Category: Culture
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How AI Stole My Job
The progress of technology over the course of my life has been stunning and the progress of LLMs is vastly outpacing even those previous decades of exponential progress. It’s wild! In the past two to three weeks, my entire approach to coding has been completely upended. To the point that it’s hardly even the same…
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Why would you want to drive behind a slow cyclist?
Whenever I’m engaged in a conversation and the other party is saying something that doesn’t resonate with me, something I don’t get or something that just seems strange, I make an honest effort to put myself in the other person’s shoes. I do research, thought experiments, bounce scenarios off friends, hypothesize with LLMs, etc. I…
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Time Travel
I often think about what it would be like for teenage Ryan to be transported 25 or 30 years into the future… as you do. What aspects of culture or technology would surprise him the most? The two things I come back to over and over again are tattoos and FaceTime. Tattoos I don’t even…