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Maybe they’re agents

For what it’s worth, I’m not so sure there’s much of a difference in delivered value between the hours truthfully billed vs. fraudulently billed

Anyone else romanticize going to work at some remote location like the IceCube? Probably some escapism going on

I had a similar experience with this that actually concerned me. I can’t remember the quote I was googling, but it was verbatim a quote that someone said. The AI interpreted it as my quote and furthermore interpreted it as me intending harm to someone else. Now I’m worried I’m flagged in a system and waiting for the police to show at my door next time google hands over data to the government.

A bunch of these patterns are things that real human designers have been using for a while (with the exception of emojis everywhere). This is like how some people assume an em dash automatically means AI generated text.

This is uninteresting to me given he has a significant financial interest in keeping AI research going full steam ahead.

Inertia. It's extremely hard to build a network product and even moreso to dethrone the dominant player in the space

If an agent under a company’s control commits a crime, the company has committed that crime. If we hold companies directly responsible for the actions of their agents, we may end up seeing companies being more secure with their testing and model development.

Best case scenario they’ll try to monetize the site. Worse case it’s a malware distribution play (can eventually change legit repo link to malicious repo)

So this is a landing page made by someone who doesn’t maintain the actual tool? This strikes me as a potential scam—build some domain rep off someone else’s tool then capitalize somehow

So you’re giving it about a 10% chance this destroys us in the relatively near term?

I had to programmatically generate PPT files a while back. Don’t recommend. Maybe better with LLMs now

Verbatim AI responses to my PR review comments drive me up a wall

> I dreamed of doing something significant and never wanted kids

This wasn’t a sentiment I took away from the post

Hits hard. I know this is wrong, but I often find myself resentful when I see colleagues burning the midnight oil (or otherwise putting in time that I no longer have) in service of career progression.

I think the author is spot on about ruthlessly optimizing the time you do have, though. That seems to be the only way to keep up.

> 600,000 ServiceNow tickets are another element of the collection, along with 13.7 million active emails addresses from Oracle’s Responsys marketing application, and details of 11 million sales of in-flight Wi-Fi services.

I really doubt all this stuff was “de-identified”

Anyone else have coworkers responding to your human PR review comments with AI? I feel like I'm taking crazy pills, how can anyone find this socially acceptable?

I think this is well said but also would have appreciated if you disclosed that you are a government vendor and are susceptible to your own biases. Would be only reasonable given that you call the author out on this. But the difference is she actually discloses her interest.

It was a pilot and was open to a small subset of taxpayers. It was intentionally not benefiting from economy of scale to incrementally deliver value rather than probably badly trying to hit every use case the first go around.

The cost per filing criticism is generally posited in bad faith, by people who don’t understand incremental software delivery, or both

I disagree wholeheartedly that there isn’t much to study. Direct File was actually a resounding success, especially when you consider how much difficulty governments tend to have shipping good software products. There is a lot of good information in here that government entities can learn from.

Ok I was confused about this because LLM seems like an ill-fitting solution for a recommendation engine. This is much more classic machine learning stuff right

Bogus query params could work maybe

Meta is extremely net evil though

So the people lagging in the commercial model game are issuing this warning? Got it.

I think a lot of people in this thread are missing the point that CEOs or other execs can’t be replaced simply because AI can do their jobs. C-suite job security comes from power structures, not task execution.

> With AI we do have the chance to return to meritocracy

I think I am more inclined to believe the opposite of this

"Ads plus AI is sort of uniquely unsettling to me. I kind of think of ads as a last resort for us for a business model." - Sam Altman

I feel like the DRY concern with RSS feeds is overstated. I can’t remember the last time I had trouble with automagically generating an RSS feed using whatever open source framework I was authoring with at the time.

Have it work down my jira tickets while I’m sitting on the porcelain throne

Think this needs calibration, it's way too hard!