The right model to think about productivity in software engineering is to consider that each engineer is backed by an infinite army of robots.
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1000x Programmers: Infinite Leverage in Idea Space
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See John Carmack, Notch, Satoshi Nakamoto, Vitalik Buterin, George Hotz, etc. for example of 1,000x programmers. It’s idea space and the leverage is infinite.
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Static hosting compatibility challenges in modern web development
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Yeah it's not very compatible with purely static hosting strategies sadly – had a conversation about that the other day here: https://
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Product Quality Determines Ad Performance Success
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Your ads are doing well because you have a good product people want. Your ads are doing bad because you have a bad product that people don’t think they need.
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Engineering Talent Cannot Be Measured by Headcount Alone
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Number of engineers – like number of artists, number of scientists, number of thinkers – is a completely useless metric.
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Engineering Capability and Productivity Disparities in AI Development
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They will, it’s not hard. Just takes a few good engineers. More engineers is not equal to better when some are literally 1000x more capable than others.
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Version 4 Ships with Improvements Despite Limited Resources
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Version 4 shipped a few days ago with some nice improvements – so it's getting better It doesn't have a team of thousands of engineers and designers behind it like Twitter used to though, so we may need to be a little more patient with it
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YouTube ContentID: Even the simplest moderation system at scale fails
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The most successful automated moderation system at scale is YouTube’s ContentID, which is very complicated but still simple: does this audio match a song in a database? It has an error rate so high that everyone hates it. It’s a meme. Even the simple one sucks.
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Facebook Content Moderation: Human Labor and AI Limitations
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This from @CaseyNewton is what moderating Facebook is actually like – and no one has gotten any closer to making it easier with robots. https://
theverge.com/2019/2/25/1822
9714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona
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AI Moderation at Scale Dismissed as Ridiculous Idea
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Kara’s entire thread is a good summation of the “it must be on purpose” whispers but I just want to point at this idea directly and say: this is a purely ridiculous idea, and no one will ever make AI moderation work at scale https://
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