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Technology & AI

Essays about artificial intelligence, software, and the compression of digital work.

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Technology & AI

The Compression

Sometime around 2015, there was an office in a WeWork. The walls were exposed brick. The desks were reclaimed wood. They were building a website for a premium dog treat brand. The project would take four months and cost $180,000. And then, very quickly, a large language model learned to do most of it.

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