Correct! I think we need a naming convention that lets us quickly understand if we're talking to a human or a machine. The R. prefix (meaning Robot) is unobtrusive and familiar to anyone who has encountered Asimov's stories. It will also generalize to humanoid LLM/VLA powered actual robots in future.
i mean this is the same thing as self-driving cars and all sorts of technology - humans are our benchmark, being better than a human and cheaper immediately unlocks massive value everywhere. if i can hire a human-level programmer for ~$100 USD per month, that is an incredible upgrade from that costing me ~$10k per month!
Where’s all this supposed value being generated. What software is better? What is cheaper?
Nothing.
All lies.
Everything is actually worse.
Programmers got fooled into working harder and getting paid the same, if not less because the job market is so terrible now. Congrats you played yourself.
Saying you feel more productive is a worthless measure especially when these things are designed to gas you up and make you feel good.
Have you seen profits lately? The money is going to the shareholders. You hardly see it in the products you buy (they're the same, just more expensive) or in your wage going up.
This is not (just) AI, but generally speaking that's what's going on. Wage and profit have been out of tune for a long time and it's getting worse. [1]
Specifically on AI: maybe the job market is down because of AI (it plays a part in it). Then that's where the value is at: same output with less developers. Money straight in the pockets of the shareholders.
i mean, other smart people have famously delayed cancer treatment without needing poor guidance from LLMs! that's not at all new or unique to LLM chatbots
Completely agree. And I think a lot of roles frame this as "part of the job", something always unavoidable. But if I was an exec and my team was spending half their time trying to read between the lines of my poor communication, fixing that would be priority #1; what an enormous waste of time for people who I (ostensibly) hired for their other skills!
License plate concealers are illegal in NYS. Being able to read license plates is critical for identifying vehicles involved in crimes. I hope you are eventually caught and punished!
No see I believe the people who created speed/red light cameras and congestion pricing are the criminals. I punish them by concealing my plate. Illegitimate system.
That death is of course tragic, but it's important to put it in context.
That's the only death of a self-driving car. That's the only one. There was a safety driver with their hands on the wheel, and they didn't see the pedestrian either. And that was an Uber self-driving car, and they've since canceled that project.
While incredibly tragic, it's not at all fair to say that self-driving cars are constantly plowing into people.
Waymo has driven more than 1 million miles with no human injuries. That's dramatically better than any human driver.
Cruise is a close second in number of miles, also with no human injuries.
this feels like throwing the baby out with the bathwater. is this a common attack vector? frustrating that we sacrifice so much usability to prevent niche problems like this.
agree, but agree with another reply that it doesn't even seem like technical competency is the skill used outside of potentially engineering. feels like optimizing for "managing up" (which is code for "making people above you happy" and doesn't necessarily correlate with delivering any type of value) is what these managers do. in other R&D roles (design, product) most managers i've met aren't actually gifted at executing in an IC context
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