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[Different from the last two posts that got a lot of traction, this is a short(-ish), stream-of-consciousness post.] Now Anthropic is calling for a "global pause in AI." 1 I have been somewhat of a distant sympathizer of the "Pause AI" movement for reasons outlined in the previous posts, but was thinking this was an utopia by now. There's nothing we can do, the genie is out of the bottle, uh? So…
So, my latest post went viral. And with virality, you get a ton of comments that you must reply to . I don't want to reply in HN/Reddit/Whatever to prevent endless thread depths that will consume my sanity. I'm going to cherry-pick some comments and leave answers here for those looking for them. Wut? I pilot LLMs all day but there's no way in hell I'd agree to be at the helm of a finance product.…
I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to debug frontend code back then, so I chose that path), but shortly transitioned to (web) backend and never looked back. Through a series of coincidences, once I stepped into backend development, I ended up working in software development roles in…