Got it. Thanks for sharing the guidelines.
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So, I built tokount. It is almost entirely built by prompting the replit agent. Except for the tokenizer, which was written with some help from chatGPT o1-preview.
It cost me approx. $45 just for prompting the replit agent, and a few additional dollars for database and VM. Took about 2 full days and did it on a mix of phone and laptop. Needed the laptop for tokenizer, most other features could be built just on the phone.
Conclusion: I’m definitely better off using the API. It’s surprising how much text is needed to reach 1M Tokens.
I'll explain in short.
It makes me happy that such sadness, fear, pain and suffering is not present today.
On the other hand, It makes me sad that all of that meaning is lost in society and we chase frivolous things. We don't value humans for their humaneness anymore. We value them for their external appearance, and other frivolous things.
I understand that I cannot generalize the general public this way, but remember i'm taking a subjective stance. I'm merely stating its impact on my thoughts, it may be far from the truth or on point. I dont care.
Companies like Toyota generally outsource software development to other companies like Bosch. Bosch employs a bunch of programmers in Bangalore who are just out of college, and pay them peanuts to develop a safety critical system.
Consider the profession of driving. There will always be a need for "drivers", not just humans, for transporting goods, services etc. Is driving an exercise of just connecting our senses? No. It also involves performing actions based on inputs from these senses. Why would anyone want to create VR based drivers? It makes no sense, because self driving cars are already possible. Self driving cars have already won the competition in this case. This is the one scenario where VR and self driving cars compete.
Now consider the profession of software development. Here, let's say VR made it such that you wouldn't have a need to drive to work. Then, you wouldn't drive to work, but you'd still need to get places - for which a car (maybe self driving) is still required. In this case, again, self driving cars and VR are not competing. One has made removed the need for the other for a very specific purpose. This is not competition.
I think your question is asked with a very narrow minded view of "working". You're probably a software engineer. AMIRITE?
Every knows that in any workplace, corporate politics is expected, but not to an extent where someone gets sick, or frustrated after contributing so much. There is a reason meritocracy is needed, and amazon is an extreme case where meritocracy is not present, and will lead to its own collapse if not checked, which is exactly what he states.