This feels like a pretty negative take on what seems like impactful technology that is not going away, and will (and already has had) big impacts on how people work and build. Do you completely reject the idea of using them, ever? Do they have absolutely 0 utility for you?
It's a multifaceted principled stand I take for reasons I do not wish to get into on HN. There are more than enough people I can associate with who feel similarly to me outside of work and HN that I will not feel particularly compelled to use LLMs anytime soon. I cannot say this will remain the case forever, however, I just don't experience FOMO about these things.
As it stands today, I accomplish tasks at the speed of understanding, and that's with my "ancient" tooling.
Yes, also many were PPM images (or encoded as such) in PDFs and then I used (cheap/light) multimodal LLMs to classify documents from photos. It was surprisingly cheap: <$1 for a few thousand PDFs / Images.
While this might be a marketing tactic in such situations, in this case it's a press release, which is a format where it's common to speak about "yourself" in 3rd person. Look at their other press releases.
That's fair, it's so reporters can copy paste it. But given the seriousness here it would seem the CEO could have written something more personal. Though of course it covers their ass legally as it doesn't admit or imply guilt, even hits it's a contractor's fault, and nobody can accuse them of not "responding" any longer.
For anyone interested in incorporating wild plants into their cuisine (including foraging, preparation, storage, recipes, etc.), I cannot recommend Samuel Thayer's books highly enough: https://www.foragersharvest.com/sams-books.html
At this point, he is an authority in the foraging community, and his books are well-written. Got all of them in my bookshelf.
Related: me and my colleagues at Georgia Tech created something similar for multiple types of Points of Interest and developed and accessibility index. Our methodology was a bit different though: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06954
Extremely, and not just in tech. Most people just don’t want to admit it because most people need to feel like they “earned” their money. The reality that many, even most in some companies, people get paid simply to maintain a social system is a troubling thought for a lot of people.
You can easily work for a decade at some companies and contribute absolutely nothing if you know how to play the politics.
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