Ben Thompson
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42,103 appearances
120 recordings
2 series
first heard Sep 2024
last heard 21 Aug
Ben Thompson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And
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That's right.
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And and so your enterprise has always been willing to pay for productivity.
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And so at least like for for like your coder or whatever, you typically get a a very, a very good computer and would be updated fairly regularly so that you could work and the computer could respond and you could continue your work.
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And there is a bit now where more and more of that work is obviously being done by the computer.
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Uh and the more these agents are capable, there's this there's a couple weird things going on.
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One, you're having
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The agent go and do something and then like what are you doing in the meantime?
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Maybe you could spin up another agent to do something else.
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Uh, but are you like are you losing your own context, mental context?
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I know for me, I'm certainly having a hard time sort of switching gears sometimes.
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There's also this weird bit where people have token budgets and like they or quad code will have their limitations uh of how much usage and then they'll use it up.
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Yeah.
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It's like, well, guess I gotta go home for the day.
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Like what
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Yeah.
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What do I do now?
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This is
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right.
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Am I gonna like just r go back to working the way I used to for the next three hours?
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