We went from new JS framework every week to a new model/harness every week.

Tech is really something.

Are they just scaling more? getting more data at the same rate? training against the same benchmarks? making the same breakthroughs?

How can this be explained?

I did several one month water water fast, the brain sharpen after a week usually. And I stars getting headaches agents below 10% body fat.

I also had a lot of ideas that I wanted to execute and I'm finally able to do so. Some of them are wild and big, unthinkable last year. I also really enjoy building product/software that people are delighted to use. So from my perspective, the net positive outweighs the losses.

My work position is less certain, I grief the years spent mastering things just to see AI doing it, but I went to software engineering because I enjoyed building products, from ideas to something people can play with, and this has never been easier.

It's nothing short of magic. And in terms of productivity, features that took months are now being done in days. I'm not even sure what the author is talking about frankly.

Am I missing something?

I'm sorry to break your bubble but if you step out of this forum and the culture you are in, you will be offended every day.

But then you sat their reading a published article labeling an entire domain/knowledge workers as useless/sad and you took it, so that sits alright with you?

I don't know the person, I can see the work that produced and the cognition behind it, and in my mind it was lousy thinking dressed in uniform published and shared that could lead to damage, just imagine young people at university reading this..

And are you their lawyer? you took offence at the word because it is sensitive to you. Just like I took sadness personal to me. Again, I don't know the person, but I think their work was weak. Perhaps I didn't use the right adjectives but that was my point, it was a weak article and poorly reasoned, that stigmatized an entire domain.

But it seems since 1998 it has been used for diagnosis and people are shunning the word, but that is mostly in western culture.

But I think it was clear from my post what I mean when I said this, I don't know why I'm defending words, I don't know the author, I'm merely expressing my dissatisfaction with the author's position and broad generalizations.

What would someone coming to tech think when they read articles like this?

I find a lot tech people sensitive to that in general, given that what they are exchanging in the market is their presumed intelligence.

But again, you can keep me honest, instead of leaving me guessing about a banned word since 1998.

I was trying to explain a point that "sadness" as a by product arraignment not the domain. And I personally found the article heavy on generalization. When I read statements like "All knowledge work is pointless" and "Everyone in tech is sad".. I just think it's lousy thinking.

But I don't know what word you referring too that was not common since 1998 specifically and why..I find you comment to be really strange, sorry.

But anyway, I'm getting used to being flagged and downvoted on this site.

But anyway, you are clearly one of the people I'm describing.. unfortunately, it is unsustainable system both from an economical and environmental perspectives. And I won't argue about mental health, which you would probably label as lazy commie or something.

Are you excited to go to Mars? like heaven but for capitalist?

The way I see it, is that they missed the boat on how powerful those models will become meanwhile other players are integrating deeply into their ecosystem. It might go down as the fall of the empire similar to Nokia, Kodak etc. It is still too early to tell.

At least the author admit he is biased..

And just like people going to the gym to exercise their otherwise economically useless bodies, same thing will happen with the mind.

Folks, get over it.