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it just comes down to willingness to stop and chat with each other. at a company of sufficient size everyone is in different offices/cities/countries anyways so you'll always hit some sort of odd issue. You just have to be able to control what you can.

For me, being in office would add nothing, because my team is split between two cities, and if i ask a question outside of my team its highly likely we're talking about crossing oceans.

Like anything, its about communication

haha I'd be surprised if I'm drinking more coffee than usual during those drives.... but any road trip I am definitely consuming more snacks and candy due to very poor self control.

In a few 7 or so hour drives in our ev, charging stops added probably an hour total. For how we drive it actually wasn’t bad at all and the chargers were (almost) all in nice spots where we could grab a coffee and use the restroom. I wish I could squeeze a bit more range out at interstate cruising speed though.

Is the implication that areas become less desirable or that there is always new housing so existing housing isn’t as desirable?

I’m not sure I understand this viewpoint at all.

I think the narrative that this was driven by safety concerns is pretty much bunk.

They claimed to remove the CEO with cause. They have not provided cause. Even the twitch dude is asking for the cause.

The board just firing off half-cocked and then going silent is probably a larger source the issues for employees than altman the person/leader. There is effectively nobody in the driver seat and the board can't be trusted to do anything in the best interests of the company.

youth wouldn't have a bearing on their ability to comprehend the complexities of AI, but maybe they have less experience with startups/companies/management.

No matter what, OAI is pushing AI forward, but they aren’t the only ones pushing. Governance of one nonprofit has no bearing on the direction of the tech at large.

We are going to have to learn to live with AI advancements no matter what and probably do what we can to ensure it is regulated.

It has never been about AI safety. They just threw their little mission statement on the end like an email signature.

Nothing could possibly weaken their position more than the last 72 hours

You have to gather and store the data. You have to design and experiment with the model architecture. You have to train the various experiments.

You have to now invent a way to serve this at scale.

You do care about safety by default, so you employ people for that.

You need a team to market and design the products.

You have an api and you’re working on additional things like API hooks to call into services, which actually involves more models.

Now you have all of the standard web app at massive scale issues. You need to design, implement, and serve a frontend as well as the api.

You need a sales team to build relationships with enterprises and startups etc etc. you need a billing team.

Don’t forget about whisper, TTS, dalle etc. you need to do this for all of those as well!

You’re also doing this faster and better than the rest of the industry.

You also need lawyers, office staff, support, etc.

Honestly, any strategy from George Costanza would be better than this.

To start, he would’ve coasted at the easiest job on the planet.

yeah, when I think of autocomplete I definitely think of predicting the next thing a person is going to type, which is related but basically equivalent to "a horse and a plane to both get to a destination, whats the difference" in my mind.

If you're going to speak so abstractly you really lose the forest for the trees IMO. I do like the murder mystery example

if you'd like to take a quote out of context in order to equate two different technologies, you just go to town.

maybe chatgpt is overhyped a bit (maybe a lot).... most of that hype is external to OAI.

But to boil it down to autocomplete is just totally disingenuous.

far more than a handful are thinking of quitting, and the open invite from microsoft makes this a very different animal from a typical upheaval.

not to mention how incredibly arrogant it is to think that if you stop, all progress stops. you're in a race and you refuse to acknowledge that anybody else is even around

Not claiming to know anything about any persons differences or commenting about that in any way.

tune in tomorrow for "who wants to be a CEO"!

in my experience these things will typically go hand in hand. There is also an argument to be made that being smart at building ML models and being smart in literally anything else have nothing to do with each other.

again, nobody has shown even a glimmer of the board operating with morality being their focus. we just don't know. we do know that a vast majority of the company don't trust the board though.

I think we really need to see that Ilya demonstrates those principles and it wasn’t just a power grab.

You could also look at this as a brilliant scientist feels he doesn’t get recognition. Always sees Sam’s name. Resents it. The more gregarious people always getting the glory. Thinks he doesn’t need them and wants to settle some score that only exists in his own head.

It’s possible he paid well and was a great boss. I don’t know if these people are gonna take a bullet for him, but maybe he was great to work for and they got opportunities they think they wouldn’t have otherwise.

Loyalty, appreciation, liking… is a spectrum. Loyalty doesn’t have one trumpish definition.

This is proving the point of the parent comments.

My view of the world, and how the general structure is where I work:

ML is ml. There is a slew of really complex things that aren’t just model related (ml infra is a monster), but model training and inference are the focus.

Backend: building services used by other backend teams or maybe used by the frontend directly.

Data eng: building data pipelines. A lot of overlap with backend some days.

Frontend: you spend most of the day working on web or mobile technology

Others: site reliability, data scientists, infra experts

Common burdens are infrastructure, collaboration across disciplines, etc.

But ML is not backend. It’s one component. It’s very important in most cases, a kitschy bolt on in other cases.

Backend wouldn’t have good models without ML and ML wouldn’t be able to provide models to the world reliably without the other crew members.

The fronted being charts is incorrect unless charts are the offering of the company itself

I love the assumption here that truck drivers just aren’t interested in better acceleration.

its a tool. use the tool. I don't care if the house is built using an old fashioned hammer or a nail gun. I do care if you used nails when you should've used something else, or used the wrong nails.

i'm not replying about the concept of under promise, over deliver, but more like.... why would you avoid a tool that helps you do something quickly because you don't want to explain to your client that some steps aren't as fast to do as others.

to be fair though, most apps are just over complicated CRUD apps that shouldn't be much more complex than a todo app

I think a lot of these demos aren't necessarily trying to push forward a no-code purist approach, but rather showing how you can get basically a live wireframe going in no time at all. I think tools like canva, figma, etc will be all over this stuff and really improve high-fidelity wireframes/demos

I don't know if "do everything manually and slowly so that you never have to set realistic expectations" is a great way to do business. Being worse at your job on purpose isn't typically a great strategy.

It sounds to me like the commenter has found a subset of his work which can be sped up significantly with chatGPT and is using that to continue conversations with a potential client. Pretty cool if you ask me.

this is correct