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Shipper: Driving is easier to automate than knowledge work because roads are static
“The difference is that the roads, even though things are complex and dynamic and all that kind of stuff on the road, the roads are the same. Like that's the same roads. You're getting from point A to point B and the way that that works, like you, there's a zil…”
Shipper: Software is now content because building apps has become so cheap
“I think that software is now content. It's like so cheap to make that it's sort of like building an app is sort of like writing an essay or tweeting.”
Shipper: Prompting LLMs on internal meeting transcripts generates honest company handbooks
“I have a recipe on there that I made that I really liked it, that was really cool, which is, Go through all of my internal meetings and write our company handbook from what you see. And I want you to capture all of the unspoken ways that every works as a compa…”
Shipper: Effective ghostwriters interview subjects instead of instantly generating output
“Good ghost writers. When you say, Hey, I want you to tweet about this or blog post about this ghost, ghost writers. Don't go ahead and say, great. I did it. Here it is. What they do is they say, okay, well, what was interesting to you about this article? What …”
Shipper: AI evaluations smuggle in human intelligence through task setup
“And to do all of the things you need to do in order to set up the eval is a job. And so the eval is what I'm saying is smuggling a lot of human intelligence into it because in order to take a like complex and dynamic activity, like doing a job and turn it into…”