I do see fun as a respit from this obsession with productivity but I also see this conflict where people will start doing something for fun and then this need for productivity is so deeply ingrained they'll turn it into a side hustle.

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when software doesn't do what it's supposed to do, it has a bug. And as AI becomes more widely deployed, labs need the same kind of telemetry, debugging, incident reporting, and operational discipline that previous generations of software eventually developed.

Steven Sinofsky — The a16z Show

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Steven takes aim at terms like "alignment," "goal-seeking," and "rogue agents," arguing that they can anthropomorphize problems that software engineers have dealt with for decades. His framing is simpler: when software doesn't do what it's supposed to do, it has a bug.

The a16z Show

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