Paul Modderman
@PaulModderman
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Principal Nerd @boringnerds, author. @paulmodderman.bsky.social
Minnetonka, MN
Joined November 2014
RT @BoringNerds: Confused by the latest SAP "clean core" hubbub? Let's break it down and crack it wide open! How did 3 tiers become 4 level….
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Every business needs this, like, 18 months ago.
We are opening up a new role at Quora: a single engineer who will use AI to automate manual work across the company and increase employee productivity. I will work closely with this person.
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“…there’s a good chance that, when we look back on this era in human history, AI will have been the thing that matters.”.
I wish more people were taking seriously the possibility that @ezraklein and the leadership of the AI labs are raising: that AGI is a real possibility in the near future. You don't have to buy it yourself, but leaders & policymakers need to consider the possibility it is true.
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(Because I am in the same camp that she is on this discussion).
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I’ve enjoyed this whole discussion. I especially appreciate @AmandaAskell ‘s formulation in the first sentence of this tweet. I’m often not sure how to respond to those who make the same inferential leap, and this formulation helps my communication. Thank you, Amanda.
I claimed the inference from X="LLMs are next token predictors" to Y="LLMs lack understanding, etc." is fallacious. Marcus claims that I'm saying not-X and not-Y. So I guess I'll point out that the inference "Y doesn't follow from X" to "not-X and not-Y" is also fallacious.
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I don’t know what numbers I’d have guessed, but software dev being a top use is exactly what I’d have guessed prior to seeing the data. AI/LLMs might not be perfect software engineers yet, but they sure as hell know about code.
Interesting! Based on “The @AnthropicAI Economic Index” (millions of Claude conversations) AI usage is currently concentrated in software development and technical writing. TL;DR:.💻 Computer & Mathematical jobs dominate AI usage (37.2% of queries) despite being only 3.4% of
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Even if you doubt whether an LLM can truly “think”, to get the best results you should treat it as if it can.
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Knowing what you want and communicating clearly are incredible superpowers. good function calling = good prompting.good code output = good prompting.clear AI goals = good prompting.
The 80/20 of AI Agents is basically:. - know xml.- know what a webhook is.- know how to use an api.- be good at prompting. Anything beyond that is just model capability + creativity.
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in my experience Claude has easily been the funniest model.
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“Will top AIs get better at [x] faster than all apps [some related y]?” . Yes.
@ID_AA_Carmack The question is will top AIs get better at gui faster than all apps add text. I think I have a guess.
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People just need education and examples. Probably more so just the examples. When I show folks what can be done with AI, they immediately have like 8 more ideas.
If you look around with the right mindset, there are >20%-50% efficiency gains sitting pretty much everywhere.
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RT @OfficialLoganK: If you look around with the right mindset, there are >20%-50% efficiency gains sitting pretty much everywhere.
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Demo of Claude Engineer, a tool by @skirano that is blowing my mind. video in the replies. amazing work @AnthropicAI.
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RT @BoringNerds: Nerdletter Talk 72 is out on YT! This is the last one of 2024. (You made it, yay!) It's a limited edition that will soon….
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RT @BoringNerds: New Nerdcast episode is out! ABAP Cloud (and more!) SAP Press book author Aleks Debelic @aledeb70 returns to chat about a….
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Use AI to help you edit/refine. Don’t use to to shovel crap into already crap-filled feeds.
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analysis estimates over half of long form English posts on linkedin are AI generated. my personal extended analysis estimates that I hate 97% of those posts.
A new analysis estimates that over half of longer English-language posts on LinkedIn are AI-generated, indicating the platform’s embrace of AI tools has been a success.
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one trillion kabillion percent agree.
The overwhelming focus from X on the future of GenAI is understandable but, boy, is it blinding people to what is possible with current models. From my conversations, companies are now seeing impacts and more & more talent is being directed towards use, tooling & exploration.
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