David Murgatroyd

The more experience I get with the arc of #GenerativeAI the more I sense that in the long run we'll all essentially become product managers or platform engineers.

I like radical @candor but think it doesn't go deep enough: personal care and direct challenge aren't orthogonal dimensions -- challenging is a deep form of caring.

Glad to hear a @YaleDivSchool prof [1] and the CEO of @AnthropicAI [2] each affirm that AI will drive home that meaning in life can't come from being the best at something. [1] @MiroslavVolf - open.spotify.com/episode/27tE90… [2] @DarioAmodei -youtube.com/live/esCSpbDPJ…

Glad to have our team's understanding of you and the music you love helping power this great feature. I'm enjoying my own "unwinding lush Tuesday afternoon".

I’m grateful for the life of @BrownCSDept’s Eugene Charniak who passed on Tuesday. His “Statistical Language Learning” book helped pave the way for me into #NLP in the late 90s.

The more I learn about #prompt engineering #LLM the more it seems another step in structured programming langs. Hallucinations are corner cases and inner monologue is recursion. Just as programmers provided less structure in Java than in C++ they provide less to GPT4 than to GPT3

#ChatGPT is impressive, like having a clever high schooler for each domain of human knowledge answer any request. Its output is not innovative or insightful but seems competent. I empathize with those of us trying to detect when it’s not competent…and with high school teachers.

@bernhardsson @swyx It depends in what way they’re advanced. If solely technically then yes, a bias to build. But if also advanced in decision making among multiple stakeholders then no. The head of engineering is usually more inclined to buy than the integrating engineer who loves infra problems.

@swyx I think you're right if you're talking about everyday stuff. For some super advanced stuff, I think there's definitely a bias towards build vs buy for those buyers (because the buyers are super advanced)

My brutal Venn diagram who's going to buy an infra product: buyer (a) has the technical problem (b) realizes they need this tool (c) doesn't want to build it themselves (d) can integrate easily

@841io ...the makings of a fun discussion at the hotel bar on which group does the best job deriving meaning from language.

strong altman vibes at breakfast as my hotel simultaneously hosts attendees of the orthodox church of america conference, ICML, and the scrabble players championship.

Why have hack time? To empower folks to do something they think is valuable for the org without having to do the usual convincing of their leads that it's valuable. It's an acknowledgement by leads that your own perception of what's valuable is imperfect.

@jcloudm @SpotifyEng @RynnSounds Our pleasure, my friend. And I just discovered @RynnSounds thanks to you. Yeehaw.

My friends at @SpotifyEng are sending me some great new stuff this month. Thanks for helping me discover @RynnSounds and McKenna Breinholt. I guess the soundtrack January 2022 is vibey.

When your values are a firm foundation and your mission is an inspiring aspiration, good things happen... newsweek.com/2021/10/29/spo…

@plamere I feel ya, Paul.

Abstract factory anyone? twitter.com/daubman/status…

Excited to be charting the future of knowledge work (from anywhere) the Spotify way! #MachineLearning friends — if location was a barrier, look again! spotifyjobs.com

Glad my favorite leadership podcast @patricklencioni celebrated work friends (link.tospotify.com/82otSrURpab), but I’d amend to say friendships at work are different because of a 3rd party: the org, which complicates things because of varying accountabilities and time spent together.

@fulhack Expecting negotiation doesn’t mean making an unfair offer. Never do that. It just seems unrealistic to expect the right offer to start. It might be only when reviewing it that the candidate realizes they need a one-off vacation bump or a different mix of salary and equity.

@dmurga ... but I could be wrong? Trying to form an opinion, so counterpoints are welcome :)

What's a typical industry % of hiring offers that lead to negotiations? And what is ideal? My thinking is that it should be relatively low but not too low. 25%?

@xamat What‘s the purpose? Some senior+ mgrs learn new kinds of tech in part via coding exercises in a course. The problem with part time coding is coping with accidental complexities swamps learnings from essential complexities. This is much less the case is *reading* code, so do that.

@plamere @Jiminy_Kirket +1 to sidestep via “finer” and “coarser”

@Jiminy_Kirket I feel like a detective, dusting the furniture

“more granular” should mean “less detailed”, not “more detailed” - e.g. film, sugar. Change My Mind.

Glad for reminders from the always entertaining @mlittmancs in this episode that humanity-centered ML requires considering unintended consequences and that #ReinforcementLearning has a ways to go from data-rich simulations to broad real world impact.