> just hobbies
Hobbies are hugely important to a healthy life.
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Hobbies are hugely important to a healthy life.
Seriously? Half a day a week?? As a professional FE dev there is no way this would save me 4hrs a week, every week. The existing dev tools are familiar, and while not perfect, get the job done. This tool is sugar on top of that, I can't see how it would save me so much time.
I think regular folk, and non front-end engineers could find it easier and more approachable than dev tools, but I can see why target audience engineers won't put up $30/m for it.
Edit: If this tool could demonstrably show a 3-4hr a week time saving go and show it to managers, they'll snap it up. Fact is corps are cheaper than ICs at the coal face. This is if you class "cheap" as being extremely efficient with your resources.
Just because engineers are well paid doesn't mean they should stop being efficient with their income. I'd rather spend $30 a month on lunch than on another magic tool.
The reality is mobile data can cover your minimal internet requirements in the UK.
In Canada tax rates are similar, although we do have lower VAT. In other EU countries income tax is more aggressive but they have more social benefits.
This is the paradox, while you are "trying" as you have observed, you are still desiring. Letting go of desire is effortless.
If I bought an iPhone I'd have to buy Apple storage to do all of that, and I don't want to. My Google One account has Youtube Music and Youtube premium along with the storage. I never see Youtube ads which alone is worth every penny.
Other than that I really don't miss one thing from my old iPhone. Smartphones are so good these days all iOS competes on is sugar on top.
Nope, Apple intentionally blocks anything like this to encourage people to buy iPhones. Basically what is happening is intentional.
> If you use a custom domain...
I'd suggest trying to talk the average American into doing that. You'd have to be quite out of touch with everyday people to think this is a battle you can win.
Whilst the motivation of this project is commendable it's not going to reach the volume of folks needed to make a difference.
Twitter files show it was simply the reverse before Elon. If you think that a private company like Twitter is going to be unbiased you have more faith in humanity than I do. Whatever the CEO they are going to have opinions about who to promote and who to bury.
Ukraine tweets are negative about Ukraine as much as they are positive, and I for one am tired of seeing the absolute clusterfuck that is armchair war mongers going at it 24/7.
I have used GPT-3 a fair bit, and used GPT-4 today. The differences are impressive, scary impressive so far. I am basing my `GPT(n+1)` observation on the rapid rate the tech is filling in holes that previous detractors pointed out.
The differences in code reviews is amazing. In GPT-3 it basically explained the method and said it looked good, "add some comments" was its only suggestion. GPT-4 on the other hand gave a code snippet to explain why JS "await" was unnecessary, suggested better variable names, and suggested moving some imports to a more simple file structure to reduce verbose import paths.
I think that's a beyond expectations improvement, it's so impressive it beats out the humans who reviewed the code and we implemented one of the suggestions.
If GPT-4 had ingested the entire code-base code reviews would easily be automated, humans would still do their passes but as a co-worker GPT would be invaluable. It would find swaths of missed efficiencies, fix slow SQL queries, look for testing gaps, and perhaps even assist in refactoring.
Personally I think we are underestimating the potential, I feel like we are where the world was in 1990 looking at the emerging internet. So many people underestimated the impact of the internet, many technology writers said it was hyperbole, couldn't replace bricks and mortar stores, email was never going to be for everyone, and so on. All of it wrong, profoundly missing the potential.
This stuff is beating out expectations at every release and I think that is reason enough to take it seriously and be much more considered when downplaying the hype.
As for junior devs, we don't hire IC1 for the same reasons you outlined. However, small studios do because they are cheap and serve a purpose where it's just WordPress maintenance and HTML POCs. Those jobs will disappear.
Additionally all the statements that follow along the lines of "GPT today has a hard time with xyz" are all problematic too. Today is not tomorrow, and what it can do tomorrow is what we should be talking about.
The fact is in just 3 months we've gone from fairly basic code reviews to super helpful code reviews with code examples and intelligent code contextual comments.
Comparing GPT to Homestead or any number of early attempts to translate mockup to HTML+JS is unhelpful. This is wildly different technology. Talking about what GPT can do today and landing at "it's not good enough" is also missing the point, we are nowhere near the limits of this tech and it's evolving so fast that these assessments are not insightful in the slightest.
Talking about GPT as being merely a probability evaluator is also demonstrating the authors limited insight. WE ARE ALL probability evaluators. Humans work on prior experience, employ heuristics to make decisions based on that. GPT, indeed all AI, is more or less based on that paradigm. The difference is an AI can hold the whole of its learning in a perfectly memorized model. It doesn't forget what's in that model and can draw on billions of data points to make its probabilistic determinations. We pull on bias, false memories, misunderstandings, and so on. Now, that's not to say AIs won't also be afflicted by these comprehension errors, but that just doubles down on AI doing what humans do which is astounding either way.
Jobs are going to be lost, it's a fact. Even if it's just that junior who was learning code reviews and supporting basic development, that job will be around for maybe a year or two at the rate we are moving.
Besides that, it's not about how rapid you need to send these emails out. It's about how often it's done. If you had to write birthday cards to people you barely know every day, maybe it's only one a day, it's going to get rinse and repeat very quickly. All the ways of saying "have a great day" are going to get exhausted and whoever is writing it is going to feel insincere in a short amount of time. So why not just have the AI write this sort of thing?
Slack bots welcome you to slack channels, when your email is set up there is a default welcome message. No one really cares, they just want to feel welcomed by something to break the ice. I don't think anyone really gives a stuff about how the message is written as long as it's honest. If I joined a company and the welcome email was signed off with "You friendly welcome bot", I'd be happier than some sort of boilerplate cut and paste message signed by a real person pretending they aren't writing the same thing for the 5th year in their job.
Basically endource the AI and be clear that it is the thing welcoming you. If you hide the fact an AI is pumping out an automated email it just comes across as if the business thinks of you as a drone.
You don't ask book stores to provide quick access to medical books in case of an emergency.
Why? And what other platforms "should" do this? Do phone OSs have to have CPR videos embedded for quick access?
Seems clear to me these are edge cases that certainly do not warrant legislation. The world has much bigger problems to work on.