I recently moved off Hugo as well to a DIY Python static site generator for my own blog. The trouble I had was I found it frustrating to have to learn how to do something the Hugo way when I knew I could quickly code it in a language I was already familiar with.
I think it comes from a marketing exaggeration of what the card could do. None of the cards of the day could actually produce their own box art (in real time) but the art implies they could in a way they can get away with. It follows the tradition of box art on 8-bit games wildly exaggerating what the in-game graphics might look like and they'd sometimes post a tiny disclaimer in the corner.
Or related: there's no one to nag you about going to get that funny ache checked out. Men particularly are notoriously reluctant to go to a doctor for various reasons but a worried partner might persuade them.
Indeed. It'll be a gravy train for one of the usual big consulting companies. Billions of much needed cash will be wasted and nothing of any value will be achieved.
This ID system is touted as somehow stopping illegal boat crossings (the current political hot topic in the UK) because it will apparently somehow stop illegal work. This is obvious nonsense. Employers are already supposed to do ID checks and face heavy fines for employing illegal workers. Illegal employers obviously don't bother with such checks and pay cash in hand. They will continue not to bother doing any such checks, with or without ID cards.
A great deal of illegal work is actually caused by arm's-length employers such as food delivery apps and other similar platforms. These companies already do fairly robust ID checks. What happens though is people rent out their accounts (often for surprisingly small amounts of money) with the ID check already passed to illegals who actually do the work. The problem is nothing to do with ID checks, it's the fact that the employer never sees the employee in person and doesn't verify on a day-to-day basis who is actually completing the work.
It's very powerful for various parts of VFX workflows. It's not gonna just be a full prompted shot, but more a means of creating and manipulating smaller elements in a shot with much less manual labor than before.
I can't speak for the industry side but as a consumer, I've noticed many cable TV ads in hotel rooms now are clearly using AI generated video. It looks like shit.
This is going to be the "bad chromakey" of this particular time period in terms of weirdly prolific visuals in media. Or if you prefer, the ads you used to see on late-night TV that were clearly broadcast from a poor quality VHS.
Cheap bullshit has always hung around our media apparatus, and it's just that: cheap bullshit. Tbh I just note it in the same way I've always done: well, that's a company I'm going to avoid doing business with if at all possible.
Now you mention it, I can see there's a lot of demand for very cheap video ads on YouTube and such and I can see those kind of productions using AI slop and not really caring. I was just surprised by the calibre of client the poster above mentioned, such as HBO and Netflix and such. That sounded more like AI video making an impact in higher class professional work.
I mean I'm sure they would LIKE to use AI. What sane company wouldn't explore the possibility? That said I think any serious creative team is going to run into headaches with it really, really quickly and give up on it.
It's all about the story that's sold to the higher ups. The higher you go up the corporate ladder, the vaguer the understanding of the technology. The big boss hears from a Microsoft salesman that AI = you can fire 20% of your workforce, but never questions exactly how that works. They probably never got sold static analysis in that way. That was just some kind of tool that somehow helps with that mumbo jumbo that developers spend all day typing. There's no story there that inspires a manager. AI = cut costs is music to the ears of the board. So then pressure gets applied to those lower down.
Something similar was going on with cloud a few years ago. The story was if you get cloud you can get rid of those expensive infrastructure people and it will all be so much more reliable. So the big boss gets a cloud strategy and foists it on those lower down. There's also pressure to be an on-trend boss. If all the other boss' are getting into it, then you need to as well.
I think it is worth really deeply understanding that the bosses hate us. Capital has only begrudgingly involved labor when forced to. It is no surprise to me that genai hype happened after the largest increase in general labor power in recent memory (post 2020 labor market) and a decade long increase in the labor power among software engineers.
The bosses have seen pay and benefits go up and up and up. They've seen people jump between companies, taking institutional knowledge with them. They need the job market to crater so they can re-exert control in the relationship. LLMs are fucking catnip to this belief system. "You mean I do need to deal with those people that I have to hire and train and pay? I hate those guys! Awesome!"
As a person who has worked at different layers of corporate structures I find this statement mildly offending and mostly inaccurate. In terms of emotions expressed by those reported to, I've witnessed many, such as various feelings of satisfaction and control, to an air of superiority and at times even contempt. But hate was quite unusual and would more often go the other way around, together with envy.
