The AI "marketing" frame is: "If you don't use this revolutionary new technology you'll be left behind."
...keting" frame is: "If you don't use this revolutionary new technology you'll be left behind." Is it any wonder there's pushback?
Topic: left behind
12 chunks · 12 episodes
2.3x burst in 2024 Q3
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- left behind appears in 12 chunks across 12 episodes, from 2024-04-01 to 2026-05-18.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 4/1/24 (2024-04-01), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with become increasingly, overall system, and apis, while by chunk count it sits between hill climbing and personal data; its yearly rank moved from #112 in 2024 to #61 in 2026.
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To succeed in this new era you need AI judgment and domain judgment.
...nt… but how will junior people develop it now? If they don't use AI, they'll be left behind by much more effective others. If they do use AI, they won't gain nearly as much domain judgment.
If you aren't using claude code you're being left behind.
If you aren't using claude code you're being left behind.
Different types of engineers feel differently about LLM-assisted engineering.
... It makes it so they have much less pricing power. If they opt out they will be left behind. If they opt in they will have to join in on a red queen race. The former see coding as a means to create cool and valuable things. The latter see co...
Once compilers came out, insisting on doing everything in assembly would have just gotten you left behind.
... came out, insisting on doing everything in assembly would have just gotten you left behind. Compilers were bad at the beginning, but then they got better, and as they did, they gave leverage to everyone who used them. That leverage compound...
Talking Points Memo:
...rk that shows fear of AI is repackaged fear of capitalism running away & behind left behind. So that framing of AI being controlled by the ultra rich is likely to connect, across the political spectrum."
The West went all in on swarm intelligence.
...ossible for anyone to do anything other than shortcuts. If you don't, you'll be left behind in the short term by people who do. And no one will feel shame about taking the short cuts. A compounding hollowing out.
Once C came out, anyone who insisted on coding in assembly was left behind.
Once C came out, anyone who insisted on coding in assembly was left behind. Will the same happen for LLM-coding vs hand-coding? As the compilers got better and better, it made less and less sense to write it in assembly. The...
An open system is one no one can tell to "stop".
... invest in it, it will keep growing and adapting. If you sit it out, you'll get left behind. This is not always a good thing! Sometimes it forces society to keep pressing forward on a technology that everyone is nervous about the implication...
When building a platform, deciding when to expose functionality in the platform is a hard decision.
...ard decision. Expose too little, and your platform won't get used and might get left behind. Expose too much, and you'll have significantly constrained your future agility. Every time you want to change the API, you'll have to get all of the...
Proprietary systems can survive only if the owner invests enough to keep it alive.
...tem around it the more energy it takes for the system to stay alive and not get left behind or capsize. Open systems can survive if anyone invests enough (individually or collectively) to keep it alive. A powerful asymmetry!
Organizations as they grow become increasingly about optics (politics) not output (ground truth).
...d on your optics, and if they don't think you're doing a good job, you might be left behind or knocked out of the game. So as the org gets larger, you can feel your action to output less (it's more shared) and also the vast majority of peopl...
Terminology drift
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Later framing
- domain judgment0 → 5