Nope, this is a well known pattern. Western startup, grows, matures, MBAs take over, all they can do is look at cost numbers because they can't value anything, so send all the jobs to lowest bidder overseas, look at this sudden jump in profits! Surely we now all deserve fat bonuses. Get those bonuses, quietly move on to other jobs, company enters descent phase, new startups have since started eating into their markets, they've no way to respond because they're corpse-companies, slowly get consolidated and cannibalized and Toys-R-Us-d into the ground.
Well, sort of. The specific point Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was making is pretty much the same as how it’s used today: some speech is so obviously harmful that it can’t be protected by freedom of speech. The problem is that Holmes was using it as an example of what even “the most stringent protection of free speech” would leave unprotected, and he went on to interpret the First Amendment rather less stringently, ruling that it didn’t protect anti-draft flyers.
If AI can do anything, why can't I just prompt "Here is sudo access to my laptop, please do all my work for me, respond to emails, manage my household budget, and manage my meetings".
I've tried everything. I have four AI agents. They still have an accuracy rate of about 50%.
High karma in an internet community is not something I respect automatically. Pewdiepie and every other little online personality have tons of followers and likes.
tptacek has always come across arrogant, juvenile, opinionated, and difficult to work with.
The article provides zero measurement, zero examples, zero numbers.
It's pure conjecture with no data or experiment to back it up. Unfortunately conjecture rises to the top on hackernews. A well built study on LLM effectiveness would fall off the front page quickly.
