In This Issue
- What Caught My Attention This Week
- Shopify CEO: Prove jobs can’t be done by AI before asking for more headcount.
- 2/3 of jobs posted on Indeed include tasks that can be done by AI.
- Sam Altman: If can’t tell the difference, how much do you care?
- Apple Intelligence’s future is no more in the hands of John Giannandrea.
- Prompting
- Seth Godin on learning how to prompt.
- The Tools of the Trade
- Meta has already started cheating on the performance of LLaMA.
- The Way We Work Now
- Teachers love using AI, but the privilege is not for the students.
- 20% of Salesforce code is now written by AI.
- How Do You Feel?
- How I feel about LLMs, sometimes.
What Caught My Attention This Week
Shopify CEO: Prove jobs can’t be done by AI before asking for more headcount.
Tobi Lutke shares on X a memo, titled “Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify”, that he recently sent to Shopify employees:
We are entering a time where more merchants and entrepreneurs could be created than any other in history. We often talk about bringing down the complexity curve to allow more people to choose this as a career. Each step along the entrepreneurial path is rife with decisions requiring skill, judgement and knowledge. Having AI alongside the journey and increasingly doing not just the consultation, but also doing the work for our merchants is a mindblowing step function change here.
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What we have learned so far is that using AI well is a skill that needs to be carefully learned by… using it a lot. It’s just too unlike everything else.
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What This Means
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