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5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs!
he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap.
if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked.
average score across all jobs is 5.3/10.
software devs: 8-9.
roofers: 0-1.
medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀
karpathy.ai/jobs
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Rich Hickey on AI.
gist.github.com/richhickey/e…
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I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.
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Fuck reddit. Permanently banned from posting art because I mentioned the word "print"
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A number of people are talking about implications of AI to schools. I spoke about some of my thoughts to a school board earlier, some highlights:
1. You will never be able to detect the use of AI in homework. Full stop. All "detectors" of AI imo don't really work, can be defeated in various ways, and are in principle doomed to fail. You have to assume that any work done outside classroom has used AI.
2. Therefore, the majority of grading has to shift to in-class work (instead of at-home assignments), in settings where teachers can physically monitor students. The students remain motivated to learn how to solve problems without AI because they know they will be evaluated without it in class later.
3. We want students to be able to use AI, it is here to stay and it is extremely powerful, but we also don't want students to be naked in the world without it. Using the calculator as an example of a historically disruptive technology, school teaches you how to do all the basic math & arithmetic so that you can in principle do it by hand, even if calculators are pervasive and greatly speed up work in practical settings. In addition, you understand what it's doing for you, so should it give you a wrong answer (e.g. you mistyped "prompt"), you should be able to notice it, gut check it, verify it in some other way, etc. The verification ability is especially important in the case of AI, which is presently a lot more fallible in a great variety of ways compared to calculators.
4. A lot of the evaluation settings remain at teacher's discretion and involve a creative design space of no tools, cheatsheets, open book, provided AI responses, direct internet/AI access, etc.
TLDR the goal is that the students are proficient in the use of AI, but can also exist without it, and imo the only way to get there is to flip classes around and move the majority of testing to in class settings.
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Roseanne Barr – Fired by ABC/Disney and her hit show Roseanne canceled overnight in 2018 after one tweet. Hundreds of cast and crew lost their jobs.
Gina Carano – Fired from The Mandalorian in 2021 for social media posts that didn’t fit the Left’s politics. Dropped by her agency too.
Megyn Kelly – Fired by NBC in 2018, her morning show canceled after comments about Halloween costumes.
Dave Chappelle – Netflix employees staged a walkout and demanded his comedy special be pulled for “transphobia.” The Left tried hard to cancel him.
Joe Rogan – The Left pressured Spotify to drop him, running coordinated campaigns and advertiser boycotts over COVID discussions.
Tucker Carlson – Taken off Fox News in 2023. Liberal activists bragged about advertiser pressure campaigns that helped force him out, costing thousands of downstream jobs.
Parler – Apple, Google, and Amazon colluded in 2021 to wipe the entire platform off the internet. Tens of thousands of small creators and businesses lost income overnight.
J.K. Rowling – Blacklisted from events, attacked by activists, and pressured out of projects for speaking her mind.
Mike Lindell – MyPillow pulled from major retailers, banned from Twitter, and targeted with advertiser boycotts.
Alex Jones – Simultaneously banned in 2018 by YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify. Coordinated erasure celebrated as a model for censorship.
Patterns are clear:
Coordinated advertiser boycotts.
Public celebrations of people losing jobs and businesses.
Two sets of rules — the Left can lie (Russia hoax, Covington kids smear, Jussie Smollett, etc.) and laugh about it, but the Right gets destroyed.
Accountability only ever goes one way. The Left has spent the last decade perfecting cancel culture, destroying jobs, nuking shows, wiping platforms off the internet, and laughing while people’s lives were ruined. But sure… Jimmy Kimmel smugly lying about a political assassination? Totally fine.
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A public company CEO told me AI coding has had negligible impact on his engineering teams, instead the real transformation has been on their product and design teams using Replit.
I asked him how does he reconcile this with CEOs saying that 25-50% of code is generated by AI?
He said that’s also true in their case—AI does generate a lot of their code—but that whatever time saved in generating the code is lost back in debugging, reverting bugs, and security audits. So if you measure time to ship, PRs merged, or whatever high-level metric you don’t see any impact.
Whereas his non-technical teams gained a fundamentally new super power of being able to make software. Prototyping with Replit makes iteration speed incredibly faster before it gets to engineering. And non-product teams—like HR—can for the first time solve problems where vendors don’t have the exact solutions they’re looking for.
I was surprised to hear the part about engineering teams, and I’m sure every company will be different, but it made sense the profound impact coding agents are having on non-technical folks.
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🚨By law, financial institutions like @Visa and @Mastercard must have to have a hotline for integrity, ethics, and compliance complaints. The trending concerns are then raised and delivered to the Board of Directors, and become available to customers and shareholders.
Since what Visa and Mastercard are doing is unethical, we must report it to these hotlines. Bending the knee to a foreign extremist group that is weaponizing their vague TOS to censor lawfully approved content is unethical and completely displaces the integrity of the system. They are now operating as a “moral police” despite all the content they have wanted censored is legal.
You may submit complaints anonymously! Ethicspoint does actually protect your identity (from what I can tell), and both Visa and Mastercard use the same site.
Links provided in the second tweet.
This is how we can do even more to fight against @collectiveshout and @ncose requests.
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Motivation is easy. All you need is an inspiration to get started. Something similar to what was done, but your spin on it.
Discipline comes later when things get hard. Create tasks and plan your next week, plus a vague goal for 3 months ahead. Visualizing progress with finished work helps a lot. When you don't want to do any work, start with a quick 30-minute task, like a bugfix.
Depending on the project, there needs to be a moment when you switch from "let's keep adding cool things" to "let's wrap this up into a playable demo", and when you have confirmation even from a small audience on Itch that what you have is fun, things get much easier in terms of discipline.
