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In this atmosphere of excited tweets about simulated conversations with an 'AI', let's not lose sight that they are mostly *language* models. They model language as a sophisticated, human-produced data layer of extreme complexity, but *not* of consciousness or sentience.

For one, I wouldn’t be able to do any of this if I didn’t know how to code. Right now it enables me to do stuff I already know how to do, much faster. But there’s a lot of built up expertise that goes into knowing what to ask it to do, and understanding its output.

@julien_c I doubt it. And it was never "engineering." It was closer to a copywriting craft based on hearsay. That said, prompt "chaining" and model combination flows is where we're already going.

Genuinely wondering whether Prompt engineering will still be a thing at the end of 2023

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Creating a list of ChatGPT prompts to make the product manager life easier. Reply 🤖 below if you’d like me to send it to you.

@johncutlefish Are you saying this is allegorical of a certain product development process?

the best ideas i ever shipped came from engineers on my team. an engineer's job is NOT only to code. they are incredible problem solvers and are ridiculously creative. they understand the tech, know what is possible, and will be building it. involve them early and often!

@schmatzarella @robinysmith I also experienced the “great vector awakening.” Mine is built with a Go back end, but the results are just as impressive, using OpenAI’s embedding and Pinecone. It’s worth diving into the math of computing vectors and their similarity formulas, and which makes sense for you.

Mind is blown: just built a semantic search app in a few hours with OpenAI embeddings and Pinecone DB in a few hours for under $1. And it works SO WELL. Even just a few years ago this would be been orders of magnitude more expensive and a lot more tedious

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It's a pattern that occurs at many startup orgs, usually during a product crisis. Followed by farming off engineering work, which often fails and wastes a ton of money. Then if you're lucky, there will be a shakeout at the top, and you get the chance to hire the right talent.

@noahsussman Learned the hard way: if during your interview, you're told that they want you as "right hand" because they need to "manage up" ... RUN.

This. If you haven’t ever worked in a corporate environment this will shock you! But the rest of us just 🙄 because this is how it always is.

@realGeorgeHotz Agreed with @BorisMPower. I've been working with vector embeddings for semantic search, and my results are way better than when I used full text search on inverted indexes. Much easier too, and OpenAI has an embedding API to help with the calc, but you can embed tweets yourself.

Don’t be that kind of leader, and if you find a kind manager to work for, appreciate them and do your best work!

The toxicity flows from above that manager, usually by one cloaked by a political veneer. And in that situation, if you’re not a toxic manager, you will be pushed out yourself.

@Grady_Booch @ben_mckenzie @vogueblackheart @yawaramin @edels0n @smdiehl @Nouriel @FoldableHuman @molly0xFFF @SilvermanJacob @CasPiancey @BennettTomlin Just make sure you measure your worth by lines of code.

The early crypto skeptics deserve more credit. Not only did they call all of this, they did so in the face of constant shaming and harrassment. (Not to mention everyone pointing to the increasing value of their crypto wallets as evidence that they were wrong.)

I don't have data to support this (and I'd like to see responses with it), but in the tech industry, layoffs during recessions beget the next generation of huge startups.

@sonyatweetybird @sequoia *would not be

@sonyatweetybird @sequoia Perhaps I missed an in-depth examination of how this was derived, but why would OpenAI's offerings not included? I can see reasons why they would, or would not be, but I assume you have a reason you might share.

Introducing the @sequoia Gen AI Market Map!🌎 We’ve decided to map out this emerging frontier, thanks to all the contributions and feedback we’ve received. This space is moving quickly – this map is a living document, so keep the suggestions coming! Who else should we include?

@nestorduprey Para mí no sería desayuno del sábado sin PL. Abro los ojos con el café, pero me despierta Palabra Libre.

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