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THE DAILY INDEX

Technology, AI, software, security, crypto and business

PROGRAMMING, DESIGN & DATA SCIENCE

TLDR

DEVELOPMENT GETS BETTER WITH AGE

Older developers aren't worried about the barrage of new model announcements and feature releases - they've seen it before. AI might be new tech, but it follows the same patterns. While many people are experiencing a fear of missing out on AI, the older developer knows this is the time to press the pause button. It is important to have in-depth conversations with stakeholders to understand the problems to solve. Sometimes, the solution will be generative AI.

INDIVIDUALS MATTER

Organizations like to move people around projects every few months to help teams understand what other teams are doing, but this rarely works. Roadmaps maintain the fiction that people are interchangeable, but everyone knows this isn't true. An effective team is difficult to create due to the institutional knowledge that exists on a team, as well as the team's culture - but destroying a team is very easy. Many people in senior management roles seem to think they can redirect people as easily as in a video game, assigning workers to switch from one task to another, but often, these moves won't work out.

ALL ATOM VIRTUAL CELL

An AI virtual cell that can re-create and simulate the behavior of molecules, cells, and tissues across diverse states would require an enormous amount of data to train, and it still might not be very predictive. Many groups have been trying to make predictive models of cell morphology and gene expression under chemical perturbation for years, but while the models are good, they haven't fundamentally changed how biology is done. A simulation of an entire human cell, atom by atom, running for 24 hours with molecular dynamics would take an estimated 2 x 10^38 FLOPs and 200 TW of electricity. It may be possible for humans to create one in 2074.

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