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got nerd sniped by @charity.wtf to write down two questions i have about artificial intelligence and how we're reacting to it as an industry. aparker.io/questions-on...
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cofounder/CTO @honeycombio, co-author of Observability Engineering and Database Reliability Engineering. I test in production and so do you. 🐝🏳️🌈🦄
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy charitydotwtf.substack.com
Make AI Boring Again charitydotwtf.substack.com
In defense of AI mandates charitydotwtf.substack.com
Is it ethical to use AI? charity.wtf
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AI is approving our pull requests: Here's how we made it safe intercom.com
AI Completed the System We Built thepatrickdempsey.substack.com
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ah, i like that idea, and it neatly parallels my other piece, charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-enthusi...
as promised, here is my post on AI and ethics. I think unilateral disarmament in the face of powerful new tools is neither wise nor effective. I think those of us in tech have a particular responsibility to engage, participate and build better solutions. charitydotwtf.substack…
People really hate AI mandates -- unsurprisingly, since most are terrible. But they don't have to be. Used wisely, the mandate is an effective tool for driving and funding organizational change. More in my piece, "In defense of AI mandates." charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/in-def…
charity.wtf reposted
One of the best and most considered pieces on AI that I have seen so far: charity.wtf/p/make-ai-bo... Read it! And follow @charity.wtf
here's cory doctorow, as much of an anti-AI crusader as anyone, saying this last week (around the 38 min mark): "i've worked on copyright for 25 years. anyone who tells you that it's a slam dunk that training a model is a copyright infringement is blowing smoke." www.youtube.c…
i would never claim to be 100% culturally aligned with them as a company. but their approach to engineering rigor is top notch. here's another: www.intercom.com/blog/ai-is-a...
i would 10000% fund second language instruction in all schools. they do in europe. i really enjoyed some of this guy's writing on education recently. thepatrickdempsey.substack.com/p/ai-complet...
i wrote a piece on sunday about engineering discipline, and i was thinking about how it looks when applied to nondeterministic systems ... how how they may change or evolve. charitydotwtf.substack.com/p/ai-demands...
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writing my second response on AI, this one on ethics. here's my list, what am I missing? come on bsky, you were built for this day 😉 * datacenters that are too loud and use fresh water * data labeling work that is extractive & exploitative, chasing low pay * models trained on data without consent
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