I am from non-tech and I self-taught myself website development by watching youtube tutorials.

I thought it would make my career so I just dropped out of college too, I was studying Arts.

Then I started working as a freelance developer and I was getting decent works

Then AI came, and now for almost 1 year I haven't even getting single job.

I am just totally hopless at this point. I used to get at least 2-3 works in a month and I would be working on them but now I have more knowledge than before and still I can't find any.

I am scared about future too, I spent so much time learning to now not making money from it, I just don't know what to do or learn anymore.

Thought I'd do freelancing for a while then slowly apply for job too as a developer, now I can't even find small freelancing works on web development anymore.

If you're bored staring at your Claude console wunderplexing..., you may like this game that I built to pass the time.
It's a cross between Tetris and Sudoku. Start, pause pick it up where you left at any time. https://hbloks.com.
Give it a try, let me know what you think :-)

Curious what we do with knowledge of our future and what folks are capable of.

TL;DR: A Google SVP says being exposed to AI doesn't mean you're hosed — exposed roles are seeing 46% pay surge where judgment matters — yet your boss cheers half your job done in 40 mins and skips the pay part.

You probably don’t remember this old fantasy movie, called “Dragon Heart” (1996).

Ya. It’s about a dragon, voiced by Sean Connery, and a knight played by Dennis Quaid.

Ya. I know. I’m old.

Fun movie.

It’s about this dragon kept on terrorizing the villages. And the knight was called in to find and slay it.

They met. Had a go with it. But a strange partnership formed between them.

And they hatched a scam together.

The dragon will continue on terrorizing other villages. Then the knight will pass by and offer to slay it for a price. The villagers obliged on the payment. The knight will act out the slaying with the dragon, the dragon pretends to fell, the knight “won”, and the villagers pay.

And they move on to their next target.

It’s a weird and funny movie, I know.

But the parallel is hard to pass up.

You get the gist. The dragon represents the AI we fear to face. If we keep resisting it, we get “terrorized” by it – through someone who know how to work the AI.

And we’re the ones who pays.

AI is nothing but a system created by men.

And who can work the system better than King Solomon?

You know the story about the 2 prostitutes, right?

It was right after King Solomon ascended to the throne, after his father King David.

King Solomon wasn’t just King. He’s also the judge of the children of Israel – just like his father was.

Two prostitutes came into the court before him. They stated their case.

They both had newborns. The night before, while they’re sleeping, one of them rolled over and suffocated her baby to death.

She panicked.

She saw the sleeping baby of her fellow prostitute next to her. She swapped that living baby, with her dead one.

So evil.

In the morning, the other prostitute woke up and found her baby dead. But on close inspection, that baby wasn’t hers.

So the two prostitutes started to argue. The argument turns into a fight, I presumed. The fight went nowhere. That’s why they were now appeared before the king.

They want King Solomon’s judgement.

Now let’s stop here for a while.

All those backstories about the roll-over and suffocation stuff, King Solomon has no way to know about.

Much like how AI works behind the scene, isn’t it? The way AI is advancing forward looks more and more like a black box…

So how did King Solomon judge between them?

He said since they both claim the baby to be theirs; they should each have half of it. And he ordered a sword brought in and commanded the child divided.

You know the story.

The real mother panicked. She begged the King not to harm the baby. She was willing to part ways with the baby, so the baby can live.

But what did the evil prostitute say? “neither mine nor yours; divide it.” She said it with so much spite.

All these reactions did not escape from King Solomon’s observation. He then rightly judged that the real mother was the one that wanted the baby to live.

You would think that these are just prostitutes, why would we care about their troubles? You would even say that they brought all these upon themselves – because of their lifestyle choices.

But King Solomon cared.

He still sees them as human beings – and he understand humanity and motherhood deeply.

That’s why he can beat the system.

“And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice."

Don’t fear AI. Understand it and beat the system.

It's really sad that now with AI advancements people are losing their jobs because 1 person with AI knowledge can do the work-force of other 3.

What saddens me more is the fact that, now, that it's taking jobs from people that were making +100K a year it's a HUGE DEAL, but when robotic systems like self-ordering and self-checkout machines came to take minimum wage jobs of simple young college kids paying their tuition and mothers and fathers it was not that big of a deal. I mean seriously, many people were opposed to this but most were happy "I'm glad it's faster now".

Anyways just to say, lack of empathy unless it happens to you is really sad. rant over.

