I've been in that situation. What broke was that nobody had the skills to coordinate and to ramp up all these new joiners. And the hiring didn't anticipate that this would be a problem.

Eventually, things went better when they found the right persons to help with the organization, but it was chaotic and frustrating for a while.

Happens all the time. I usually propose a details structure myself (e.g. do it in three phases, add 3 functions + an orchestrator, make sure structure is valid before writing the function bodies), or iterate on detailed plan before implementing code.

Now some people argue that terrible code is fine nowadays, because humans won't read it anymore...

My manager is slowly being replaced by an AI. She's been asked to increase number of reports and start working on unrelated tasks, because presumably AI is making more productive at supporting the team.

> without a battle of ego.

This resonates. Recently, I've started to consider Claude as a partner. I like how he's willing to accept he's wrong when you provide evidence. It can be more pleasant than working with humans.

Please don't anthropomorphize LLMs even further by assigning them gendered pronouns. LLMs are always "it"s. They're not alive, they're just really complicated linear algebra expressions. Prematurely anthropomorphizing them, even subtly like this, will come back to bite us if we keep doing it.

Why not? Claude is a male name, and the model behaves close enough to a human that I think it's fine to refer to it as a he or a she. Also note that some languages don't have neutral pronouns and it's perfectly fine to say a mosquito is a "he", and a spider a "she" for instance. Are they more humans than a LLM?

Can you defend that though? Does living mean needing cells? Does it mean possessing the ability to think and reason? Is Claude thinking and reasoning?

I just think that if I treat my AI GF like that she'll just pout and end up giving me the silent treatment and I'll have to reboot her.

oh cool, i didn't know there was a second edition!

The actual title is "How to win a best paper award", which is quite different from doing "important research that matters". Most researchers work in very niche and specialized fields, sometimes for their whole life. They grant themselves all sorts of awards within their community, but it doesn't mean their research "matters".

The subtitle is “or, an opinionated take on how to do important research that matters”.

> I would NOT recommend dating apps, you will most likely not find a real connection

Plenty of people found real connections on dating apps. They can be frustrating but remain a good way to meet people. That being said, different people have vastly different experience there, and it can be very frustrating and demoralizing.

> a lot of political stuff finds place on the front page.

I think something very serious is happening in the US right one, and it's increasingly hard for our community to just pretend it doesn't exist.

The world is changing...