We’re going to start to see more companies like this. HyperWrite has reached a pretty sizable scale with only a few employees. We don’t expect to have to hire many more to continue growing. A lot of this is due to internal AI use that helps us move faster.
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Code Cloud AI Transform Capital Labor Productivity Economics
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This is clear to anyone with freshman macroeconomics – The Cobb-Douglas function for factor productivity: Y = A * L^β * K^α Value of your work depends on how well you wield capital (K) and labor (L). Code, Cloud and AI have massively improved α while β is at generational lows.
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How to succeed on LLM Twitter: quit job, follow arXiv, AI execs
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How to succeed on LLM Twitter:
1. Quit your staff-level job designing AB tests.
2. Notice GPT-3 is amazing while everyone else is distracted by image models.
3. Spend your days on arXiv. Follow authors on Twitter.
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Spotify’s Work From Anywhere Program Reduces Turnover and Boosts Diversity
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A proof that it works! In Feb 2021, Spotify launched 'Work From Anywhere'. A program that let employees work from home or the office More than a year later, Spotify says it has experienced lower turnover vs pre-pandemic levels and increased diversity #workexperience
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Generative AI Boosts Developer Productivity Without Threatening Jobs
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Developers should NOT be threatened by generative AI. It's an unequivocal good. We get more time for actually valuable parts of jobs. Architecture, system design, shipping features users want. we're seeing "memory management is now optional" levels of productivity improvement.
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Future of Restaurants: Human Waiters as Authenticity
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Tomorrow’s authentic restaurants will be the ones with human waiters.
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AI Impact on Writing Supply: Scarcity and Value in Content Economy
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Supply and Demand: AI is making it very cheap to produce mid-level writing, so the supply of mid-level writing will soar and the compensation for mid-level writing will plummet. Key questions: 1. What will be scarce in such a world?
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Automation over Augmentation: Risks of Prioritizing HLAI
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5/ While both types of AI can be beneficial, there are currently excess incentives for automation rather than augmentation among technologists, business executives, and policymakers. We must be mindful of the implications of our focus on HLAI.
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AI Augmentation Over Mimicry: Human Value and Economic Power
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4/ When AI is focused on augmenting humans rather than mimicking them, humans retain the power to insist on a share of the value created. Augmentation creates new capabilities and products, ultimately generating far more value than human-like AI.
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HLAI Focus Risks: Labor Power Loss and Technology Dependency
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3/ An excessive focus on HLAI can be dangerous – as machines become better substitutes for human labor, workers lose bargaining power and become dependent on those who control the technology.