Agreed, how many forms of cancer or disease have been cured by this AI revolution so far? One example would be nice. I still think it is one of the best forms of information compression the world has ever seen and still see plenty of value, but the primary uses so far seem to be to maximize slop, smut, and ads, which puts us back a square one.
Imagine I had a pill today that absolutely cured cancer. It would take years of clinical trials, testing on animals and humans, exploration of side effects, which cancers it fixes and so on. and so on. And thats before we talk about production at scale and so on.
The AI idea is the really fast part of the cycle, but its a tiny part of the process.
Jaded is an understatement. I'm a data scientist and still like what I do most of the time. I have a decent amount of flexibility and freedom to self-direct my efforts to what I know will help the business best. However, the enterprise BS and 80/20 rule in full force combined with everyone thinking they're an AI expert because they read a few articles is starting to urk me. If I see one more start up that is just an LLM wrapper my head is going to pop.
A little bit of humility goes a long way and separates the good ones from the rest. I hate being referred to as an expert because we're all still learning. Some more than others...
I'm amazed how much these networks charge for things like SMS messaging. You would think it would be cheap and then you realize it is almost 1 penny per message or two. Also, explains why you see so many MVNOs anymore.
Focus on what you can control. Detach from social media. Get outside. Spend time with the people in your life who matter. We live in an information age where we know everything immediately, but it's a blessing and a curse.
Tried that in 2022 before the war broke out. Didn't take long for reality to catch up with me, sitting in a neighbor's cellar hearing missile whooshing past up above.
Even that will pass (for most — for some, it might simply "end" :/). I've been sitting in a cellar and bomb shelters in 1999 myself: yes, your struggle is worse and longer, but it will pass. The information you need today is very limited, so focus on that (what will be hit next; are there potential targets around you at all times, where do you get water/food in case systems break down, etc).
We are all victims of this weirdo game of global, live Risk, and unless you commit yourself to politics, really not much you can do here either: survive and focus on what's next!
You couldn't have prevented the reason why the missiles are flying in the first place though. Of course a realistic sense of alert still helps, but it's lunatics in Russia running the show, not you or anybody else you know.
This is a time and target where "them-ing" is appropriate.
Yep, it's the AI that's going to save your flailing company and this had nothing to do with the obsurd pandemic hiring spree or your poor business performance in recent years.
I don't totally disagree with the mindset, just the rational for the downsizing.
I mean really most companies have a backlog of feature ideas a mile long, and some tool comes along making your employees 40% more efficient, and the best thing you can think to do is the exact same thing at the exact same tempo but with fewer employees?
The CEO who thinks that way should be replaced due to incompetence, or at least due to lack of vision and imagination.
You can file a provisional patent, which gives you the ability to discuss your innovation in public without compromising your full patent filing. It gives you a year to file a full patent for the invention, and it's much cheaper than a full patent, but does not necessarily protect your IP. That's what I did in the hopes I can get enough traction and capital to file a full one. Otherwise I would just consider the IP a trade secret and not disclose.
I've wondering about this too and tend to agree. Vibe coding a single function app is easy, but delivering a platform that scales to enterprise levels is much different, especially with proper security, QA, and UAT. Not saying AI won't be capable of this fully, but it's certainly harder. Plus, do companies really want to take on the burden of upgrading, debugging, and maintaining everything themselves, I think not. But what do I know, I'm just a human hoping he'll still have a job :p.
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