Toots from 2023-11-29
“When the system first rolled out, everyone knew what sauces went on what sandwiches because ev…
“When the system first rolled out, everyone knew what sauces went on what sandwiches because everyone had been used to talking to each other.
Over time, however, new staff got hired who hadn’t worked in the old way.”
https://improvingflow.com/2023/11/25/premature-optimization.html
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“There are times for collaborative synchronous work but this cannot be the dominant mode of wor…
“There are times for collaborative synchronous work but this cannot be the dominant mode of work. Unfortunately, it is how many organizations are structured. As a result, deep work is done on evenings and weekends and often the best workers burn out over time.”
https://jarche.com/2023/11/nothing-time-is-for-deep-work/
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“The main problem with AI generated text is that most people literally cannot tell if a given b…
“The main problem with AI generated text is that most people literally cannot tell if a given bit of text is AI generated or not. It’s about as good as random chance for most people. This is why I think that AI generated text is going to be the next big thing in content farms.”
https://xeiaso.net//blog/birth-death-seo/
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“Together, we developed a sense of what the A.I. could do. Ben, who had more experience with it…
“Together, we developed a sense of what the A.I. could do. Ben, who had more experience with it than I did, seemed able to get more out of it in a stroke. As he later put it, his own neural network had begun to align with GPT-4’s.”
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/11/20/a-coder-considers-the-waning-days-of-the-craft