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2024

bliki: Yagni

Link: bliki: Yagni: "Yagni ("You Aren't Gonna Need It") is the principle that we should not build presumptive features. It should not be used as a justification for neglecting internal quality."

Another longer article about YAGNI by the pretty-famous Martin Fowler.

AI Superhuman?

Link: AI Superhuman?: "What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?"

This article takes a stab at putting current and future AIs, capabilities into some context. They define some gradations of AGI and explain why some of them will be achieved sooner than others.

AI Isn’t Good Enough - by SK Ventures

Link: AI Isn’t Good Enough - by SK Ventures: "On a recent cross-country trip—I (Paul) drove from California to Illinois and back again. On the drive, I saw a sign I had never seen before: In a McDonald’s window it said $1,000 SIGNING BONUS. That was not a thing when I was a teenager doing minimum-wage jobs. No one paid you $1,000 signing bonuses to work for fast-food restaurants."

How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math

Link: How LLMs Work, Explained Without Math: "I'm sure you agree that it has become impossible to ignore Generative AI (GenAI), as we are constantly bombarded with mainstream news about Large Language Models (LLMs). Very likely you have tried…"

Excellent overview with code. Can't say for sure that it is a true/accurate explanation or just a clever oversimplified analogy.