of reasoning we'd still be feudal serfs. "The lord has come and taken all our grain again? Oh well, at least I've been useful to him."
If our ancestors worried more about technology obsoleting human labor we'd still be subsistence farmers. Priorizing usefulness is why we're rich today.
I've played the campaign a few times now (10+) and my advice is
1. it's much better/ more manageable at 3 players unless everyone is already pretty experienced.
2. Try to play the first two acts in quick succession then the third maybe a week later once the dust has settled.
As they say in scandinavia, there's no bad weather only bad clothes.
Suit up and brace yourself is all I can say. We should all be concerned in protecting our communities from the adjustment. Not in an doomerist way but you know prepare to weather a storm. I think it will be worse than 2008. But I also think that the next boom will be very very interesting and with a lot of great opportunities to advance humanity and technology.
The next turn of the spiral will always be higher and wider.
Think Flash (eventually) had most of these. That said, not all software development needs to happen at the same scale and not all software authoring environments benefit from the same tradeoffs vis-a-vis complexity, collaboration, accesibility etc. the success of Flash as a platform for independent game devs shows that different markets are better served by different tradeoffs.
The post has nothing to do with writing software. It would have as much value if it were written by someone who'd never written a line of code in their life. It's about the social dimension of LLMs and how the personality they present is, for some of us, pretty grating.
Martin is a good writer and (from what I've heard from those who've spent time with him) a lovely person which I think makes him well qualified to speak on the topic.
I agree, they are just tools, but the way they are presented; taking natural language as their input and responding in kind strongly influences the way our brains react to them on a social level. That's what I mean by their social dimension.
As I said in another comment, to me this seems like it must have a strong personality or psychological component of some kind. I'm really not trying to be condescending or anything, but I just simply do not experience that reaction. I know that I'm interacting with a computer program, I would have to actively pretend to experience this social reaction.
I understand that many people seem to experience it totally differently.
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