When I was in college I built a chess playing program that I couldn't beat. It wasn't very good, but it was much better than me. The trick is machine learning: teach it the rules, get it to play millions of games against itself and adjust its strategy after each game.
The AI can become better at a learnable skill than those who trained it because the AI can spend zillions of hours practicing
I'm beyond the age of going places that bouncers will ask for my ID, but I have on many occasions gotten away with showing a photo of my passport on my phone when I needed ID at e.g. the post office to collect a package
Who the fuck uses cash lol. I do keep a 20 inside my phone case for emergencies though.
I have a mini card holder that sticks to the back of my phone case (MagSafe) if I'm going somewhere I'll need health care card. Such occasions are extremely rare though, it's just doctor or dental visits
Also if I'm driving somewhere then you gotta bring the car papers with you so my license just lives in the same case as them.
Passport also has its own case/bag if I need to bring it with me for something
Yeah on the one hand I agree with you, for example Claude Enterprise plans are going to lose the subscription option next time they annually renew, which for us isn't for a while yet. On the other hand, the rate that new models are coming out is crazy and prices aren't going up, the result being that every month we're paying less and less per unit of work done. Sonnet 4.6 is as good as Opus 4.5 was but 1/3 cheaper. More and more companies outside the big 3 are becoming realistic contenders. I think if Anthropic start making pay their obviously over inflated API prices they'll just lose a ton of customers to cheaper inference providers. Currently I use Claude Code purely because it's the only harness you're allowed to use on the cheap subscription plan, as soon as that plan goes away I'd jump to a different company's plan, and if they all go away then I'd at least use a better harness (e.g. Pi) and a cheaper inference provider (e.g. DeepSeek). Meanwhile open source models are getting better and better and running our own inference farm is quite viable too
The subscription plans are insanely cheap currently, but won't be forever. Atm you can pay $200/month to get anywhere from 1.2x to 5x faster depending where you are on the learning curve. If people aren't taking advantage of that then it's equivalent to if your office had a team of 10 engineers but only 5 of them are being given any tasks and the others are told to do nothing.
As to people adopting it naturally, there are any number of reasons why they wouldn't, even if it's good. Firstly it's a massive change and people as a rule do not like change. Secondly it's a learning curve, it's not easy, and you have to invest time in it and initially it will make you slower rather than faster. Thirdly, what's in it for the employee? They're not gonna get paid more if they use AI to get 2x more work done, they're employer captures all of that. They work the same hours, have to learn a whole new workflow, just go get the same pay. Why bother?
Because it's a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc
Income tax has no effect on the uber wealthy. Only wealth tax does. You're thinking of the upper middle class
My dog racially profiles other dogs constantly
10 days a year is ridiculously few
Your brain is also software
When I was in college I built a chess playing program that I couldn't beat. It wasn't very good, but it was much better than me. The trick is machine learning: teach it the rules, get it to play millions of games against itself and adjust its strategy after each game.
The AI can become better at a learnable skill than those who trained it because the AI can spend zillions of hours practicing
He's not wrong though
Yeah much more secure than using a real credit card that's for sure!
I'm beyond the age of going places that bouncers will ask for my ID, but I have on many occasions gotten away with showing a photo of my passport on my phone when I needed ID at e.g. the post office to collect a package
Who the fuck uses cash lol. I do keep a 20 inside my phone case for emergencies though.
I have a mini card holder that sticks to the back of my phone case (MagSafe) if I'm going somewhere I'll need health care card. Such occasions are extremely rare though, it's just doctor or dental visits
Also if I'm driving somewhere then you gotta bring the car papers with you so my license just lives in the same case as them.
Passport also has its own case/bag if I need to bring it with me for something
You keep your passport in your wallet??
It's not even a secret, Trump said it himself
Found the boomer
Pretty sure trains have drivers bro
She's 22, quite possible she didn't want her photo being put online
That's true now, but wasn't always true, and the baby boomers voting differently would have prevented it
No Olympic athlete is non enhanced
Never heard of a subscription model before, I take it?
Yeah on the one hand I agree with you, for example Claude Enterprise plans are going to lose the subscription option next time they annually renew, which for us isn't for a while yet. On the other hand, the rate that new models are coming out is crazy and prices aren't going up, the result being that every month we're paying less and less per unit of work done. Sonnet 4.6 is as good as Opus 4.5 was but 1/3 cheaper. More and more companies outside the big 3 are becoming realistic contenders. I think if Anthropic start making pay their obviously over inflated API prices they'll just lose a ton of customers to cheaper inference providers. Currently I use Claude Code purely because it's the only harness you're allowed to use on the cheap subscription plan, as soon as that plan goes away I'd jump to a different company's plan, and if they all go away then I'd at least use a better harness (e.g. Pi) and a cheaper inference provider (e.g. DeepSeek). Meanwhile open source models are getting better and better and running our own inference farm is quite viable too
The subscription plans are insanely cheap currently, but won't be forever. Atm you can pay $200/month to get anywhere from 1.2x to 5x faster depending where you are on the learning curve. If people aren't taking advantage of that then it's equivalent to if your office had a team of 10 engineers but only 5 of them are being given any tasks and the others are told to do nothing.
As to people adopting it naturally, there are any number of reasons why they wouldn't, even if it's good. Firstly it's a massive change and people as a rule do not like change. Secondly it's a learning curve, it's not easy, and you have to invest time in it and initially it will make you slower rather than faster. Thirdly, what's in it for the employee? They're not gonna get paid more if they use AI to get 2x more work done, they're employer captures all of that. They work the same hours, have to learn a whole new workflow, just go get the same pay. Why bother?
Because it's a proxy metric for adoption. Currently you generally want your engineers to be using it as much as you can afford to so that they all learn and improve and adapt existing processes etc