Answers like this are sort of what makes me wonder what most engineers are smoking when they think AI isn’t valuable.
I don’t think the outright dismissal of AI is smart. (And, OP, I don’t mean to imply that you are doing that. I mean this generally.)
I also suspect people who level these criticisms have never really used a frontier LLM.
Feeding in a whole codebase that I’m familiar with, and hearing the LLM give good answers about its purpose and implementation from a completely cold read is very impressive.
Even if the LLM never writes a line of code - this is still valuable, because helping humans understand software faster means you can help humans write software faster.
It makes sense that 2024 had more travel than 2023, given Covid. But a longer timeline view would be nice, as would measurements in percent rather than numbers.
Today MCP added Streamable HTTP [0] which is a huge step forward as it doesn't require an "always-on" connection to remote HTTP servers.
However, if you look at the specification it's clear bringing the LSP-style paradigm to remote HTTP servers is adding a bunch of extra complexity. This is a tool call, for example:
Which traditionally would just be HTTP POST to `/get_weather` with `{ "location": "New York" }`.
I've made the suggestion to remove some of this complexity [1] and fall back to just a traditional HTTP server, where a session can be negotiated with an `Authorization` header and we rely on traditional endpoints / OpenAPI + JSON Schema endpoint definitions. I think it would make server construction a lot easier and web frameworks would not have to materially be updated to adhere to the spec -- perhaps just adding a single endpoint.
It was Gottfried Leibniz who envisaged the end of philosophic disputes, replacing argument with calculation.
"if controversies were to arise, there would be no more need of disputation between two philosophers than between two calculators. For it would suffice for them to take their pencils in their hands and to sit down at the abacus, and say to each other (and if they so wish also to a friend called to help): Let us calculate."
It's interesting assumption that by virtue of being AI generated, it's considered bad/fake. 20 years ago, people hated how photoshop changed the photo design industry, NotebookLM is knocking on the door now.
Can't speak for others... but I generally pay for a few streaming services at a time. I find a lot of the UX just poor to very bad. I will favor those with shows that I watch. I still torrent the shows themselves as it's easier (for me) to do that then to deal with the various apps on my Shield (they're still there, as my SO seems to use them for random watching).
The networks can still track (to some extent) what shows are popular as torrents, and use that to inform their other advertising efforts. A break out (good) show may show indicators on torrents from word of mouth outside their network, and they can then feature that show in their banner areas.
These aren't likely "profit" directly, but they are and can be factors. Another point is loyalty from those who are able to pay, when they are able to pay. Assuming prohibitive costs are what is mainly keeping people from paying for the content.
> Mr. Dalio returned to run Bridgewater earlier this year after stepping back to a mentor role six years ago.
Is what's driving almost all of his new found desire for a unified AI to run everything.
Here you have a man who by any measure has been wildly successful, he tried stepping back and letting other take over but ended up finding that the team he left in charge didn't make the exact decisions he would have.
If the story ended there it wouldn't be in any way surprising, who hasn't left a team and second guessed the decisions that the new leaders have made.
It turns out that when you are worth 15 Billion one of the things you can do is hire a shit load of AI experts, like one of the heads of IBM's Watson team, to build an AI to make decisions based on WWRDD, "What would Ray Dalio Do"?
Since his first retirement failed, this is his new take on how to have his second retirement go smoother. Just build an AI that bases all decisions on the Bridge water principles that he wrote down years ago.
As an aside, he recently let Tony Robbins publish his ideal portfolio, the all weather portfolio. It's actually a pretty strong portfolio for the average person.
A fairly close analogy in English would be to randomly sprinkle the word "fuck" in your speech.
I was once speaking to a good friend of mine here, in English.
"Do you want to go out for yakitori?"
"Go fuck yourself!"
"... switches to Japanese Have I recently done anything very major to offend you?"
"No, of course not."
"Oh, OK, I was worried. So that phrase, that's something you would only say under extreme distress when you had maximal desire to offend me, or I suppose you could use it jokingly between friends, but neither you nor I generally talk that way."
"I learned it from a movie. I thought it meant "No.""
Chinese software always has such a design language:
- prepaid and then use credit to subscribe
- strange serif font
- that slider thing for captcha
But I'm going to try it out now.