Why I write: on technology and writing! ⚔️🖋️📜

Time to discuss my departure, comeback, and motivations for writing:

Before we continue, heartfelt gratitude to loyal friends, followers, and connections for supporting me.

About me:
- I possess a unique perspective
- I embrace my emotions
- I pave my own path

Being my friend is a challenge.
I deeply value those who have made the effort.

Now, let's talk about why I stopped writing.

Frankly, I burned the f*ck out.

For 10 years, I've run my career with the militance of a field marshal.

12-14 hour days. 70-100 hour weeks.

Not because I had to. Because I could.

Those days are over now.

Now that I'm in my 30s, I'm forced to slow down.

Time with friends. Rest. Relaxation.

I very much took these activities for granted.

I very much disregarded my own needs as a human.

I need sleep. I need fun. I crave a family of my own.

I've learned to seek a balance.

If you've made it this far, you once again have my utmost gratitude.

Like many of you, I'm not that comfortable with talking about myself.

So let's talk about the reasons I feel that I must continue this journey.

In the early days, I learned to write for a simple reason: to express myself.

Something about arranging the characters on my screen into the perfect combination of words is soothing to my soul. Perhaps you're the same.

Then, after some time, writing became something more.

Writing can also be used as a tool, or a weapon.

Writing can purify our thinking.
Writing can persuade our counter-parties.
Writing can change our minds, and even make us money.

But none of these reasons were ever good enough for me in the end.

I am writing to you now for one purpose:

I believe the future of our species hangs on the balance of the technology we are building right now.

I return to the arena of content creation to lift my voice into that public forum, to join you in discussion, and to shed light.

Let's be clear: I don't have all the answers.

I am fallible.
I am passionate.
Sometimes, I am wrong.

I freely admit my weakness and frailty as a human being.

But let's talk about what I bring to the table:

I am credible.
I am technical.
And above all else, I am pro-humankind.

I implore you: do your favorite influencers meet these criteria?

In the coming weeks, here are some topics we'll explore together:

- Artificial Intelligence and its impact on our future
- Regulation of technology, legislation, and what we can do
- What are and are not reasonable fears concerning technology

Let's discuss.

On Technology and Writing

unless you’re top 1% (rich or technical) it won’t matter for you when AGI is achieved *in a lab*

the point of inflection for you is when AGI becomes *generally available*

for at least the next decade, you should be looking to combine “AI” with traditional rules based software

what do I mean? 

Consider a project I worked on recently. 

We had a nice little prompt that created some neatly formatted output.

The moment we introduced a new requirement to the prompt, the output collapsed.

I mean, the output literally stopped making sense.

the solution was to use TRADITIONAL programming methods (JavaScript and CSS) to format the output

it’s good separation of concerns - LLM for the content, JS/CSS for the display layer

but also you should learn that trivial (but predictable) software PAIRED with machine learning

…can create products that are 1000x more complex while remaining reliable than what is possible right now using purely machine learning / artificial intelligence models. ✌️

On AGI and GA

why would you ever want to go sober? 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

I'm just a former frat boy. My parties were legendary.

I’ve always lived life in the here and now. Never had a care for tomorrow.

I had so much fun drinking and partying, for a while. But one day, everything changed...

When I turned… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1706486561934586218 

I know due to the subject matter of this post that it’s not going to get a lot of replies. 

If you would like to speak with me privately, my DMs are opened to followers ❤️ 

I am always interested to hear your story and lend my support.