Missing the /s? Most people have a calculator in their pocket all the time now.
I remember having to split bar tabs by hand at the end of the night without a calculator. The waiter delivers a hand-written bill, and we'd calculate how much each person owed, splitting drinks individually and food equally, recalculating tax and tip to derive each person's total. We'd pool the cash in the middle of the table (with people taking their own change as they go where possible), then counting all the cash and making sure it still included sufficient tip. All after many pints. I do NOT miss those days.
Guns N' Roses blazed this trail in 1986 with their faux live EP titled Live ?!@ Like a Suicide [0] which was reissued as the B-side to G N' R Lies in 1988.
> Take away the agent, and Bob is still a first-year student who hasn't started yet. The year happened around him but not inside him. He shipped a product, but he didn't learn a trade.
We're minting an entire generation of people completely dependent on VC funding. What happens if/when the AI companies fail to find a path to profitability and the VC funding dries up?
What will happen is pretty obvious. Those companies will either be classified as too important to fail and get government support or go bankrupt and will be bought for pennies on the dollar. For the customers nothing much will change since tokens are getting cheaper every year and the business is already pretty profitable. Progress will slow down massively till local open weight models catch up to pre-crash SotA and go on from there.
ChatGPT 3.5 came out coming on 4 years ago now. I don't think a human generation (~20-30 years) needs to be the benchmark here, but new juniors in the industry for a handful of years can be said to be a whole "generation". That how I was reading OP.
The 47 Lansdowne bus in Toronto has this problem with at least three locations (on the short section of the route that I take):
1. In the Dundas/College triangle, there are are 2 stops less than 100m apart.
2. At the Queen St turnaround, there are 4 stops all within 150m of each other
3. At Bloor St, there are 2 stops 100m apart
These are all within a single 2km section of the bus's 10km route.
One of my large enterprise clients currently requires all tech staff to complete 18h (yes, eighteen hours!) of "agile training", in addition to speed-running 14 separate mandatory online courses.
This time would be much better spent watching these 9h of lectures.
It sounds like you didn't have a very good coach. My first coach wasn't very helpful, my second was amazing. Keep looking!
Open mic nights at your local bar are a great source of data. Approach people after their performance, compliment them, and ask them if they have a coach they'd be willing recommend.
I remember having to split bar tabs by hand at the end of the night without a calculator. The waiter delivers a hand-written bill, and we'd calculate how much each person owed, splitting drinks individually and food equally, recalculating tax and tip to derive each person's total. We'd pool the cash in the middle of the table (with people taking their own change as they go where possible), then counting all the cash and making sure it still included sufficient tip. All after many pints. I do NOT miss those days.
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