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The task is very simple: Thousands of super fast fairly good contractors show up at your company's front door. You can't really trust them with data, they do occasionally make mistakes, they have to learn everything about your organization and product from scratch, and btw they leave in 10 minutes again.

If you can design your organization to handle this, you gain superpowers. And of course this is a management problem rather than coding exercise.


Interesting analogy but inaccurate. The time AI can spend on tasks these days is much, much longer than 10 minutes.

I think you missed the point. No analogy is perfect.

The art is to try and rape your contractors, give them prep work to do on their own time, then treat them like employees.

I don't fall for that anymore though.


Because there are so many different jobs all over the place. Job boards are full of people crying out for help. Every morning I wake up to a literal sea of emails from hiring managers looking for my aid. I only choose those jobs that look interesting and only work with the people who pay and treat me well. /s

Use your existing desired style as exemplars

AI is definitely the loop. Humans are at the top (for now) making overall decisions and at the bottom (trivialities that the AI doesn't have access to or requires physical access). Everything in the middle is a black ever-growing and expanding blob / orb.

Some people reluctantly position themselves solely at the bottom or at the top.


Not sure I see what would displace humans from the top. AI keeps getting better at the middle bit. Sure, that means you can be lazier with instructions from the top. But surely we see diminishing returns from that- you can only RL so hard, you need increasingly large inputs to create sufficiently specific outputs


So slowness was is the reason for both old games and LLMs to use the streaming text method. Makes sense!


Haha, spot on, but I'm still wondering how specifically "earns it keep" became such a thing. I think it's a Claude specific phenomenon for me.


It's all about what transports well and what doesn't.


Wtf what a bad website; first it coerces me to accept cookies (or pay!) if I wish to continue reading. After this, it let me scroll a little bit before presenting its next move: create account if you want to continue reading.

Why wasn't that just part of the original modal? I wonder what would be the third modal, does it want all my children too?


I am now notoriously fast at speedrunning the various airlines and ticketing sites.

Wonder if that could be a YouTube Channel


Supply md5 hash of first name + last name + seed when buying, computed manually by yourself.

Upon arrival at the venue you show photo id and a sheet of DIN A4 paper containing the hash and seed, and the Ticket Man will verify.

Side joke: One of the German ticket sites, maybe eventim, stated on the PDF that it must be printed on DIN A4 paper.


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