What it cost doesn't actually say what it cost. I wonder what models they used. Napkin math of Opus for everything (probably not true) with no caching suggests $67,000.
They mention Anthropic, so I assumed something similar. At $5 per 5 million tokens, 13 billion would cost $65,000. However, the image in the article shows over 17 billion used, which is $85,000. That's an entry-level programmer's yearly salary. It doesn't quite pass their code tests, and it's automatic code translation, so it's going to be a pretty direct transcription. There's still probably a lot of messy code to clean up. I'm not sure it's worth it.
And then you end up raising your grandkids instead of the kids you gave birth to. It's not something that comes without cost. And what if you don't particularly trust your parents to raise kids? I suppose you would have no idea whether you did or not, because they would not have parented you...
I just want to say that I'm in a similar position to you. 32 and divorced my wife a couple of months ago. We had gotten together at 18--I had lived with her my entire adult life, excepting college. Still not completely sure it was the right decision, but I had nagging unhappiness in the relationship that I couldn't seem to solve, even with personal and couple's therapy. I have to remind myself how lonely I felt in my marriage sometimes... solitude can be better than a feeling of rejection or alienation.
This is just to say... it sucks. It's really hard. It seems to get a little bit better over time, but at least right now, I still find it really hard.
Some things that help:
1. Claiming the space you live in. Nest. Get some art you like. Put up photos that remind you of the significant relationships you still have, that remind you of good times with others.
2. Exercise. Whenever I'm having a particularly hard day, exercise is a huge reprieve for me. It saps whatever anxious energy I have and channels it into the movement and effort.
3. Observing yourself, the thoughts that crop up to you. "Oh, I'm having thought XXX again. I'm going to put that down for now." The more times you do it, the more it will occur to you that you can. Focus in on your senses, how your body feels. Often, when my mind is anxious or lonely, my body is feeling fine, and I can take some comfort in that.
4. Plans. Make plans with others. Lean into your friendships. Reach out to people more frequently. And, importantly LEAN INTO VULNERABILITY! If you're a man, like me, you might have put a lot of your "intimacy" eggs into one basket--your partner. Try to build these kinds of relationships with others. It won't always work, sometimes you'll face implicit or explicit rejection, but when it does, you'll find your friendships deepen. A lot more people are looking for this than you might expect.
5. Creative and emotional outlets (related). Journaling helps to ground, and somehow the act of writing to myself makes me feel less alone. Poetry and music have been great for expressing some of the pain. The act of creating can be very satisfying, and it's a solitary activity, for the most part.
6. Do nice things for yourself. Keep your place looking nice. Buy yourself things you might want. When you cook dinner, put out a place mat and eat at the table and light a candle--do things you would have done while you were partnered. Treat yourself like you're your own partner.
7. Read things that keep your mind engaged. I don't know about you, but one of the worst things about being alone for me is a tendency to ruminate when my mind isn't busy. Go over regrets, what I could have done differently, whether I made the right decision. One of the best ways to avoid this, for me, is to have books I'm reading that engage my brain when I'm not busy, in thinking over the material that I've read.
Some don'ts:
1. Rebound. I hooked up with a good friend about 2 weeks after divorcing. It got intense quickly (there had already been feelings) and then it crashed and burned (all within a month). I wasn't ready; she wasn't ready. Now we're trying to renormalize back into friendship, but it seems some damage was done. And now I'm carrying two losses in a way that's confusing and just amplifies things. That said, I had received this advice on all sides and didn't follow it... so why would I expect anyone else to? All this is to say, it's probably good to be "okay" with being alone (even if you don't want to be forever) before launching into something else.
2. Careful with substances. It's easy to get into the habit of drinking a bit every night (or at least it was for me), though tbh this had become a problem before the divorce too, since it was occupying me so much... But even in reasonable amounts, it adds up, makes your mood lower, makes the process of moving on and building a new life harder. I imagine the same applies for weed or practically anything else.
3. Social media. Looking at pictures of happy couples, seeing all the things others are doing, or brain rotting watching reels--none of these will make you feel better, but an app on your phone is super easy to reach for when you're feeling lonely as a form of dissociation.
I think it's quite common that a company has way too many things that it could work on compared to what the amount of people they should reasonably hire can get done. And working on more things actually generates more work itself. The more products you have, or the more infrastructure capabilities you build out, the more possible work you can do.
So you could work on more things with the same number of employees, make more money as a result, and either further increase the number of things you do, or if not, increase your revenue and hopefully profits per-employee.
I'm not sure that follows from this article. In fact, I think the logical conclusion of the article is that, by trying to grow (address weaknesses and turn them into strengths) you're actually creating strengths, which in turn creates a weakness.
I think it's possible to grow in positive outcomes of behaviors, but I also think this article is trying to get at something intrinsic within each one of us. Identifying where our personality quirks lead to strengths and weaknesses, and accepting that, is related but not quite the same as identifying concrete positive and negative outcomes of behavior, and trying to change our behaviors to align more to the positive outcomes.
Not sure if the link I'm trying to make here will be clear, but... I had an interesting conversation with my wife the other day. She conceives of who she is largely through the behaviors she expresses, a kind of de facto self-definition. I tend to have a self-conception that's a little bit more abstract and rooted as much in my feelings, thoughts, with some aspirational quality, that my behaviors sometimes live up to, and other times don't.
I can see how. In the example given, the strength of coding speed is created via a bias against careful review of edge cases. When it works (most of the time) , you increase your coding speed and reduce review of edge cases even more, until something blows up
The interesting insight from the article is that a coder is not an inflexible monolith - they can vary the expression of a "strength/weakness" pair (strength/weakness being a misnomer at this point in the argument) to suit the circumstances
Do you think normal people (think, your average investing American) are trading based on this news? They probably shouldn't be... I would think that by far most of the trading these past few days has been institutions, so, a big transfer from some financial institutions to others?
I think this would be expected though, no? Sure, there's flight to safety, but you're also reducing exports to the US, reducing the number of dollars flowing to foreign nationals, which reduces the demand for treasury bills, which an excess of dollars would often be used to buy to have an inflation-"proof" store for your dollars without currency risk. You would also expect devaluation of the dollar from tariffs / trade-war, which I would also expect to cause selling of t-bills in favor of local currencies
You're answering a question that wasn't asked so you can bring your view on unionization into the conversation. The implicit question is whether management should, not whether they can.
It's about power to affect change in an organization. The more power you have the better systems you can establish and sustain. Unions should be brought up constantly in these threads about AI mandates and "leadership" directions.
Unions might not be the best solution, or the most practical. I'm all ears for better ways to fight back against bogus leadership. How else can software developers advocate for their interests in an environment where their power is sharply declining (non performance based layoffs, "performance" based layoffs, reduction in junior hiring, reduction in in-office perks, reduction in total comp, etc)?
I have a public transit commute, but at the end of the day it's 8 minutes of walking to the train, a transfer after 7 minutes, and then a 7 minute walk to the office from the train. Never enough unbroken time to get into a book :(. I've learned something new about public transit commuting--look for a commute with as long a single stint on the train as possible, while still trying to minimize total time.
Cool article though!