It feels like this will be big for road trips. Every road trip I've been on, it always felt there was a Walmart just a few miles miles the road.

This seems like a perfect use case for "agentic" AI. OpenAI can enrich the context window with the strengths and weakness of each model, and when a user prompts for something the model can say "Hey, I'm gonna switch to another model that is better at answering this sort of question." and the user can accept or reject.

How are the founding dates of the startups distributed? Are recent startups still exiting well?

Founding dates? I don't know. IPO dates were 2007, 2019, 2023.

Where can I read more about this?

A lot of folks (and good engineers) arent that career oriented.

I have to do a bragsheet now anyway and yeah like gritting teeth. It is documenting your job basically!

It’s not about being careee oriented. It’s knowing that eventually you are going to need to interview for a job.

Interesting. I thought calling a program an "app" came with the smartphone era much later.

People called things like Lotus 1-2-3 “killer apps” in the 1980s.

A reference from 1989:

https://books.google.com/books?id=CbsaONN5y1IC&pg=PP75#v=one...

Yeah I rolled my eyes at that, but publishers basically require the front 10% of non-fiction be like that. It's for the people walking through book stores and picking up books to browse.

You have it. You can self-publish.

Publishers are not actually idiots. By and large, they know what sells.

Self publishing doesn't work because there is no filter for quality or editing.

I guess I'm not sure what you mean by "doesn't work." I've gone through publishers and self-published. They come with different tradeoffs including the complaints about how publishers want a book to flow as described upthread.

Reviews are at least something of a filter.

> I think there are two main reasons, the first being the sheer intellectual difficulty of crafting an informed political view leads people to tribalism out of convenience.

What's the difference between tribalism and deferring to experts on complex subjects, e.g. climate change? I have a deep skepticism of people who think they can personally reason through any complex topic from first principles. It shows a lack of humility and self-awareness. Nobody has the time to build that kind of expertise in every domain, and there is wisdom in deferring to the hard won experience of others. But the type to think they can reason through everything seems like the type to call this "tribal politics."

> Instead of making their life easier, AI has resulted in drastically reduced timelines and ebbing appreciation for creativity.

I've felt this personally as a dev. We are getting squeezed to move and deliver faster because we have AI.

I liken AI hype to crypto hype. There will be always be some wide-eyed techno-optimist rube waxing poetic about how AI will open the door towards a 4-day workweek, just like how crypto will strengthen civil society by reducing the influence of banks in handling commerce.

The reality is a lot simpler (and darker) when you realize who the buyers of this technology are, and what they want from it. And what they want is always the same...more, and faster.

The accusation didn't work.

This time. In many other cases, it work[s,ed].

This seems like something you want to be true more than something that actually is true.

Citation?