Hadley Wickham
Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.
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Their wordsWhile the output might look polished, it represents zero human effort, making it slop.
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One of AI's most dangerous features is that it destroys our heuristics for judging effort and trust.
Their wordsI think this is one of the most dangerous features of AI: it trashes our existing heuristics for effort and trust.
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Their wordsFirst: it should never be on the critical path for anyone. I’m trying to generate a smile or a laugh, not add work to someone’s plate. Second: it must be clear that it’s slop.
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Their wordsI strongly believe that you should never inflict AI writing on other humans, so I use a skill to ensure that Kimi creates all the PRs as drafts, accompanied by a clear statement about their provenance (AI created, like this one).
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Their wordsOverall it feels like search has been steadily declining for the last 10 years, thanks to content creators who chase high rankings with low quality writing in order to make money from advertising.
↗AI outside of worksubstack.hadley.nz 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI expect the same content rot will eventually come for AI results, but for now the quality is generally much better.
↗AI outside of worksubstack.hadley.nz 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe first thing: no matter how you feel about AI, the genie is out of the bottle and it’s not going back in.
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Their wordsAnd it’s all built on the theft of intellectual property on an unprecedented, industrial scale.
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Their wordsYou are responsible for the work that you and AI do together.
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Their wordsAt the end of the day, I think the best metaphor for AI is that it’s an amplifier.
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Using an LLM mainly through a chatbot on the web or a phone misses at least 90% of its value.
Their wordsBut the most important thing I want to tell you is that if your primary way of using an LLM is through a chatbot interface on the web or your phone, you are missing out on at least 90% of the goodness.
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Their wordsIf you’re a data scientist, you should learn to program with LLMs, because they give you data science superpowers.
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Their wordsIf there’s one word you remember from this talk, it should be parquet, because parquet files are like CSV files but basically better in every possible way.
- 3 years earlier
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Prefer common existing data structures over custom ones, even if they fit slightly badly.
Their wordsGenerally, I think it’s better to prefer common existing data structures over custom data structures, even if slightly ill-fitting.
↗The tidy tools manifestotidyverse.tidyverse.org 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsR is a functional programming language; embrace it, don’t fight it.
↗The tidy tools manifestotidyverse.tidyverse.org 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsComputer efficiency is a secondary concern because the bottleneck in most data analysis is thinking time, not computing time.
↗The tidy tools manifestotidyverse.tidyverse.org 3rd of 3 in this piece