Unfortunately, AI Might Be Turning Us Into Peasants
Reading a lot of ACOUP, lot of issues with the video, but the idea of techno-feudalism has its logic.
Technology
How Complex Systems Fail
It is not matter of if, but matter of how. “The failures change constantly because of changing technology, work organization, and efforts to eradicate failures.” https://how.complexsystems.fail/
Why Is Software Not Cheap Yet?
We are several years in of LLMs “revolution” in software engineering. Why is software not cheap yet? If the models really make it so easy to produce it, we should see at least some reductions in costs. New competitors of… Read More »Why Is Software Not Cheap Yet?
LLMs And Leadership Skills
If LLMs really can do a work of Juniors at least (even if Mediors or Seniors), the new skill actually is leadership. Managing, defining what needs to be done, why, how. What matters and what can be skipped. I do… Read More »LLMs And Leadership Skills
Why I remain a skeptic
Ouch. “We are 4 years into this ‘revolution’ and the industry has almost nothing to show for it. Software has not improved in quality, got faster, become cheaper to produce (when you exclude the mountain of poor-quality demoware that no… Read More »Why I remain a skeptic
Reverse Jevons Paradox
Don’t do this to your company. “Say you’re in charge of a big software effort. If you make it hard to change code by requiring multiple levels of reviews, a web of Jira tickets, a horde of people needing to… Read More »Reverse Jevons Paradox
Where Are All The Security Incidents?
Seeing how some people talk about AI, I would expect there would be major security breach every day nowadays. Not one. Several of them. Where are they? Some people would say, that the edge models are so protected, that bad… Read More »Where Are All The Security Incidents?
Spider Silk
Or milking spiders. Yuck.
AI Slop and YouTube
Just sad.
Don’t Take the Black Pill
Just do good job and don’t be discouraged.