http://simonwillison.net/2024-10-20T23:16:25+00:00Simon Willison2024-10-20T23:16:25+00:002024-10-20T23:16:25+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/20/knowledge-worker/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/knowledge-worker">Knowledge Worker</a></strong></p> Forrest Brazeal:</p> <blockquote> <p>Last month, I performed a 30-minute show called "Knowledge Worker" for the incredible audience at Gene Kim's ETLS in Las Vegas.</p> <p>The show included 7 songs about the past, present, and future of "knowledge work" - or, more specifically, how it's affecting <em>us,</em> the humans between keyboard and chair<em>.</em> I poured everything I've been thinking and feeling about AI for the last 2+ years into this show, and I feel a great sense of peace at having said what I meant to say.</p> </blockquote> <p>Videos of all seven songs are included in the post, with accompanying liner notes. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZhhO7MGknQ">AGI (Artificial God Incarnate)</a> is a <em>banger</em>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrfEUZ0UvRo">What’s Left for Me? (The AI Existential Crisis Song)</a> captures something I've been trying to think through for a while. <p><small></small>Via <a href="https://toot.cafe/@matt/113342087245249899">Matt Campbell</a></small></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/music">music</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/forrest-brazeal">forrest-brazeal</a></p>

2024-08-31T12:52:47+00:002024-08-31T12:52:47+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/31/forrest-brazeal/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-death-of-the-modified-developer"><p>I think that AI has killed, or is about to kill, pretty much every single modifier we want to put in front of the word “developer.”</p> <p>“.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive in an afternoon … <em>as long as you’ve done enough other programming that you know what to prompt</em>.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-death-of-the-modified-developer">Forrest Brazeal</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai">ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/generative-ai">generative-ai</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms">llms</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-assisted-programming">ai-assisted-programming</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/forrest-brazeal">forrest-brazeal</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/cursor">cursor</a></p>

2024-07-31T20:58:04+00:002024-07-31T20:58:04+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/31/forrest-brazeal/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-end-of-the-everything-cloud"><p>For the past 10 years or so, AWS has been rolling out these peripheral services at an astonishing rate, dozens every year. A few get traction, most don’t—but they all stick around, undead zombies behind impressive-looking marketing pages, because historically AWS just doesn’t make many breaking changes. [...]</p> <p>AWS made this mess for themselves by rushing all sorts of half-baked services to market. The mess had to be cleaned up at some point, and they’re doing that. But now they’ve explicitly revealed something to customers: <em>The new stuff we release isn’t guaranteed to stick around.</em></p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="https://newsletter.goodtechthings.com/p/the-end-of-the-everything-cloud">Forrest Brazeal</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/aws">aws</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/forrest-brazeal">forrest-brazeal</a></p>