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AI-Assisted Coding Start-Up Kite Is Saying Farewell and Open-Sourcing Its CodePosted by BeauHD on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:40PM from the ahead-of-their-time dept.Kite, a start-up that has been developing artificial intelligence technology to help developers write code for nearly a decade, is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code. Silicon Republic reports:CitarBased in San Francisco, Kite was founded in 2014 as an early pioneer in the emerging field of AI that assists software developers in writing code -- an 'autocomplete' for programming of sorts. But now, after eight years of pursuing its vision to be a leader in AI-assisted programming, founder Adam Smith announced on the company website that the business is now wrapping up. According to him, even state-of-the-art machine learning models today don't understand the structure of code -- and too few developers are willing to pay for available services. "We failed to deliver our vision of AI-assisted programming because we were 10-plus years too early to market, ie, the tech is not ready yet," Smith explained. "You can see this in GitHub Copilot, which is built by GitHub in collaboration with OpenAI. As of late 2022, Copilot shows a lot of promise but still has a long way to go."Copilot was first revealed in June 2021 as an AI assistant for programmers that essentially does for coding what predictive text does for writing emails. Developed in collaboration with OpenAI, GitHub had kept Copilot in technical preview until this summer, during which time it had been used by more than 1.2m developers. The AI was made available to all developers in June, at a cost of $10 a month or $100 a year. However, Smith said that the inadequacy of machine learning models in understanding the structure of code, such as non-local context, has been an insurmountable challenge for the Kite team. "We made some progress towards better models for code, but the problem is very engineering intensive. It may cost over $100m to build a production-quality tool capable of synthesizing code reliably, and nobody has tried that quite yet."While the business could have still been successful without necessarily increasing developer productivity by 10 times using AI, Smith said he thinks that Kite's delay and unsuccessful attempt at monetizing the service prevented the start-up from taking flight. "We sequenced building our business in the following order: First we built our team, then the product, then distribution and then monetization," he explained, adding that Kite did not reach product-market fit until 2019, five years after starting the company. Despite the time taken to get to the market, Smith said Kite was able to capture 500,000 monthly active developers using its AI with "almost zero marketing spend." But the product failed to generate revenue because the developers refused to pay for it.Smith says most of their code has been open sourced on GitHub, including their "data-driven Python type inference engine, Python public-package analyzer, desktop software, editor integrations, GitHub crawler and analyzer, and more more."
Based in San Francisco, Kite was founded in 2014 as an early pioneer in the emerging field of AI that assists software developers in writing code -- an 'autocomplete' for programming of sorts. But now, after eight years of pursuing its vision to be a leader in AI-assisted programming, founder Adam Smith announced on the company website that the business is now wrapping up. According to him, even state-of-the-art machine learning models today don't understand the structure of code -- and too few developers are willing to pay for available services. "We failed to deliver our vision of AI-assisted programming because we were 10-plus years too early to market, ie, the tech is not ready yet," Smith explained. "You can see this in GitHub Copilot, which is built by GitHub in collaboration with OpenAI. As of late 2022, Copilot shows a lot of promise but still has a long way to go."Copilot was first revealed in June 2021 as an AI assistant for programmers that essentially does for coding what predictive text does for writing emails. Developed in collaboration with OpenAI, GitHub had kept Copilot in technical preview until this summer, during which time it had been used by more than 1.2m developers. The AI was made available to all developers in June, at a cost of $10 a month or $100 a year. However, Smith said that the inadequacy of machine learning models in understanding the structure of code, such as non-local context, has been an insurmountable challenge for the Kite team. "We made some progress towards better models for code, but the problem is very engineering intensive. It may cost over $100m to build a production-quality tool capable of synthesizing code reliably, and nobody has tried that quite yet."While the business could have still been successful without necessarily increasing developer productivity by 10 times using AI, Smith said he thinks that Kite's delay and unsuccessful attempt at monetizing the service prevented the start-up from taking flight. "We sequenced building our business in the following order: First we built our team, then the product, then distribution and then monetization," he explained, adding that Kite did not reach product-market fit until 2019, five years after starting the company. Despite the time taken to get to the market, Smith said Kite was able to capture 500,000 monthly active developers using its AI with "almost zero marketing spend." But the product failed to generate revenue because the developers refused to pay for it.
