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Learn to code
A common line of thinking is: if you extrapolate LLM coding performance to the future, they will quickly exceed human capabilities. Therefore learning to code is not worthwhile.
Don’t pivot into AI research
Many computer science students and new grads aspire to move into machine learning. It seems exciting and sexy. You can play a role in bringing in the incoming AGI utopia. Many strive to work in “machine learning or AI research” - a vaguely defined field that includes everything from data engineering, infrastructure and model architecture.
Next.js first impressions
I started a new web app recently and was surprised to see the official React documentation pushes users to Next.js when starting a new project. This is crazy! React is actively moving potential users away from using it directly and onto an abstraction layer on top of it. The world’s most popular framework is willingly giving up that title.
How to travel
Travel is usually seen and described as an easy ailment to any malaise. An instant life changing experience.
Free will
In a class I taught at Berkeley, I did an experiment where I wrote a simple little program that would let people type either “f” or “d” and would predict which key they were going to push next. It’s actually very easy to write a program that will make the right prediction about 70% of the time. Most people don’t really know how to type randomly. They’ll have too many alternations and so on. There…