He also effectively dismantled one of the rarest and most coveted achievements in marketing: the transformation of a common verb into a universally recognized reference to a specific product.
By renaming Twitter, he erased the cultural shorthand of "tweeting," a level of brand entrenchment that most companies can only dream of attaining.
Tesla is absurdly over-valued. They're going to experience a correction eventually... Elon has been delaying the inevitable because he's over leveraged.
While considering that sounds sensible, it seems the on-call was able to escalate to the team with very little delay.
As far as I can tell from the timeline, it only took 11 minutes from the moment the on-call first attempted the action until the ops team began responding.
Given that this issue was caused by someone unintentionally using a level of access that they had to do something they did not intend, and the minimal impact reduction, deciding not to grant higher levels of access to the on-call seems to me to be the right decision.
This is one reason AWS Fargate is so good. No, it isn’t developer friendly, but it gives you performance that actually matches the CPU allocation while still abstracting the VMs.
It doesn’t, actually, because you have zero guarantees on what generation of hardware you’ll end up on from deployment to deployment. Haswell this time, Ice Lake next time. What fun!
This is a great article but one thing it doesn’t discuss is the importance of who the underlying cloud provider is. Many companies are pretty locked into AWS for better and for worse, regardless of whether they use things like lambda that are known for lock-in. Just the fact that you can use crunchydata, redis.com, and heroku is a reflection of being on AWS under the hood. Moving to something like fly.io or railway means introducing internet egress between your services.
Yes, you're right lol. Equally as bad. I actually thought it might be that but couldn't quite remember. Imagine trying to ask people for the use case of why they need joins...
Yeah, you know the “open-source X alternative“ branding has gone too far when we get to this point. With that said, this seems cool as far as being built on Google app scripts.
Based on everything I’ve read I’m firmly in the camp that what MM is doing is a net negative for the WordPress community, and I don’t envy the employees at his company, but this site feels bad faith to me. Meaning, its goal seems to be to hurt his reputation generally more than it is to inform regarding specific issues.
At the end of the day, the fundamental dynamic here is human creativity. We are taking a tool, the LLM, and stretching it to its limit. That’s great, but that doesn’t mean we are close to AGI. It means we are AGI.
This is an insightful comment, though it just goes to show how rigid the framing is of "natural vs. artificial" or "human vs. machine". None of this stuff has any vitality outside of _some_ relationship or interface with people.
Yeah, it makes the owner class richer while driving the marginal cost of labor to zero, at which point the working class can't sell their labor at all and starve.
This would assume the rich some how oppresses everyone to pieces. If I have access to all this wonderful automation tech, I'm sure as fuck not going to sit around and starve, I'm going to try automate my food production to make more food, more efficiently ?
> If I have access to all this wonderful automation tech
But "you" don't, that is precisely the point. The speed at which the gap between rich and poor grows keeps increasing, after all -- the rest is commentary --, and people who right now send people to die and murder in wars for oil, and what not not, will not suddenly start sharing when they fully captured all means of production for good. That's like hoping the person who keeps stealing your shit every chance he has, leaving you in sickness or death without a thought will give you a billion dollars once all the locks on your house have rusted off completely and you no longer have means to call the police.
This is a step towards a human-machine hybrid world. Putting a human in the loop can do wonders. Sure, it is expensive now, but the subsequent iterations will crush it.
Have you heard of Centaur chess? A human and a machine would team up to find the best chess moves against another similar team. It's not a thing anymore. Computers have advanced so much that humans can't really contribute in any meaningful sense.
All these AI models do quite well in games because there are set rules, finite moves, and they can iterate in a tight loop (without humans) to get immediate feedback on pass/fail.
I think this is what differentiates the speed at which AIs have gotten from ok -> good -> great -> better than humans at say chess, versus say driving a car, summarizing a paper, understanding human requests, recommending music, etc.
I think a lot of people are extrapolating the rate of progress & possible accuracy rates from chess bots to domains that do not compare.
Is the point of your comment to make people feel depressed ?
Either we're going to use these tools to augment our abilities or basically just become wiped out, at least our jobs will be, and there is no plan to provide support for anyone. Maybe the tech will make the transition to a post employment world so swift we don't even feel any negative economic effects at all, but let's see.
Depressing hasn’t been the reality for the majority of people over the last 100 years of technological progress. You could die from a scratch or a kidney stone 100s ago.
Once we realize we can make machines that can beat us in ways we can’t even understand, I wonder if will question if we have always been influenced this way by an exterior force
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