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     Related links: Reddit thread , HN thread     A few thoughts:     I fully understand the schadenfreude on the part of the SWE community. These things are possibly an existential threat to their livelihoods and the negativity is fully understandable if not misguided, but these victory laps seem to be repeating a common pattern of not waiting a couple months(!) before these systems improve, very publicly, from a mix of better models and now actively incremented training data from MSFT employees. This is the worst this system will ever be and looking in the improvement rate of the last few months should teach people to wait a little bit before condemning the effort fruitless     On a tangential note, I wonder if this public effort is somehow related to Github's new updated rate limits ( hn discussion ). All this juicy data PLUS expert human feedback out in the open ready to be used for distillation is an obvious target to upstarts trying to...

A neat approach for sortable versioned filenames tl;dr Add a letter to indicate number of digits: a0, a1 to a9, b10 to b99, c100 to c999, etc. Important disclaimer: I didn't come up with this scheme. I read it in a twitter X thread some time ago and have been using it ever since. I'm sure I bookmarked it, but I lost access to my account 1 So, basically, I know you hate when you're dealing with files and start with important_work.xlsx and then realize that you better version this thing, so you F12 it and add a suffix indicating the version: important_work.xlsx important_work_v2.xlsx That works, so back again to doing your job. Then, after a few back and forth with peers/boss/clients you find yourself with over 10 versions: important_work.xlsx ...

Note: there's no hidden knowledge contained in this post, it's just a reflection on how reading someone's reaction to an analogous situation changed my outlook Like everyone who works in an information job, I have been worried these last few months about how AI would impact my place in the labor force in the coming decade. Even though I didn't get to the depressed extremes we've been seeing on the Internet, I could not shake off the feeling that what I could offer to a company - no, to the whole economy, which just means "other people" - would get a lot less valuable. Come mid January, I wast taking a week off and had taken to read a few books since I read so little non-technical content on a day to day basis. One of these books was "Founders at work" by author and YC co-founder Jessica Livingston. The book is a series of interviews conducted by Jessica with the founders of some of the most important tech companies - sometimes specific products -...