I don’t think we’ll be getting $2,000 luxury cars anytime soon so my vote is that we’re in a bubble.
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That’s when they talk about dark factories because the robots don’t need light (unless they’re using Tesla technology).
In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the US added thousands of staffers to their payroll, Block included. (As Cybernews observes, Block’s workforce exploded from 3,900 in 2019 to 12,500 in 2022.) Luckily for it, AI arrived just as companies needed to correct their pandemic hiring sprees — offering executives a convenient excuse for mass layoffs.
Even Dorsey admits “yes we over-hired during [COVID],” which he blames on organizational issues, or, as he puts it, “because i incorrectly built [two] separate company structures (square & cash app) rather than [one].”
“So you over-hired, overbuilt, and now you’re celebrating efficiency while people lost jobs,” one poster replied under Dorsey’s post. “Must be nice to treat human beings like spreadsheet errors.”
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sounds about right.
(Honestly, manufacturing material goods is something we’ve been automating for centuries now, and I doubt AI can have much of a short term impact.)
Progress on my AI service progresses……progressively.
Turns out when you get an API feed from Claude, you lose a lot of the non-ai functionality. Like, generating PDF’s. The API will generate HTML but not PDF’s. If you ask, it tells you to print the html using your browser.
So we added a pdf module. Then find out, html→pdf in general doesn’t do well with colour. And then we had issues with links to images. Anyway, got all that resolved, and well resolved and now it’s absolutely smoking for use in creating insurance proposals - which is our primary use case initially.
I was getting mildly stressed about getting stuff going, so I’m pretty happy now that the developer guy has this stage wrapped. I’m used to my regularly scheduled developer guy that’s been with me for 15+ years, I don’t even have to document what I want and he gets it done.
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Currently going sideways on a couple things.
I’ve had a saas project I’ve needed to do for a couple years. my buddy wants to use it, but is screwing around actually being prepared to pay for it. and a third buddy has a need for something similar. and I want their help, because they both bring some extra to the table in terms of practical knowledge. so I want them on board, but need to incentivize them.
so I spoke to my friend and business mentor as to how to do that. and his response? dont bother with either of them, don’t pay a developer. instead, vibe code it. he has hundreds of software engineers that work for him and he said they are currently figuring out how they’re doing coding in the company going forward. he said their head of sales just built a digital version of their product in a week.
I’m finding this so disruptive. I can’t even get my head fully around the possibilities nevermind figuring out what to do first.
But I’ve been toying with the idea of restarting exams but it looks like that’s going on hold while I figure out how to vibe code.
Vibe coding is fine, how do you vibe QA test?
Tune in, turn on, drop out, maaaaaaan.
Interesting chart from Anthropic.
It looks at how far AI has been developed relative to what they see as possible in various sectors.
Vibe charting