You don’t need to read the code if you have a robust test suit to validate the output. The article implies testing is the new “reading”. If I spend 10 minutes reading code to find an edge case bug, I have lost the benefit of using AI. AI code is legacy code the moment is generated because I can’t tell why some lines were chosen, so the only way for me to add more features or refactor legacy code is by being very rigorous with testing.
“Microsoft paid photographer Charles O’Rear a confidential amount for the Windows XP wallpaper “Bliss,” but it is widely reported to have been in the “low six figures,” meaning over $100,000.”
Charles should have asked for MS stock instead.
“In 2005, Facebook offered David Choe about $60,000 to paint murals at its office. Instead of cash, he chose Facebook stock. When Meta Platforms went public in 2012, his shares were estimated to be worth around $200 million.”
The wikipedia says Microsoft acquired full rights after Bill Gate's Corbis acquired the photographers company, so that is a complete forgery/hallucination?
The Wikipedia article seems to say the same as above:
> O'Rear made it available as a stock photo through Westlight, which was bought by Bill Gates' Corbis in May 1998.[36][43] The photograph was initially titled Bucolic Green Hills.[42][44] By the time of its acquisition, Westlight was estimated to have been one of the largest stock photo agencies in the United States. Corbis had previously hired O'Rear to photograph wine auctions in Burgundy in 1995,[45] and after the acquisition, they digitized Westlight's images.[36] Microsoft contacted O'Rear through Corbis in 2000, wanting to buy full rights to the photograph.[40]: 3:37, 3:50 [6] O'Rear had to personally deliver the film to Microsoft in Seattle due to delivery services declining because of its high value. The Napa Valley Register reported that O'Rear was paid "in the low six figures".[6][40]: 3:57 He had signed a confidentiality agreement and cannot disclose the exact amount.[2][46] Microsoft renamed the photograph to Bliss and chose it as the default wallpaper of Windows XP.[6][37]
The Frank Bourassa story is pretty incredible. There’s a TV series but I recommend listening to his interviews. I think NPR has one that is pretty good. The level of planning, logistics and craft the guy put into his illegal money printing shop is admirable. Extremely intelligent and driven person. He could have succeeded in any other legal business if wanted to, but looks like it would not be the same thrill for him. His counterfeit US bills were so good that allegedly some of it is still in circulation with silent approval of the US government.
I have to produce a great deal of documentation at work for our customers, most of it regulatory and compliance assessments.
Some of the sources I need to use come from agencies in the government or working with the government and are often over a thousand pages long.
So AI has been incredibly helpful here because a lot of what I need to do is map this huge bureaucratic set of guidelines and policies to each customer’s particular situation.
Aware of the sloppy nature of LLMs I created my own workflow that resembles more coding than document drafting.
I use Codex, VSCode and plain markdown, I don’t use MS Word or Copilot like all my other colleagues.
I invest a great deal of time still doing manual labor like researching and selecting my sources, which I then make available for Codex to use as its single source of truth.
I start with a skill that generates the outline which often is longer than it should be. Sometimes I get say a 18 sections outline and I ask Codex to cut it in half. Then I ask for a preliminary draft of each section (each on a separate markdown) and read through and update as necessary, before I ask the agent to develop each section in full, then proof read and update again.
When I’m satisfied I merge all the sections into one single markdown and run another skill to check for repetition, ambiguity, length, etc and usually a few legitimate improvements are recommended.
The whole process can still take me several days to produce a 20-30 pages compliance document, which gets read, verified and approved by myself and others in my team before it goes out.
The productivity gains are pretty obvious, but most importantly I think the content is of better quality for the customer.
Believable and not shocking. LLMs literally may have saved my sons and potentially her mother too by allowing us to fact check a lot of non sense data and scare tactics by a group of at least 5 different doctors ambushing us to make a life changing decision in minutes. The problem is doctors, at least in the US, prioritize liability exposure over patients long term outcomes. Let’s say you need an intervention where two options A and B are available to you. A carries 1% risk of complications but a great outcome. Option B has 0.1% risk of complications but once you are discharged the short term effects are challenging and long term effects not well understood. Well, 10/10 times doctors will suggest option B and will do anything they can to nudge you into making that choice, like not telling you the absolute numbers and constantly using the word “death”. They also lie about the outcomes, because again, once you accept the procedure, sign and are sent home, they have nothing to do with you.
For all the doubt and negativity here I just want to say “good job” to you. Way to take matters into your own hands and protect your love ones. Haters gonna hate but you did it.
Lol, sharing specifics famously a comfortable and smart thing to do with medical information, doctor. This kind of attitude is why the moment it's viable, every F-student with a doctorate is going to get what they deserve.
The opportunity to compete with an autocomplete engine that does their job better on average, instead of coasting on their credentials and hurting real people in the process.
Is the group of at least 5 different doctors ambushing you, in the room with us right now? Was it 5, or more like 15, or 50? Would it have been more or less frightening if it was a group of the same doctor, but like 40 of him?
I don’t know if you’ve just never had bad healthcare, but this story does not seem unbelievable to me.
I’ve had doctors try to convince me not to pursue medical care, that problems of people close to me were not real and purely psychological, and I’ve personally required emergency surgery due to inaction. In every case there were obvious signs and symptoms.
Doctors are not good at their jobs. In the US, we’ve done a particularly stupid combination of forcing them to incur legal liability and intermediating everything with insurance, both of which impact the care people actually receive.
People already keep their eyes on their phones when driving, so it’s not like car screens are introducing a new hazard. If anything, they are an opportunity to replace some of the functions of the phone and make them safer, understanding most people will never exercise safe driving habits.
The answer to "some drivers are bad, and look at their phones while driving" is not "let's give them a different screen to look at". It is to take away the driver's licenses of people who are stupid enough to look at phones while driving.
Looting is done for fun too. It must suck to have kids show up for practice in the morning and some of the essential gear is gone. It doesn’t matter if it is inexpensive to replace, you still have to cancel class and take a day or two up replace it, file a police report, etc
Right, but why is a Flock camera a better approach than: insurance, on-prem camera, etc. The Flock camera doesn't prevent theft. It increases remote viewing (especially if it's used in a demo to strangers they aren't customers yet, doubly especially if those strange customers are doing it because the might want to see young gymnasts)
normally a condition of insurance is that you have CCTV and other preventative systems in place.
> The Flock camera doesn't prevent theft.
Not directly, but it does increase the chance of the perpetrator getting caught (not flock, the camera) in theory this means that less people are about to steal/break stuff.
Also sign posts with saying that "this place has surveillance" tends to reduce opportunists.
On a side note I would recommend volunteering at a community centre/sports/scouts/library. First its extremely rewarding, and secondly you learn about how things are in the real world "for the normals"
At least for private households, it's not mandatory to have surveillance cameras at home. If you do have one though, they will demand footage and can deny your claim if it was off, or worse. https://youtu.be/UMIwNiwQewQ?t=903
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