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I have no particular view on the claim that cancer is cured, but I think it's pretty clear that the approval lag means that at any given time there are many things which are "cured", but where the cure isn't yet available publicly. This is effectively unavoidable.
Lots of cynicism about this quote from Amodei, but senior engineers I talk to all say pretty much the same thing - humans writing code by hand has fallen off a cliff in the last month or two. It's not zero, but it's on a clear slope!
AI is not a flaky senior employee - it's an utterly brilliant intern.
It drives me nuts any time I read someone comparing the unreliability of AI agents to that of humans.
Man, I don't know what type of circus you've worked on, but in my 20+ years of professional career, I've never worked with people as dumb and as unreliable as AI.
Brilliant one day. Completely retarded the next one.
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OK, this is nuts.
In Sept 2023, geophysicists over the world started monitoring an odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was recorded in the Arctic, then Antarctica - then everywhere, every 90 seconds, regular as a metronome - for NINE DAYS.
What the HELL?
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The tax treatment in Europe (certainly Ireland, and I think elsewhere too) makes equity compensation really hard to do. Even schemes supposed to make it "easy" are full of complexities that make them hard to deal with in a real startup. Low hanging fruit, if govs will grab it!
This is one the biggest, and most problematic, differences between US and European Tech:
When Skype was acquired it created 11 millionaires.
When PayPal was acquired it created over 100 millionaires.
Skype was acquired for $8bn while PayPal was acquired $1.5bn.
The stock compensation packages between the US and Europe are night and day.
It is changing slowly but there is still a long way to go.
I'm confident this is directionally correct, but less so on the margins. If AI "only" increases unemployment by 5%, or 10%, or 15%, that's still catastrophic! (And the US rust belt is sitting right there as a warning to us all - prosperity can just up and leave)
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Marc Andreessen was wrong about software eating the world, and I see people making the same mistake about AI today. I wrote this almost three years ago and I wouldn't change a word if I were publishing it today.
The tooling right now is terrible for enterprise use. It's getting much, much better, really fast. The difference in personal productivity with something like Claude Cowork properly wired up is night and day - that's not really available for enterprise yet, but it's coming soon.
A big chunk of the US' economic lead over Europe in the past ~20 years has been from software companies. If AI pushes innovation back into the physical world, it's not clear that the US has better cards than Europe. (China probably in the lead over both, if we're honest)
Super important point - you get what you incentivise, and we should desperately want more homegrown success stories. (Although the form of those has never been more uncertain - the prospect of starting/funding a SaaS company today feels very different than even 12 months ago)
Excellent piece from Peter Kinsella in @thecurrency. There are many reasons why Ireland needs a simple, tax-efficient savings scheme, but it will be an opportunity missed if that scheme doesn't provide for financing Irish startup and scale-up companies.
thecurrency.news/articles/21…
The convergence of Engineering and PM roles seems basically inevitable. Not in all cases, but in the same way that "full stack" engineers became default in many scenarios, some sort of "AI Builder" role seems likely to replace separate Eng and PM functions in most contexts.
I'm far from the first to say it, but it's going to be incredibly hard to maintain the ability to judge code quality if you aren't actually writing code regularly. Lots of incredible software engineers around today - seems inevitable AI causes that number to dwindle quickly.
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Engineers Ireland are calling for 2:1 spending on public transport to be brought back in to reduce congestion and car dependency.
It was introduced by the Greens and removed by FF & FG in this government resulting in delays to projects like DART+ and Luas Finglas.
ALT Engineers seek restoration of public transport spending priority Heavy reliance on private cars for travel cannot continue, Engineers Ireland warns
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1/12 Fr. Paddy has a long running column in the Laois Nationalist. His articles are usually harmless messages of love and hope from a Catholic perspective, universal values that everyone could relate to, even if they don't share his faith. However, this week they took a turn
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