If I could only give one piece of feedback for the rest of my career on all tech marketing content it would be this: rewrite to describe the activities done, not the outcome achieved.

The options we pass to FFmpeg in a variety of cases is now so complicated that I can’t really understand or edit it without AI.

Just image all the sed and awk script, the regex’s we can now all write effortlessly.

🔗 Manton

Infrastructure self-harm

That wasn’t what we hoped would happen when nearly 10 years ago we and others came up with these new automated technologies around Kubernetes. We thought we would make things easier, more automated, safer, more compliant. And instead, people seem to be getting more and more stuck. And that’s partly because systems have grown. We’re the victims of our own success. …. A platform so easy to use that it needs another platform to make it usable…

”Extrapolating these results to the economy, current generation AI models could increase annual US labor productivity growth by 1.8% over the next decade. This would double the annual growth the US has seen since 2019, and places our estimate towards the upper end of recent estimates. ”

🔗 Estimating AI productivity gains, Anthropic