Still baffles me that Outlook won’t let me tie together emails, calendar items and documents. It makes so much sense to combine these things. All my meetings are about documents and their related correspondence but you never have a coherent information space for them.
Yes. For some people product owners don’t want to hear this. If having access to email means you can access the account then don’t prance around that with complicated recovery steps.
Well if we just store the inputs and outputs of the LLM on the blockchain we’ve just created a secure end to end AI-managed tender process. In fact we can automatically pay out the contractor in AlbaCoins now.
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Us Europeans are just baffled by the fact that this ‘administration’ wants this. The EU is a big economy that’s relatively easy to deal with. Why would you alienate us?
But yeah so far Trump has been relatively true to his word, as far as it goes. Not really practically but going further down the road of a dare I say fascist outlook. I think Europeans still can’t believe it’s happening, much less intentionally so.
You are effectively saying that Europe should be a vassal state to the US and cannot have its own laws. Europe has a different vision on privacy and competition. The regulation asks for e.g. Apple are peanuts compared to what China asks. Apple bends back over to please China, but if Europe has some requirements for doing business part of the US do the tired trope “US innovates, Europe regulates”.
We have too many problems at home to be daddy with a credit card.
First, this is rich for a country living on borrowed money (that they can only get away with because the rest of the world uses it as the default currency).
Second, a lot of the problems of the US are caused by the lack of proper wealth redistribution, lack of efficient health care (no, the US doesn’t subsidize European healthcare, European countries spend far less on healthcare with better outcomes). It’s not solved by throwing lifelong allies under the bus and trading the for some dictator friends.
Finally, the security situation also arisen because the US did not want European militaries to become too powerful and has pushed a lot to be dependent on the US and US tech. For instance, countries have to buy US fighters for nuclear sharing, etc. The primary exception is France because they never wanted to be reliant and have their own nuclear force, etc.
Also let’s not forget Article 5 was only invoked once (by the US) and we were happy to help, because that’s what friends do. We have been in Afghanistan for over 20 years as a result and a lot of our soldiers died and were injured.
> The fact that you can't understand this is exactly why this administration is doing this.
> because you believe that excellence is not worthy of being rewarded. Your culture has the mindset that excellence is not a product of hard work and determination, it's a product of luck and nepotism, so any hint of excellence gets taken away and diminished.
This administration does not believe in rewarding excellence, hard work, or determination. It’s an administration by the most malicious, incompetent people who have ever led this country.
My colleagues at the head of a company. I’m one of four bosses. One of us is pushing for AI every single meeting. The other is ignoring her. The last one is starting to ‘see her point.’ I’m considering quitting if this goes to far but unwilling to make that threat yet, as it’s a bridge I can only cross once.
Anyway. To me it just speaks to the disdain for semi-intellectual work. People seem to think producing text has some value of its own. They think they can shortcircuit the basic assumption that behind every text is an intention that can be relied upon. They think that if they substitute this intention with a prompt, they can create the same value. I expect there to be some kind of bureaucratic collapse because of this, with parties unable to figure out responsibility around these zombie-texts. After that begins cleaning up, legislating and capturing in policy what the status of a given text is etc. Altman &co will have cashed out by then.
It's interesting to still hear this kind of sentiment.
> People seem to think producing text has some value of its own.
Reading this sentence makes me think that the author actually never seen agentic work in action?
Producing value out of text does work and one of good examples is putting it in a loop with some form of verification output.
It's easy to do with programming - type checker, tests, linter etc. – so it can chat by itself with it's own results until the problem is solved.
I also find it personally strange that so often discussions require reminder that rate of change in capabilities is also big part of "the thing" (as opposed to pure capabilities today). It changes on weekly/monthly basis and it changes in one direction only.
i think you might have misunderstood the meaning of “producing text” in the parent comment.
the kind of people the parent comment was talking about tend to believe they can send three emails and make millions of pounds suddenly appear in business value (i’m being hyperbolic and grossly unfair but the premise is there).
they think the idea is far more valuable than the implementation - the idea is their bit (or the bit they’ve decided is their bit) and everyone else is there to make their fantastic idea magically appear out of thin air.
they aren’t looking at tests and don’t have a clue what a linter is (they probably think it’s some fancy device to keep lint off their expensive suits).
The recent blog post discusses moving into the email space and suggests some interesting uses of LLM’s for handling mail (sorting and labeling rather than writing). I’ve been quite pleasantly surprised with the Kagi products so far and would probably consider their e-mailservice if it’s as good. However the hassle of switching email providers is of course around 100x the hassle of switching search…