La retórica de las 'apps' de citas lleva una década usándose en los recursos humanosComparar la búsqueda de empleo con ligar no encaja en la realidad de la Gran RenunciaSe trata de una retórica que vincula cambio de trabajo y promiscuidadEs un lugar común comparar las relaciones laborales con las sentimentales, hablar del reclutamiento como una forma de enamoramiento y de seducción a los trabajadores para retener el talento. Pero este juego de metáforas parece haber llegado a un límite del absurdo en un momento en el que el mercado laboral ya está demasiado caliente sin recurrir a los dobles sentidos.No fue la primera, pero desde su lanzamiento hace una década Tinder se ha convertido en la aplicación de citas más utilizada, imitada y, por supuesto, criticada del mundo. Se le acusa recurrentemente por frivolizar el amor, cuando no por propiciar engaños, decepciones y fraudes entre sus usuarios.Aun así, su impacto es incuestionable incluso entre los que dicen no utilizarla, como demuestra la inclusión en nuestro día a día de expresiones ahora tan habituales como "hacer match".Pero si hay un ámbito en el que esta influencia 'retórica' ha sido especialmente destacada es de la gestión y captación del talento. Cada poco tiempo aparece una nueva aplicación o startup que promete ser el "Tinder para encontrar trabajo (o candidatos)". Y muchos reclutadores independientes utilizan esta terminología para referirse a su trabajo.La razón principal es que es mucho más llamativo explicar así su trabajo. Con suerte, incluso atraen la atención de algún medio de comunicación. El sexo, hablando en claro, vende.Y aludirlo, aunque sea de manera muy velada parece que funciona. De hecho, son muchos los expertos, autores y periodistas especializados en el sector que, en su búsqueda de descubrir nuevas tendencias laborales, recurren a terminologías originadas en la esfera del ligue, como el "ghosting" o el "career cushioning".La jerga del ligueSon términos que suenan llamativos, pero reflejan prácticas de toda la vida. Algunas, como no contestar a un candidato o apearse en mitad de un proceso de selección (que es lo que viene a ser el ghosting) pueden ser hasta cierto punto reprochables.Otras, como buscar otro trabajo ('cushioning') son bastante habituales: de hecho, según algunos estudios entre un 35% y un 37% de los trabajadores españoles están en ello, aunque el nombre y la asociación con la deslealtad y la infidelidad lo convierten en algo mucho más reprochable. Depende, claro está, si este análisis se hace desde el punto de vista del empleado o del empleador.El problema de esta visión es que se puede hacer una crítica similar a la que se hace a las aplicaciones de citas: que distorsiona la verdadera naturaleza de las relaciones profesionales, que es bastante más compleja que deslizar la pantalla del móvil.Algunas críticas van incluso más lejos. En una fecha tan lejana como 2015, Jessica Miller-Merrell, responsable del podcast Workology, y reconocida por publicaciones como Forbes como una de las mayores personalidades digitales en el mundo del empleo, publicaba un incendiario post en el que criticaba duramente esta tendencia.Su argumento era que, con la búsqueda de un gancho llamativo, se sexualizaba un ámbito de una manera que quizá no resultaba tan deseable para empresas y candidatos como para los departamentos de marketing de esas empresas. Aparte del hecho de que el 85% de los responsables de la industria de los recursos humanos son mujeres.Algo que no dudaba en vincular con la cultura del "brogammning", estereotipada en el sector TIC y las startups. Dos cambios en los que la presencia de la mujer sigue siendo muy reducida. De hecho, solo un 6% de las empresas emergentes españolas está fundad por mujeres, según un estudio de South Summit e IE University. Aunque se trata de una cuestión que va más allá del género.All you need is love?Los argumentos de Miller-Merrell han sido repetidos por muchos autores a lo largo de los años,pero siguen cayendo en saco roto. La 'tinderización' de la búsqueda de empleo resurge periódicamente con fuerza a pesar de la profunda transformación del mercado laboral con respecto al panorama anterior a la pandemia.La retórica de que las empresas y los líderes tiene que enamorar a sus candidatos (y viceversa) se mantiene inmutable pese a un inédito contexto de dificultades para contratar y en el que la rotación de los trabajadores se sitúa en el 17% según las estimaciones de Randstadt. En algunos sectores los expertos duplican su alcance, como el tecnológico, donde alcanzaría el 35%.En un momento de sobrecalentamiento del merado laboral, fenómenos como la Renuncia Silenciosa ilustran un cambio de paradigma entre