Unpopular opinion, but I think it's way more difficult to use Generative AI in an area where you are a rank beginner than in a field where you have some subject matter expertise in.
For example, you can ask GPT-4 to build you a front end, but if you don't know anything about
@TheJackForge
It's the same quote in Ratatouille:
"Not everyone can be a great chef, but a great chef can come from anywhere"
The beautiful thing about programming is that the resources are out there for anyone to learn to be a great one, for free.
@emollick
Other video games with professional proficiency correlations:
- Factorio - Engineering
- Eve Online - Accounting
- Euro truck simulator 2 - German truck drivers
@10xwithakshay
@AyeJayTwo
The recent amount of hype from all the "AI-thread-guys" makes it seem like Generative AI was about to make your bed and serve you sandwiches 😂
@lulumeservey
"Never let a good crisis go to waste" - Churchill
Love him or hate him, his political instincts are second to none. Bro has elevated himself to Teddy Roosevelt status with this.
@amitisinvesting
Uhh no, if anything this is a giant wake up call to everyone that it's absolutely absurd for us to run critical infrastructure on Windows in 2024
Well this tweet got a few eyeballs on it, who said long tweets were dead? 😂
Just to add some more context on the "unpopular opinion" part. Once I step outside of our AI bubble, I see way too many experts flat out ignore these tool's existence. At the same time, there's also too
@yacineMTB
There was a story about early days of Facebook shared on reddit a while ago:
OP worked at a data center. His servers shared a rack with a couple few servers that had college names on it, kinda odd but not too unusual.
About a week later, the entire rack was filled, another week
@tszzl
Peak Facebook engineering is reminiscent of peak Boeing engineering, smart people building cool shit for the sake of building cool shit, money no object.
Cassandra, React, GraphQL, PyTorch, Presto...
@browserdotsys
Similar story from IT:
> user complains webcam is blurry
> is there something stuck on it? can wipe it?
> yeah I did, still blurry
> reboot, reinstall zoom, webcam drivers
> still blurry
> alright we'll ship you a new webcam
> *next day* j/k turns out there was a piece of tape
🤬
@blader
I like this one, it’s one of my go-tos as I want to understand a candidate’s natural aptitude and propensities.
My variation is: “What is your superpower? What seems to come easily to you that sometimes you struggle to understand why others don’t quite get it the way you do?”