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...pin up one team member. So now the benefit of spinning up other team members is almost entirely the first benefit. Which requires people to have useful judgment and knowledge to complement what the team already has. It used to be that as long as...
...nding of! LLMs are pretenaturally good at translation. That allows them to live almost entirely in the semantic dimension. Humans can only live in the semantic dimension in their heads, or in the imperfect channel of spoken language. LLMs have a...
... surprising ways. How far can you throw a ball from your current position? It's almost entirely determined by the force and angle. Gravity is the constant that constrains the system. But what if gravity reversed direction? Now almost no matter h...
...ell is paved with good intentions. Every incremental step every person takes is almost entirely reasonable, but the emergent result can be a totally different character.
... emotionally intense. They're uncomfortable but we also crave them. The feed is almost entirely a feed of prediction errors. "Look at this surprising thing. Now look at this totally other thing!" You're overwhelmed, and can't form a coherent wor...
... large. The agency is hollow. They feel like you are exercising agency but it's almost entirely superficial. I wonder if that will happen more and more for adults in AI-powered tools. "Do you want the red drink or the blue drink?"
The difficulty of a programming task now comes down almost entirely to novelty. It used to be that there was a difference between integration hard and algorithmically hard engineering. Integration hard is easy to do, ...
In person you see almost entirely people who are earnestly trying to do the right next thing. It's only in media that you see the opposite.
... part of the challenge is that spreadsheets have a lot of complex state that is almost entirely hidden. To understand someone else's spreadsheet you have to overturn every rock to see what logic's hiding there. You can't see it, it's hard to hav...