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Cake day: July 26th, 2023

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  • As soon as shareholders, and the board, feel an LLM agent can reliably do all the work of a CEO, the CEO will not need to exist. But the problem is that LLM agents require human supervision or intervention at irregular intervals. Since neither shareholders nor the board work full time, there still has to be someone to supervise and be available. The role of the CEO might change, and LLM agents might end up taking on a lot of the work they do. Maybe someday the CEO will mostly just be an “idea guy” that networks with other similar people to drum up deals and gets the LLM agent unstuck every once in a while. But it’s very unlikely there will be no human in the loop during regular work hours.








  • Most of these aren’t even news. They’re entertainment companies that happen to include reporting-like segments and opinion pieces, whether they’re accurate or not. And they’re for-profit; their main customers are advertisers, not viewers/readers.

    A non-profit that simply reports without spin would be “real” news - actually trustworthy information from a source that isn’t trying to brainwash you or milk you for ad revenue. There are very, very few organizations that fit this criteria. The biggest is AP (Associated Press). The entertainment companies license AP content (and content from for-profit competitors like Reuters) but filter and distort it however they wish.



  • They can’t read your mind. A professional painter is going to make the exact image they want in far less time and with more accuracy than repeatedly prompting a black box to make small changes.

    But if you’re an amateur and don’t really know what you want, or you’re not very picky or care about quality, then meh good enough. High level software developers know what they want. They are like painters. And at that point, the LLM isn’t really solving problems for you. At best, it’s putting the paint to the canvas. That is, saving you typing time.

    But time spent typing is definitely not the limiting factor for productivity in software.



  • Using generative AI to replace toil and not the creative human process is fine imo. Even doing something like generating visual things, to me, is OK if it’s driven by real creative intent and doesn’t result in something that looks low quality. But it’s not very simple to get output that you can tweak in fine ways to get predictable changes based on specific creative intent - human language is not descriptive enough to really capture that. “A picture is worth a thousand words” is accurate. You’re also shooting yourself in the foot when you end up with a ton of assets or systems that you don’t have fine control over because you can’t do something simple like tweak a layer of an image because what you got at the end of the day was just a raster output from a black box.