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left behind appears in 11 chunks across 11 episodes, from 2024-04-01 to 2026-04-13.
Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 4/1/24 (2024-04-01), with 1 observation on this topic.
Semantically it travels with overall system, become increasingly, and ground truth, while by chunk count it sits between information flow control and perfectly bespoke; its yearly rank moved from #123 in 2024 to #70 in 2026.
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Range2024-04-01 to 2026-04-13Mean1.0 per episodePeak1 on 2024-04-01
Observations
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...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.
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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...
... 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...
...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."
...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.
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...
... 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...
...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...
...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!
...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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