Mike Mackenzie retweeted
My timeline is full of GPT influencers, so I'd like to push back a bit:
LLMs are nowhere as advanced as most people would have you believe. It will be a while before you can automate away most jobs. Why?
There are plenty of single-step inferences on the internet: if you want to travel, search a travel site. If you need to do math, find a calculator. But for long chains of long-tail problem solving, this is not true. If you let an agent go away for several cycles it will start to compound its own mistakes and most likely fail to accomplish what you wanted. Or worse, it will make a mess that you'll have to undo.
This problem cannot be solved with more computation and more data in an economic way. Not yet, at least. Many startups will find out the hard way this year and next.
LLMs have their place in the world of business, just like calculators and spreadsheets. But they won't replace your accountant or your doctor or our lawyer any time soon. They will help larger companies (the Fords and Pepsis of the world) reduce inefficiencies and perhaps eliminate some jobs that are already borderline useful, but it's not a step function. It's the continuation of a trend.
It seems almost impossible to talk to @FlyAirNZ - I can't ring them 'cus I'm all deaf, and you can message them on Twitter or Facebook (which I don't use). All I want is a confirmation of my flight changes (they keep emailing the old one)
Mike Mackenzie retweeted
¡Felicidades, querido @RealGDT, por el galardón a PINOCHO como mejor película animada de los #CriticsChoiceAwards!
Congratulations to @pinocchiomovie, winner of the #CriticsChoice Award for Best Animated Feature.
@RealGDT #CriticsChoiceAwards
Anyone gone with @trustpower for internet before? what's it like? Keeps up with other providers?
#Dunedin's moon looks like an orange slice tonight (sorry for the pics taken on my phone). Maybe @iangriffin will have better pics...
#dalle2 "cybertronic assassin rat, ambient light, octane render". Dall-E 2 is just _insane_. Yes, I have access. Yes, I take requests!
For #a11y and other #accessibility thingies, you might quite like this GitHub app that does basic accessibility linting! (I wish I'd come up with the idea):
accesslint.com/
Mike Mackenzie retweeted
Users don’t care what programming language you used to build your software… all the care about is if it works and solves their problems.
I think the tech community places too much emphasis on their techstack and less emphasis on building things people ACTUALLY want.
Mike Mackenzie retweeted
From Mosgiel FB page: ''The turnout at the Mosgiel Anzac service was very good but I was disappointed that the band chose to only play the Maori verse of our New Zealand National Anthem. I feel there is too much of "only Maori" happening in New Zealand today''.
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jeez I don't think I've ever seen such a large Police presence around Dunedin lately. Like, yesterday they were breath testing, today they were setting speed traps. maybe they're bored?
Gotta say the drive through vaccinations being done by Te Kāika is super cool. Fast, nice people, funny people, music - and to top it off, free bloody ice cream from Mr Whippy. Got the booster, kiddo got his first shot. Thank you to everyone who makes this such an easy task.
Mike Mackenzie retweeted
We are delighted to introduce you to the new leader of The Opportunities Party, @rafmanji.


















