Judgement > Output
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The benefit of conference season is talking to a lot of people (the downside: needing antibiotics), and of course many of those conversations came to AI, explicitly or not. But underneath the obvious shift there’s an industry one, which started with the end of ZIRP and AI exacerbated. An industry that used to be quite cushy has become more cut-throat. You could call it “higher expectations”, which is often understood to mean higher output.
When output was expensive, we used the cost of it to sidestep a lot of poorly judged ideas by saying they were too much work…
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