Many apps rushing to ship their next AI app don't use logins. They just ask for your personal API Key. This is probably the future of online identity, tokens instead of username/password.
GPT-4 is so close to creating a universal educational simulator based on just a paragraph prompt. Take a look at this simulated negotiation, with grading and feedback.
Prompt: "I want to do deliberate practice about how to conduct negotiations. You will be my negotiation teacher. You will simulate a detailed scenario in which I have to engage in a negotiation. You will fill the role of one party, I will fill the role of the other. You will ask for my response to in each step of the scenario and wait until you receive it. After getting my response, you will give me details of what the other party does and says. You will grade my response and give me detailed feedback about what to do better using the science of negotiation. You will give me a harder scenario if I do well, and an easier one if I fail."
I did this with GPT-3.5 a month ago and it was nowhere near as good (GPT-4 also seems more willing to give worse grades than GPT-3.5 - which is good)
After massive waves of tech layoffs, companies are somehow finding spare change in their couches and opening roles for Staff Eng roles to catch some of that FAANG talent.
"Focus on finding those opportunities to show impact, not just the hardest technical problems you can find"
The eng ladder is a flawed system, like most, but the opportunities are there if you choose to see them.
As an..
average online banking user
I want to..
secure my online bank account by forcing a password reset every 2 weeks
So that..
I can come up with creative ways to create an alphanumeric phrase with a symbol that isn't one of my previous 10 passwords
Working in tech often means that you wish you could just go into a companies codebase and fix the bugs yourself.
The worst combo is when crucial services have poor UX.
Here are some of the user stories I'd imagine @scotiabank writes for their super "secure" features. π§΅
As an..
average online banking user
I want to..
secure my online bank account with a mandatory 2FA that only uses the @scotiabank mobile app that only sometimes sends the 2FA prompt
So that..
I can access my bank account on the rare occasion I get an actual push notification.