I have the same opinion, but my worry with this attitude is that it's going to hold me back in the long run.
A common thread in articles about developers using AI is that they're not impressed at first but then write more precise instructions and provide context in a more intuitive manner for the AI to read and that's the point at which they start to see results.
Would these principles not apply to regular developers as well? I suspect that most of my disappointment with these tools is that I haven't spend enough time learning how to use them correctly.
With Claude Code you can tell it what it did wrong. It's a bit hit-or-miss as to whether it will take your comments on board (or take them too literally) but I do think it's too powerful a tool to just ignore.
I don't want someone to just come and eat my cake because they've figured out how to make themselves productive with it.
I think of current state LLMs as precocious but green assistants that are sometimes useful but often screw up. It requires a significant amount of hand holding, still usually a net positive in my workflow but only (arbitrarily) a modest productivity bump (e.g. 10-15%). I feel like if I can get better at reigning in LLMs I can improve this productivity enhancement a bit more, but the idea that we can wholesale replace technical people is not realistic yet.
If I were a non-tech, non-specialist and/or had no business skills/experience and my job was mostly office admin I would be retraining however, because those jobs may be over except as vanity positions.
You don't even need to consider an ally being a bad actor. When Ukraine was invaded, wheat prices (to name one) in Europe shot up. England in particular has fairly significant food security challenges.
I think the key difference is that they perform a search of the foods in Macrofactor's database which means that you're more likely to get a good estimate.
From someone who weighed and scanned a lot of foods, it has really improved the workflow
This mentality is why rail is always destined to fail in the US. That mentality didn't stop China, which has a comparable land area to the continental United States and allows it to benefit from highly efficient cargo operations all over the country.
But if you want to keep the France comparison, let's compare a journey from Paris to Marseille with a journey from San Francisco to Los Angeles:
Paris to Marseille:
- by car: 7h30m (773km/480mi)
- by train: 3h11m direct for 94 EUR/103 USD with luggage and WiFi, amongst others
San Francisco to Los Angeles:
- by car: 6h (613km/381mi) - note that I'm checking the route times at 8:24 BST and so it's night time in the US - hence less traffic.
- by train (and bus): 8h30m with a change for 61 EUR/67 USD
The SF to LA route covers less distance and requires a change, so the passenger would travel 6h by train and then a further 2h on a bus - and when you compare that to driving it doesn't make any sense to ever pick public transport.
I do think there's more to it than just Americans not liking rail travel or preferring their cars. To build significant passenger rail infrastructure requires coordination at state government levels with all the stakeholders; funding; purcahsing land; technology to build modern and efficient railways etc. I don't believe the US has the capability to just build rail anymore - it would require significant investment in skills and manufacturing to increase capability to the point where it will be able to build the type of modern railway they would need to actually be a viable alternative.
It's agonizingly slow (I used to take it to college in SLO) but between SF and LA you could take the Coast Starlight (you'd BART to Oakland first). It's 12 hours though. https://www.amtrak.com/coast-starlight-train . I used to take the Chinatown busses and they were faster, or ride share on Craigslist (or, really aging myself here - remember Zimride?)
My interpretation was that adolescent refers to the maturity with respect to life experiences.
The set of life experiences that a bachelor can experience is smaller than the set of life experiences that a married man with children can experience.
I don't think this is a particularly offensive thing to say, but instead, given that she's from a group whose voice has been historically subdued, I think it's a witty reparatee to refer to that philosophy as "adolescent". I don't think she's calling bachelors adolescent, but for the word of a bachelor with most likely more limited life experience, I do think it's fair to call out that it perhaps isn't the most rounded point of view.
This is a real shame. My favourite experience with photospheres was taking some with my old Google Nexus 5X.
I took quite a lot in Central London and at my family home. On a later trip to my parents' rural village in India, I brought along a Google Cardboard and spent hours showing the villagers our life in London.
These are people who live very simple lives as farmers and farm hands. They don't know much about the outside world and their lives are very much dictated by the humdrum of life within their small communities. Using the headset was perhaps the only way these people would get a chance to stand outside if the Houses of Parliament, or get a panoramic view of London from Waterloo Bridge.
I know that VR videos exist, but the ease of being able to take photos at home and giving people a VR experience to show them how we live on the other side of the world was something very special. It's one of the experiences that really shaped my view on what technology could do and how it can really help people understand one another.
That same thing is possible today, but I'd probably need a 360 camera and a different VR headset since Google Cardboard and Daydream were discontinued.
I think this is a great idea, but my concern is that these boy racers tend to stick to residential areas where you don't often get speed cameras, which makes me think that noise cameras will also be placed in areas that these people won't be driving.
This is just a simple demo but it's really cool how simple and easy it is in practice.