Not to mention the ability to do work holidays, where I go to the beach or whatever and work from there for a week or two. And the sick days is a big one that benefits the company. I've never once oficially taken one since WFH. I might have been mostly just standing by if I felt like shit, but still available for anything urgent.
The next 5 years are going to be hell. Expect AI pushed into everything but the kitchen sink. With the accompanying price raises whether you want the "feature" or not.
The attention he got because of Twitter has always been overwhelmingly negative, by his own doing. Do you think the guy who founded Tesla and SpaceX needed any more media attention?
This guy would be considered a genius, admired and respected worldwide, a living legend.. if he'd never opened that Twitter account. But he did, so he's just another eccentric rich idiot.
So now you've got the CTO, CEO, and 3 top engineers creating a new company pronto, with VCs and the usual suspects queueing up to throw money at them. Bad move from OpenAI.
Really? What would happen if OpenAI dissapeared tomorrow and ChatGPT closed down? In practice, nothing. Ask yourself the same question about the truly important organizations in the world.
I've been watching this whole hype cycle completely horrified from the sidelines. Those early debates right here on HN with people genuinely worried about an LLM developing conscience and taking control of the world. Senior SWEs fearing for their jobs. And now we're just throwing the term AGI around like it's imminent.
I don't the know the situation now, but in the UK you could break into an empty place, then change the locks, and from that point on they could not evict you without a long process involving going to court. There was (is?) a huge squatters community because of this.
Why BS? It appears to be incredibly useful for a lot of people. You don't seem to have had a long career, let me tell you that it pays to keep an open mind.
I suspect we're going to see this article in many different forms over the next few years. That's when the hype cycle will settle and people realize that LLMs are amazing search engines on steroid buy will never replace actual developers.
Same here. I have completely lost all interest in new tech, devices, trends, etc. Using anything today is an excercise of finding out all the different ways it's trying to screw you over.
Berlin has got to be the most unfriendly city in Europe to rave in as a foreigner by far. I was into that scene back then and would much rather party in London or Amsterdam.
Interestingly, the Netherlands has the largest squatters community that I know of, with lots of buildings across the country that have been occupied for a long time, legally it seems.
Last time I checked all terminal emulators available in Emacs showed visible lag when rendering output. Not really suitable for serious work on the terminal.
We really take GNU for granted. What an incredible achievement and legacy for all of us in the industry. Say what you might about Stallman but he deserves massive credit and respect for it.