I think AGI will come from a model that rewards reusing circuits. Basically, the more uses a circuit can have, especially in consequitive similar but different questions, the better an abst     See More     See Less

Another great question is what is more rewarding: reprompting and iterating for an hour and not being able to feel any sense of accomplishment for the resulting code, or writing it yourself     See More pride in and feeling good about your work.
We're not just productivity machines. If the work sucks, I don't care how much faster it is with these tools. I'll quit and go do something worthwhile instead.    See Less

you should read "Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitives" that came out Jan. 15th.     See Less

Except Claude is garbage. It just pulls shit from reddit and makes shit up.     See Less

14:50 sounds like dialectics     See Less

4:41 if it’s too easy but takes time I probably wouldn’t do it. Or hate doing it.     See Less

11:30 too bad most people’s jobs don’t seem to have a purpose.     See Less

k automate my job and pay me, coward     See Less

AI, in accounting at least, is not all that it is hyped up to be. It makes more mistakes in reconciling bank accounts than normal. It is far more efficient to actually put in ‘if… then�     See More ts in a VBA enabled excel file than letting AI do it.    See Less

Most of my white collar day is spent in meetings working with other people from multiple companies who can often be unpredictable with the best route forward often being very nuanced involvi     See More skills I really think that AI has no chance at all for a long time given this. I don’t think AI companies have a good grasp of what goes into a lot of white collar work    See Less