@NickADobos Start small, go big. When you like it or not. When you struggle, remember that this is the game. Carry on. In failure, don’t be crushed. Demand data. If you don’t understand, find the answer, or keep pushing. Chaos becomes order with persistence. With struggle. This is the game.
I think Sam is pretty acutely correct on the shape of things, but his take on trusted control and futures being assured is unlikely. What is more likely: it will be controlled by those who do not fully understand the space, who have different values. 1/2
Sam Altman's new interview: AI should not be designed to pursue goals that are disconnected from human needs. People must remain at the center of AI development.
“I have no interest in building a super-smart AI that accomplishes some non-human goals. People should react. People should say, ‘Hey, this is what I want, and this is what I do not want.’
I do not think the issue is that we have failed to explain the benefits. We say, ‘AI is going to cure a bunch of diseases,’ and people say, ‘Okay, that is great, but that is not really my question. My question is: What is my role in the future? What is my economic future? What is my agency? How do I know that my kids and my family will still be able to have fulfilling, creative expression, struggle, drive the world forward, grow, and do this thing together in a way that has worked for a long time?’
When people in AI say, ‘Sure, there are going to be no jobs,’ or ‘50% of jobs are going to go away,’ or ‘90% of jobs are going to go away,’ and ‘AI is going to be smarter than you at everything,’ and ‘We will give you some basic income, but you are not really going to have a role,’ that is horrible.
And by the way, if an AI company says, ‘Maybe we are going to destroy all the jobs, and we will be the most valuable company in the world,’ people should look at you like, ‘Yeah, that is a terrible message.’
I do not think the problem is that we have not articulated the upsides. I think people actually believe us. They hear, ‘AI may cure your cancer,’ and they think, ‘That sounds great.’
I think we, as an industry, have failed to explain how people stay in control of determining the future at every step, and how people can still have a meaningful life in all the ways we care about.”
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From "CNBC Television" YouTube channel, (link in comment)
@thsottiaux it used to be fine but lately trips when attempting to use in-app browser, local servers. it did good spinning up headless chrome instances to test/take screenshots today. nice, but it wastes a lot of tokens on these other relatively basic tasks. inconsistent failure patterns.
I haven't done a very good job of documenting all of the things I've used vibecoding/AI for. But the beauty of it is when I have a problem that I need solved, I can code up a solution in seconds.
Pretty sick. This is with Opus 4.8 high with thinking off. Generated very fast, used about 3% of 5 hour quota on Claude Pro. Making the GIF took longer than making the towers, lol.
I had early access to Opus 4.8. Was impressed by it.
Here is Opus 4.8's one shot of "create a visually interesting shader that can run in twigl, make it like an infinite city of neo-gothic towers partially drowned in a stormy ocean with large waves" (this is all done with math)
My take… deconstruction, multi shot prompt engineering and cross model revision are going to be huge unlocks.
Exploring the solution to a complex problem will necessitate playing to models strengths, or at least giving them a chance to be part of a larger process.
There is a lot being written about the stylistic tells of AI writing (em-dashes, etc.) but this paper looks at AI narrative tells
Fascinating differences between AI & human narrative, and asking AI to write in different styles doesn't do much to change it https://t.co/azkRHz34NQ