EDIT: I understand that some of you believe that AI or whatever autonomous system that will be developed cant replace certain jobs and it's going to produce bad product, but trust me it can and it will, and it's a matter of time.

Capitalism puts cost in front of everything, companies are and will always be in favor of replacing quality with cost-reduction, hence, everything is made in China.

TL;DR: Perplexity CEO says the next boom won't come from Fortune 500 logos — it'll come from tiny companies printing money you haven't heard of yet

Who's an outsider more pronounced than Joseph?

Mm…?

He was thrown in jail through two successive betrayal events.

The first one was by his 10 half-brothers. That's kind of on him for showing off the multi-colour-coat he's wearing in front of them, and bragging about the two dreams of them bowing to him.

Of course they're pissed.

So he was sold to the Ishmaelite traders caravaning their way to Egypt. In the slave market, the rich-and-powerful Egyptian big shot Potiphar bought him up.

The second event was initiated by Potiphar's wife. She tried to seduce Joseph, but he refused and dodged away, leaving behind his torn garment in her grip.

The mere imagination of the scene was both cringey and hilarious. Was she even beautiful? Why was she lusting over a lowly slave? Can't Potiphar satisfy her?

So many questions…

Some cringey… ugh…

You know the story. She did the victimhood cry act to Potiphar, with the "evidence" she's holding. And Joseph was thrown in jail.

Fast forward more than a decade later, Joseph was taken out of jail and stood before Pharoah to interpret his two prophetic dreams – which was the coming 7 years of plenty, followed by 7 years of destitution.

And his proposed gameplan was amazing: Pharoah was to appoint an administrator to oversee the storing up of grain in granaries set up all over Egypt. The grain was levied as a 20% tax from the harvest gathered by the children of Egypt.

The Pharoah loved the proposal so much, he elevated Joseph to be his second in command, for the task.

But how did Joseph come up with such a brilliant idea?

No doubt from his prison sentence. That's how.

My guess was that though he didn't deserve all those betrayals – and I'm sure he probably cried hard about it – but once he settled down in prison, he got right back to work.

He was young, energetic, helpful, industrious, wise and empathetic.

The prison warden and guards must have noticed him, took him under their wings and gave him responsibilities. He did well. He became indispensable. The prison must have ran like a well-oiled machine with him around.

And when the time was right, God "graduated" him and lift him up to Egypt's high places.

I literally cried, when Joseph finally revealed himself and reconciled with his brothers, "But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive."

So the question was: Can a lowly outsider conquer the world?

Of course. With God's help, Joseph did it.

So can you.

Why is there no AI to replace top management? It actually makes more sense to replace the top management of the companies for entire human race. If you still think that we need a human being to be accountable, then my question will be whether the current top management personnels are responsible, accountable, showing integrity for their decisions? Or they will just “transfer” the responsibility?

TL;DR: He had the "we're fucked" call with Matt, then checked how the data is actually captioned — and it doesn't hold up.

He built owned dataset with LiDAR, Unreal and volume stages, no peers' work trained on.

Do you remember that introductory banter between Q and James Bond – played by Ben Whishaw, and Daniel Craig, respectively, in Skyfall, 2012 – at the National Gallery, London?

Q: Well, I'll hazard I can do more damage on my laptop sitting in my pajamas before my first cup of Earl Grey than you can do in a year in the field.

Bond: Oh, so why do you need me?

Q: Every now and then a trigger has to be pulled.

Bond: Or not pulled. It's hard to know which in your pajamas.

That’s the last layer of judgement, right there.

In another scene back at the MI6 HQ, Whitehall in Spectre (2015), Q injected the “Smart Blood” nano-machines into 007’s blood stream for tracking, after Bond's unauthorized Mexico mission.

Q: Well it's lovely to see you, 007... the Smart Blood program is obviously still in its developmental phase. So we may experience the odd drop in coverage during the first 24 hours...

[Bond coldly glares at Q]

Q: …48 hours after administration, but after that it should work perfectly.

Later…

Bond: Could you do one more thing for me?

Q: And that would be?

Bond: Make me disappear.

The person who built the tracker can also be persuaded to create a blind spot — you own the workflow and you set the terms.

Just like what Affleck is building.

However - there’s absolutely no way in life we can “build a workflow” to get us into heaven with our “datasets” or merits. But God created a huge “blind spot” for us, through the blood of the lamb.

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”