This is nice that you know about the issue and are working on it. I really appreciate all the new "Get api key" buttons across google ai products that already makes it much easier than setting up a cloud project and getting credentials json files.
But I do think it's a general problem with Google products that the solution is always to build a new one. There are already like 8 ways to use and pay for Google AI and that adds to the complexity of getting set up, so adding a new simpler better option might make that all worse instead of better
It's really nice to see long-form, obviously human-written blogs from people deep into the LLM space - maybe us writers will be around for a while still in spite of all the people saying we've been replaced.
I've started increasing the number of jokes in my blog posts to make it sound more obviously human-written: to be honest I was expecting some "why is this so unserious" complaints.
The site is in his name but it has a lot of content - I don't think he writes it all. The stuff I've seen from him directly is mainly in German so I think often people on his team write e.g. English summaries and quote what he said as a translation
Didn't look a lot into this but I think the fact that humans are willing to do this in the "cents per thousand" or something range means that it's really hard to get much interest in automating it
Haha I've asked LLMs to avoid fluff in a prompt and gotten exactly a heading like that one wkth "(no fluff)" before.
Otherwise I've followed DeepNote since they started. I agree with other comments that it's icky to announce yourself as a successor to someone else's project, but always nice to have more options for open source
I think that's an over-simplistic view - at the moment there are many, many software engineers hired by companies who are betting on AI being madly profitable. If those expectations change, we could see more cascading layoffs, which will mean those engineers will go looking at more traditional places like banks, which means they'll stop hiring, which means it'll be harder to someone who is looking for a new job to find one, even though not all jobs have yet been automated.
True, besides actual software engineering is small part of overall IT/computer related work. There are far more analysts, managers(project, program, IT, agile etc), QA, operations and so on. So engineers who employers think are capable of leveraging AI and do 20 s/w engineer worth of work with 5 people will remain in demand for time being.
Even without outright layoffs one can see how fast leverage of average IT engineer is disappearing. After 20 years of experience my value or feedback matters less than when I was 4 years into paid job. And it has far less to with AI so far.
Most custom work of past is just a library, component or framework to use. And those are mandated to be used as it much easier to hire/replace teams to work on those.
Now It may be always be true to have reusable components created but growth of IT industry kept people employed in ever greater numbers. However now it seems to be reaching limit. Leaving aside highly visible layoffs by US tech giants, growth is fading in countries like India with huge IT offshoring workforce. There are millions upon millions jobless fresh graduates waiting to get jobs with some IT degree.
Kinda sad if 3000 words is now considered "too long to read through rather use as reference" but some interesting points, I'd be keen to see an even longer version with actual examples instead of placeholder ones.
Hello, I am the author of the article and I can explain a few things.
First of all thank you for your words about the content.
I get why you might feel that way. English isn’t my first language, so I sometimes use GPT to help me polish phrasing or find a smoother rhythm for certain lines.
But the ideas, structure, and all the writing direction are mine. I don’t ask it to write articles for me. It just help me express things more clearly. I treat it more like an editor than a writer.
Is it really an LMM? It's not like real humans can't write the same style, LLMs have picked up on an existing stylistic tendency. I hate these patterns as much as anyone, and I have noticed them since long before transformers were a thing.
Netflix made money by bundling, now others are making money by unbundling.
We'll get another netflix era in the next decade or so
reply