I don't get the confusion in these comments. Unless we're talking about micro companies, people who own the business don't run it, and even those who run it usually rarely have direct contact with engineers.
I’m seeing this second hand at the Fortune 500 my spouse works for.
They are an enterprise SaaS company in SV. Where they have machine learning software that they have been selling for more than a decade, it’s all been rebranded as AI. That’s fair enough from a sales perspective, I guess. What’s odd is that their C-suite and SVPs are pressuring everyone to use LLMs everywhere, for pretty much everything, and none of them seem to understand why it’s only that level of employee that’s seeing any benefit or expressing any interest. My spouse has reported that the running joke across the company is that the executives have jobs that can be done by LLMs, but no one else does. The ICs could not be less interested, and even if they were, legal promulgated a policy against actually putting anything confidential into any LLM other than Copilot in Azure, which the whole workforce reportedly only really uses for summarizing the increasing number of meetings that are perceived as a waste of IC time. A lot of those meetings are “let’s use AI”.
The bit about legal is critical. Im specifically working on "how do we use LLMs in a data-safe way?". Most of the huge gains require exposing information of at least a semi-sensitive nature. For now, that's probably going to shake out as "Copilot or self-host models". I believe that the infrastructure available to self-host at an enterprise level will start growing rapidly due to this trust problem.
Copilot gets the legal nod because Microsoft already has a very, very long history of being trusted with essentially all of an organizations most sensitive information, they have a lot to work with there when it comes to convincing execs that they can safely handle sensitive data in the cloud. (Im am not convinced of that personally).
I agree. Especially with Microsoft, it seems as soon as Satya Nadella promised security was their first priority and he’d stake his compensation on it, no sooner did they get distracted once again.
If you keep leaving the barn door open, eventually your staying power won’t be enough. On the other hand, I’ve stopped thinking to myself “this must be the big one” when it comes to their more egregious recent failures.
> I believe that the infrastructure available to self-host at an enterprise level will start growing rapidly due to this trust problem.
I thought it would go in this direction more rapidly. With the way even the hyperscalers have had trouble securing enough GPUs for existing demand, I’m left wondering if regardless of technical merits, the bubble is going to burst because of basic real world logistical challenges. I’ve actually heard it said in hushed tones that (paraphrased) “the money isn’t the problem. There just aren’t enough GPUs.”
For awhile I’ve assumed that coprocessors or leveraging GPUs at the local level will be the only viable course long-term for widespread adoption. Most actual need for AI/ML technologies aren’t “consume the whole Internet” scale.
That's staggering that 50% are using LLMs. Have you tried making a statement in the job ad such as "in-person technical interview will be required for this position". Of course you may or may not choose to conduct the in-person interview in reality but the threat might cause the cheaters to self-select out.
Yeah it's probably an ancient web site. This was commonplace back in the day when Internet Explorer had 90%+ market share. Lazy web devs couldn't be bothered to support other browsers (or didn't know how) so just added a message demanding you use IE as opposed to fixing the problems with the site.
I think the sentiment was to keep your content (and audience) portable, not specifically that you don't rely on anyone else's services. If you post everything on Twitter and Twitter decides they don't like you, then that's the end of you. If you host on a personal domain and your rented web host decides to block you, there's plenty more options and you can take your audience with you and they will never know the difference.
I know it was, but the click-baity headline makes it seem like you're becoming independent of the whims of private companies, which you are very much not if you're renting a host somewhere. You're definitely not a property owner, you might be a domain owner (renter still, I don't know of any domains which you can pay for and keep forever).
As long as the services you're renting are commoditizated, you are independent of their whims.
You can easily replace a VPS provider with a different provider that will give you exactly the same service. You can't replace Facebook with a different Facebook.
My guess is the average technical book is probably in the hundreds of copies over a reasonable lifetime. Mine's sold 91 copies in 5 months. It's a book about how machine learning works. Unknown author, I have no social media and zero advertising budget. It's just Amazon organic listings. The economics are definitely not good but I didn't write it for money. I wrote it mainly for more existential reasons that I wanted to put my words out there and leave something behind in the world.
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