Honestly “prompt engineering” is already mostly dead, and in most cases claude already handles its long term memory (claude.md, skills etc…) autonomously. You just have to nudge it here and there to document such and such details you know are important but it’s marginal.
No they don’t, which is why tokenmaxxing is mostly a thing in large corporations and the dummies who try to emulate them. They are uniquely at risk because their internal structures tend to favor sycophancy and malicious compliance.
Small projects on the other hand are uniquely poised to reap whatever advantage AI has to offer, while largely ignoring its hype cycles.
I’m probably a dreamer but I do believe the outcome will be a great decentralization, at least once open models get to the required level of performance (which they are months away from anyway).
That isn’t true at all
So you’re saying the US hasn’t depleted their missile stockpiles for their bullshit war in Iran ? Or are you saying that China isn’t ramping up production of their own stockpile ?
It’s a chip war
So you’re saying Chinese interest in controlling Taiwan is only a thing since they started making GPUs there ? Or are you saying China has no strategic interest in controlling one access to the South China Sea and is only looking to snatch the TSMC fabs ?
I’ll reiterate cause maybe i wrote my first comment poorly : Xi hasn’t manipulated Trump into ditching Taiwan. Trump has already announced some time ago that US security assurances are bullshit and that US allies will be left out to dry. But now it’s even clearer because the US simply doesn’t have the military dominance anymore. They could handle a few weeks of high intensity conflict with China at best before they have to fold and go back home. They got their asses handed to them in Iran imagine the fucking bloodbath if they go to war with a comparable power.
The chip thing is a fig leaf. China has made it so that they don’t really depend on this tech, they train their own models on TPUs and older non-embargoed GPUs. The US is obsessed with TSMC but the Chinese not so much because they know they’ll never get it. The moment they cross the border the fabs will be blown up.
It’s not manipulation. The US in it’s current strategic state simply cannot guarantee Taiwan’s security. Trump is simply affirming publicly what everybody already knows.
It’s kind of standard practice at this level. They get a million resumes a week in inbound, of which they hire very little, and they have an army of recruiters who go searching for people in the industry, who for the most part already have a job.
It’s way more profitable to let small startups grow juniors into competent employees and pluck them when they’re ripe, than to take risks on junior profiles. (not that i condone it but it’s a sad truth of recruitment)
Exactly. Mega corps don’t touch entry level work, they do exactly as you say and pay a friend of theirs so that this friend can steal wages from poor people and guarantee them floor-level prices.
Honestly it doesn’t matter if you make 300k a year at Meta or $12 an hour at Walmart
It absolutely does. If you can make 300K at Meta you can make 250K someplace else. Missing out on those extra 50K is nowhere near an existential threat to you.
If you make 12$/h at Walmart i am not blaming you for taking what you can and making a living of it. If you work for a Meta subcontractor in Kenya doing 300$ a month i am not blaming you.
But if you choose to work for an objectively evil company while you have other options (which you definitely have if EvilCorp is even considering your resume), and you make that choice just to maximize your discretionary spending… then you can’t play the solidarity card.
Are you under the impression that only Amazon, Microsoft & Walmart are hiring ? Did every software company suddenly vanish while i was napping ? Sorry but there are a million companies hiring the same kind of profiles as Meta, which are not evil monopolistic mega-corporations.
Also what’s Walmart got to do with this ? You think greeters and cashiers are hired from the same pool as Meta product owners ?
I’ve known people with experience and degrees that have been searching for like 6 months
If that is the case then Meta probably won’t touch their resume with a 10-ft pole.
I mean if I worked for a soul sucking corporation (pick one Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc.) and another shitty corporation (Meta) offered me a substantial pay raise why wouldn’t I take it?
But that’s not the real scenario. Monstruous companies aren’t the only jobs around. There’s a bajillion smaller and more ethical companies that hire the same kind of profiles as Meta.
Also the mega-corporations tend to not poach small fish from each other. Sure they’ll go after each other’s top performers but there’s a tacit agreement that “normal workers” are not fair game.
meta doesn’t only have high level jobs
The majority of their hires are experienced profiles. “Bog standard” worker in Meta is already a pretty high paying job as entry level work is massively outsourced.
all who work there are some kind of imaginary elite?
That’s not at all what i’m saying. I’m saying if you can land a job at Meta then you can absolutely find a job elsewhere. There is nobody in the world who is stuck between an empty belly and accepting a position at Meta. They’re just stuck between making good money somewhere, and making better money at Meta.
That’s bullshit. Almost all meta hires are poached, and they’re not coming for you if you’re not in a position to make good money.
The vast majority of these people chose to leave an already cushy job to get in there.
It’s a sad state of affairs. Post anything that is going against the grain, you must be a bot or part of a coordinated attack…
Some people are unlearning the fact that different opinions exist :'(
They are all saying that since someone threatened to molotov Altman’s house, but at the same time they’re doing everything in their power to make sure nothing resembling ubi ever happens.
You don’t hire interns for productivity
Because it’s unethical. I’ve been in business for 10+ years but i never hired an intern because i don’t find it fair to make someone work for less than minimum wage, and i don’t have the structure required to really teach them anything. I have bad fundamentals and only ever learnt by doing, so having an intern while it may help me wouldn’t really help them and that’s not a deal i’m willing to make. Probably why i’m not super successful lol
That being said, i don’t see any problem with making a GPU cry somewhere in California for my menial tasks. And it’s tremendously effective too, for a hundred bucks a month i get a lot of shit done that would take me ages. I don’t give it access to anything critical so it can’t fuck my shit up and i come out on top as long as the tokens are subsidized by dumb VC money.
As if a 90$/month intern wasn’t a good deal lol
In my experience I’ve mostly seen it used for a local equivalent of S3 to plop in your dev environment. It’s pretty good if your prod depends on S3 and you don’t want to deal with the cost and latency of using actual S3 buckets during development.
I’m picturing some John wick character who legitimately finds himself in tons of car chases and ticking time bomb scenarios
They have the audacity of doing things, that is despicable and definitely reprehensible.
It’s interesting that this comment is getting downvotes. Lately i’ve been seeing a lot of people trying to pass off bad mental health as valid political discourse, as if being healthy was only possible in a perfectly fair world which has never existed and probably never will.
Say what you will about the state of the world, but anxiety is not normal. Having depressive thoughts all the time is not normal. Living in profound nostalgia of everything from your childhood is not normal. Don’t normalize bad mental health, it’s not the world’s fault, cause it’s not a fault but it sure is your responsibility to fix.
Then when you’re stable and healthy, that’s when the real fighting back starts. Look at the assholes turning the world into shit, they have amazing agency and executive control. How are you going to beat that when you’re too anxious to pick up a phone and too depressed to leave your own bed ?