Daniel Jalkut
Mac and iOS developer; founder of Red Sweater Software (MarsEdit, FastScripts) and co-host of the Core Intuition podcast.
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Their wordsBecause any of the candidates are acceptable, biasing against one and towards another is as likely to improve the writing as it is to diminish it.
↗AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writingbitsplitting.org 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordswritten words come from, or are at least edited by, humans. AI output isn't writing, and the internal, work-in-progress draft by one most certainly is not.
↗AI Can’t Adulterate its Own Writingbitsplitting.org 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 5 months earlier
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Their wordsI believe it will prove to have a positive impact on humanity. It will accelerate productivity in virtually every field, lead to insights in science and medicine, and offer accessibility advantages to millions of people.
↗The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know Itbitsplitting.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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AI-generated code should not count as finished work until a human has reviewed and corrected it.
Their wordsA mantra I've been repeating to myself lately is that an AI's code can not be counted as "work" until a human has reviewed it and fixed any problems.
↗The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know Itbitsplitting.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsThe time may come, perhaps even soon, when AI takes over programming completely. But in the mean time, a programmer who embraces AI, yet is skeptical about everything it creates, is better-equipped than any comparably-skilled human in programming history.
↗The Beginning of Programming as We’ll Know Itbitsplitting.org 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 11 months earlier
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Their wordsit has never been easier to maintain a "self-hosted", yet highly reliable web service.
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Their wordsPeople don't like fluctuating prices. Businesses especially don't like fluctuating prices.
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Most companies with many employees started out as very small companies with only a few people.
Their wordsMost companies with 10, 100, or 1000 customer support agents started as companies with 1, 2, or 3 support agents.
- 23 months earlier
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OpenAIchat interfacesMicrosoft
Their wordstechnology is advancing so quickly that the absence of something like ChatGPT and something like Copilot in these products seems likely to be viewed as major shortcoming in the near future, if it isn't seen that way already.
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Apple's AI offerings will initially lag behind dedicated tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot.
Their wordsApple Intelligence won't be as good as ChatGPT or GitHub Copilot, at least not to start with.