Awesome campaign ad. No negative talk. No mention of opponent. Just respect for Mississippi and a history lesson to get you fired up!
Medgar Evers was killed in his driveway because he refused to accept a Mississippi where some were denied the right to vote.
He stood with thousands who marched, organized and sacrificed so future generations could have a voice. We owe it to them not to take that right for granted. On Tuesday, honor their legacy. Vote.
And they tried to distract us by feeding the xenophobia fire, but it turns out oikophobes need to be on the watchlist too.
The media and many others have a vested interest in maintaining a left vs right narrative, but the shifts in voting and who was voted for really have less to do with red vs blue or democrat vs republican and more to do with working people vs the self-absorbed.
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Surreal to see @ossoff discussing catastrophic risk from AI in his victory speech.
Huge win for @ossoff, who is one of the most informed members of the Senate when it comes to AI risk.
I’ll never forget his incredible line: “Tech titans build bunkers while warning the artificial intelligence they're creating risks human extinction.”
Let's go!
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This contentious interchange between the NY Times and @GinaHinojosaTX was truly amazing. Hinojosa offered one of the best explanations of populism I've ever seen. Her comments were a total rejection of Corporate Dems' neoliberal formula. Her Texas victory is a game changer.
It's fascinating how much 💰💰💰 Palantir makes from bespoke applications. Their software architecture is standardized, but a massive amount of bespoke configuration, data pipeline engineering, and localized code is required to make any given deployment successful.
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"I really don't care about being right. I just care about success." - Steve Jobs, clip from the 1996 doc. Triumph of the Nerds
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Yann LeCun: The AI industry is completely LLM-pilled. Everybody is working on the same thing.
“They’re all digging the same trench.”
“They’re stealing each other’s engineers, so they can’t afford to do something different.”
“If they start going on a tangent, they’re going to fall behind the other guys.”
“It’s one big reason I left Meta. Meta also became LLM-pilled.”
“I cannot imagine that we can build agentic systems without those systems being able to predict the consequences of their actions.”
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My prediction for software engineering over the next 3 to 5 years.
AI won't replace software engineers. It'll drive even greater demand for them.
A team of 5 experienced engineers using AI will outperform a team of 20 pre-AI.
Which will dramatically reduce the cost of building software.
I think we'll see Jevons paradox in action. As something becomes cheaper and more efficient to produce, demand for it can increase dramatically.
Thousands of software projects that previously weren't economically viable will become worth doing.
The winners will be companies, big and small, that behave like Google, Amazon and 3M, with a culture of experimentation, a willingness to try lots of ideas and the discipline to kill their darlings.
TL/DR: Smaller engineering teams, more innovation, more software products, and potentially more software engineers than ever.
What do you think?
There is a massive gap between Machine Learning (ML)/AI expertise and Software Engineering. There is a BIG difference between creating an LLM and using one. ML experts in the spotlight trumpeting the end of Software Engineering are currently mistaken.
ML experts misunderstand the task. ML/Deep Learning experts are smart folks. They work with smart Software Engineers to generate their models. LLMs are amazing. But there is a HUGE difference in creating a model and using a model and code generation is not software engineering.