Chester Beard

Create a draft by drawing together these stand-alone sections. If transitions between sections are hard to write, you may have some sections in the wrong spot or need to add new ones. #thesis #draft

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I wrote a story recently about how the introduction of AI code-writing tools is disrupting the software industry and changing what jobs look like for many developers. But all I could think about while reporting this was how it offers a preview of what could happen in my own industry, journalism, in years to come. AI can now write pretty effective code very quickly. Rather than obsessing over the minutiae of their code bases, developers spend their days “vibe coding,” letting AI do the work while they edit the results. For a while, it was seen as taboo to let AI take the reins — until a well-respected developer, Andrej Karpathy, posted online that he had been doing so. Then, the floodgates opened overnight. People were posting about how they were doing it secretly, and it became the cool thing to do. There were some holdouts and critics, but most of them I’ve spoken with have changed their minds because using AI is just so easy. There is no longer a future in which code is being written without AI. Many journalists are using AI to aid in their reporting, like transcribing interviews and summarizing documents. Generating an entire article with AI would raise some eyebrows of peers, though. Still, I don’t think it’s outlandish to say something like this could happen in journalism in a few years, where a significant part of our original, feature-length stories are written by AI, with a heavy hand in human editing. Coders aren’t all that different from journalists. They have their own writing style and take pride in the ability to do a job not many others have the skills to do. How quickly they turned, because of how good the tools became, is indicative of how fast the status quo in media may change when presented with AI whose writing is indistinguishable from a human’s. Thoughts?

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For those in media planning/buying, consider requesting IP audits as a minimum requirement. When a whopping 80% of traffic is from illegitimate sources, especially when it comes to an entire economy devoted to rage farming, think twice about what platforms you support.

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Writing For Humans: Reviewing AI-generated content for grammatical errors would almost seem unnecessary, but it’s not! It’s a vital step in the content creation workflow. Expert human AI editors must be on the lookout for these types of errors — errors that can be both embarrassing and costly.   https://lnkd.in/eZ8QmHcM #ai #artificialintelligence #contentstrategy #publicrelations #marketing #advertising

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Bruce Davie argues we need to consider a middle ground between the "AI is just hype" and the "AGI will take our jobs and worse" camps. Davie has a lot to contribute to this conversation, as he played a key role in bridging the divide between asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) and TCP/IP in the early days of the Internet. Both sides at the extremes pushed back against the middle approach. Ultimately, his persistence helped incorporate ATM into some of the high-reliability and high-performance links widely used in Internet networking today. A similar system-level rethink of AI and enterprise processes in general is in order today.

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