Moving on with life, one workplace to another. Since quitting from previous company, take more time with little one, since he had autism diagnosed couple years ago, with him, we (me and wife) visit quite a lot of therapy center.

And this time, Alhamdulillah, I’m back to the workforce again, with a lot of hope and dreams obviously, and pray that everything that we fought for does not wasted.

This video speaks my worries, the thing that we probably think it is a harmless thing, like scrolling our phone, watching youtube, netflix or any other media consumption service, their main focus is our focus, our attention (some call it attention economy), even our time as human.

We might not notice it, or notice it but tend or choose to ignore it, how many time we talk with our friends, families? talk as in an offline activity exchange words between two people or more, facing each other, not via whatsapp, email or other tools.

In the video there’s people who bring actual grass to an event, to give them sense how to feel touching grass, real grass, mind boggling.

It’s a reminder that there’s a lot of thing in the outside world, not just your TikTok feeds, Instagram reels etc, in 2017, Netflix even double down to monitize this loneliness, saying that sleep is their competitor, THE sleep, the thing that we need to do, not to mention other things like praying, playing with kids, family.

Still about A.I, and the rise of AI, and it was not about the will rule the world with menace and kill every human like Terminator or The Matrix, it’s our job, human deem to inefficient, obviously this is about money/revenue/profit of the company that adopt AI without considering human in its part, combined with company search for more profits, could be deadly for human.

Article from The Verge, https://www.theverge.com/news/688679/amazon-ceo-andy-jassy-ai-efficiency

“As we roll out more Generative AI and agents, it should change the way our work is done,” Jassy says. “We will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today, and more people doing other types of jobs.”

And article from Bloomberg, where Microsoft reduce human workforce.

The terminations would follow a previous round of layoffs in May that hit 6,000 people and fell hardest on product and engineering positions, largely sparing customer-facing roles like sales and marketing.

I think there will be more to come, not sure when this trend will stop.

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I have been stuck. Every time I sit down to write a blog post, code a feature, or start a project, I come to the same realization: in the context of AI, what I’m doing is a waste of time. It’s horrifying. The fun has been sucked out of the process of creation because nothing I make organically can compete with what AI already produces—or soon will.

Kena banget, seperti yang dibahas di postingan sebelumnya, mengenai hubungan AI dan cognitive decay, untuk yang sebelumnya menggunakan otaknya untuk berpikir, kontemplasi, menciptakan ide-ide yang melatih otak kita sendiri, atau bahkan share ide-ide itu dengan orang lain, untuk braindstorm atau validasi, menjadi berubah, di satu sisi memang dimudahkan, kita tinggal lempar prompt, kemudian AI akan memberikan jawaban yang mungkin kita tidak pernah pikirkan.

Developing a prompt is like scrolling Netflix, and reading the output is like watching a TV show. Intellectual rigor comes from the journey: the dead ends, the uncertainty, and the internal debate. Skip that, and you might still get the insight–but you’ll have lost the infrastructure for meaningful understanding.

Fungsi pencarian diri, pemikiran, kemudian pengaktualisasikan ide, menunggu ide itu berkembang, dipotong prosesnya, karena cognitive offloading yang kita berikan ke “second brain”, yang jadi pikiran berikutnya, apakah pengetahuan yang kita cari dengan bantuan AI itu akan stay? atau malah hilang? karena kita berpikir, “ah tinggal tanya lagi AI, gampang”.

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Welp, this is like all of sudden, using this app since a long time, before it was bought by Mozilla, still named as Read it Later, this a go app for bookmarking articles I’ve found on the interwebs

There’s few alternatives for this kind of service, like Matter, Raindrop, Miniflux and few other.

For those who wanted to move to other service, most of the bookmark service provide an import capability, first we need to import our bookmarks from Pocket via this link, and Pocket will send the exported file (.csv) to our email, and we can import that file to our new service.

It’s not a hassle to move, but still, I’ll miss Pocket, and thank you for serving me as one of your user.