I heard an analogy about an electric screwdriver, too. It makes the job go faster, but you still need to know what kind of screws to use and where to place them.
But yes, it can be faster. And you can dig yourself into a hole faster if you let your agent take lead.
We’ve already seen models degrading from being trained on LLM-generated data. The big companies were overly eager to follow the EU directive to watermark output. I think that’s solely so that they can filter it out when scraping for future training data. They’re running out of good training data to steal. I don’t imagine they’ll be paying a fair wage to anyone generating novel good data.
Entry jobs disappearing is uncharted territory. My latest hire had three years work experience in a very niche field. I’d have a hard time justifying anyone more jr than that for a startup burning investor capital.
I’m in software engineering. AI is pretty far along in my field, and also very suited for it. I’ve spent two decades writing everything from very low-level to high-level code. I enjoy it, but it’s just labor at this point. What LLMs allows me to do is move to the role of systems architect. I have an endless supply of tireless jr engineers to execute my designs.
I get quick results. But I’m not as in touch with the codebase as if I had written it myself. You can do things wrong, and you can do things right. I like to compare it with a chainsaw. You get the job done a lot faster than with a regular saw, but you can fuck up a lot harder, too.
The field is moving fast. In the last two years it’s gone from helpful auto-complete to finishing projects on its own.
I expect to be downvoted.
I have a smart plug on my washing machine. It fires off a push notification to my wife when the draw has returned to nothing for a few minutes. Then the wife gets the laundry and hangs it to dry.
I can’t recall where I got them. Probably the cheapest stuff off of eBay or Amazon. Looks like adafruit has one, too.
The original remote for my Panasonic units sends all the settings over IrDA, so I only had to record and replay the commands to turn it on and off.
The only internet-connected 32-bit device I own is a PowerBook G4 running MorphOS. I have an OG raspberry pi that controls a model lighthouse that we have for decoration.
In my old house I had two pi zero W:s with IR-HATs that turned on the air conditioning when they saw my phone nearby over Bluetooth. I’d still run those if I lived there.
It’ll probably be like unlimited internet.
At 50kbit/s.
I have a wireless doorbell with a speaker that plugs in to an outlet.
I’d much like to replace it with a zigbee-button, but I’ve had issues finding a foolproof (wife-approved) zigbee thing to make the ding-dong-noise.
This was great at first, but ten years in their hearing has gone. They’ll sleep through me yelling at the top of my lungs now.
Everything they do is to keep you distracted from those Epstein files.
I heard that there’s a picture of Orange man’s willie in the Epstein files, but it wasn’t released because it was labelled as CP. Because it was so tiny.
I wanted to be a jedi knight.
I am a software engineer.
At standard domestic pressure (3.5bar), we’d expect 60 litres per minute through that hose. Just filling the hose would take 52 days.
The hose itself would require 3.77 million litres to fill. But after that! Profit!
Do I get a million for every metric tonne of water transferred?
It’s 12006km from Sydney to Los Angeles as the bird flies. Garden hose is ~$2/m. I’d break even after 25 metric tonnes.
I think any company that has their own infrastructure will require degrees and certification.
I’d look at hosting companies that offer managed hosting of websites, VPS:es and similar. Look to businesses that’ll host your wordpress site for a monthly fee. They’ll manage updates, and fix make sure they don’t break. There’s always a bit of hands-on, which sounds like it could be up your alley.
No, well I do the first mount over sshfs, then wrap EncFS because I don’t trust hetzner with my unencrypted data. rsync just makes sure I only copy whatever files changed since last run to keep traffic at a minimum.
I really want to play Rampart in a modern take. Might be I just miss multiplayer couch games with friends.
I’ve gone up one size. 5TB for 10,90€.
Weekly cronjob that mounts the storage box, an EncFS volume and rsyncs my files.
I popped into a Mexican restaurant for a beer and recognised our waitress from one of those casting sites. She seemed normal. I guess it was a one-off thing and she lived with the assumption that the geo-block for that site would keep locals from seeing it.