However, everything else you lay out is spot on.

So if OpenAI starts drawing significant resources from their cloud hardware, good luck gettin your own. Including me :)

I'm sure LLMs can augment learning in some settings, esp in higher ed, but putting more computer time for kids learning basics (I mean K-8 mostly) I hope is handled more carefully than things like Quizlet...

In the olden days, we would have a few engineers dedicated to managing production systems, and we would just use their time in the calculations. That was fine, because they spent much of their time looking at the bits, sometimes changing systems, and generally just being responsible for prod.

My current system is in the newish model where nobody actually touches production. All changes are software driven, logs are analyzed automatically with monitors, and generally only investigated when issues arise (detected or reported).

Anyone have a rationale for how to allocate the infrastructure teams time to production for this accounting exercise? I'm guestimating 50-50 split, prod verse non prod support (developer support), but I'd love to hear other POVs. Thx.

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I don't think there is a nefarious purpose going on, i.e. getting people to sign up and stealing their info or payments, etc. However, it contributes to the erosion of trust on the internet. You're no longer sure if you're talking to a real dog in pajamas online or an AI pretending to be one.

1) I began in tech in the mid 90s as a software engineer on a small team building a rudimentary ecommerce type app, written in C, compiled as an apache module, without a database. Now, multiple generations of programming tech later, look at the frameworks and higher level languages, tools and IaC, and you have amazingly complex and powerful systems being built by the same number of engineers in a fraction of the effort.

2) I, now as an engineering leader, can crank out a marketing blog if I put my mind and interest to it. But, I can write an outline and ask ChatGPT to finish it and it's decent. I can ask it to re-write my customer facing docs in a different style. I can do all sorts of amazing transformations of content, extract key snippets for headlines, write summaries, expand ideas, and I focus on the important knowledge work.

I think that this type of AI will cause those with experience that can leverage the tech to become even more entrenched as they can leverage experience and wield their influence via these tools creating much more widely felt impacts. Whether it be in marketing, sales, support, documentation, etc, the few will be able to accomplish much more with much less. Small teams with better tools will _always_ be more productive than larger teams.