los trabajadores más jóvenes que muestran a las empresas la necesidad de captar empleo estable.La idea del matching instantáneo, del ligue, puede resultar ocurrente (aunque desgastada por el uso) pero no refleja las verdaderas complejidades del nuevo paradigma laboral. Por no hablar de lo que ocurre en países como España, donde la falta de mano de obra en muchos sectores coincide con una tasa de paro de más del 12%.El problema de fondo es que esta retórica asimila la Gran Renuncia a una promiscuidad 'juguetona' de los candidatos que se contrarresta ofreciéndoles lo que, supuestamente, busca. Satisfacción rápida e inmediata.Pero en realidad el problema es el opuesto: lo se valora por parte de empresas y candidatos no es un vínculo temporal, un 'rollo pasajero', sino estabilidad basada en un acuerdo sólido de ambas partes.Tan sólido como puede (o debe) serlo un contrato laboral que surge del acuerdo entre empresas que afrontan un entorno de incertidumbre económica mientras la falta de mano de obra calificada da poder a muchos candidatos para pedir mejores salarios, promoción profesional, conciliación y un entorno de trabajo, no un "crush".
No hay cosa más execrable que tener que leer y escuchar a todas horas, en todas partes y a todo el mundo el uso de 'Talento' como eufemismo de obrero.Eso sí que es deshonroso por embustero y zalamero.
Predicción arriesgada: en 3 años tuiter lo sigue petando y funcionará mejor.
Con este futuro no veo apocalipsis zombies.https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1596892430250360832.html
Cita de: senslev en Noviembre 27, 2022, 19:31:56 pmCon este futuro no veo apocalipsis zombies.https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1596892430250360832.htmlhttps://twitter.com/mishadavinci/status/1596892430250360832Saludos.
CitarAI-Assisted Coding Start-Up Kite Is Saying Farewell and Open-Sourcing Its CodePosted by BeauHD on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @05:40PM from the ahead-of-their-time dept.Kite, a start-up that has been developing artificial intelligence technology to help developers write code for nearly a decade, is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code. Silicon Republic reports:CitarBased in San Francisco, Kite was founded in 2014 as an early pioneer in the emerging field of AI that assists software developers in writing code -- an 'autocomplete' for programming of sorts. But now, after eight years of pursuing its vision to be a leader in AI-assisted programming, founder Adam Smith announced on the company website that the business is now wrapping up. According to him, even state-of-the-art machine learning models today don't understand the structure of code -- and too few developers are willing to pay for available services. "We failed to deliver our vision of AI-assisted programming because we were 10-plus years too early to market, ie, the tech is not ready yet," Smith explained. "You can see this in GitHub Copilot, which is built by GitHub in collaboration with OpenAI. As of late 2022, Copilot shows a lot of promise but still has a long way to go."Copilot was first revealed in June 2021 as an AI assistant for programmers that essentially does for coding what predictive text does for writing emails. Developed in collaboration with OpenAI, GitHub had kept Copilot in technical preview until this summer, during which time it had been used by more than 1.2m developers. The AI was made available to all developers in June, at a cost of $10 a month or $100 a year. However, Smith said that the inadequacy of machine learning models in understanding the structure of code, such as non-local context, has been an insurmountable challenge for the Kite team. "We made some progress towards better models for code, but the problem is very engineering intensive. It may cost over $100m to build a production-quality tool capable of synthesizing code reliably, and nobody has tried that quite yet."While the business could have still been successful without necessarily increasing developer productivity by 10 times using AI, Smith said he thinks that Kite's delay and unsuccessful attempt at monetizing the service prevented the start-up from taking flight. "We sequenced building our business in the following order: First we built our team, then the product, then distribution and then monetization," he explained, adding that Kite did not reach product-market fit until 2019, five years after starting the company. Despite the time taken to get to the market, Smith said Kite was able to capture 500,000 monthly active developers using its AI with "almost zero marketing spend." But the product failed to generate revenue because the developers refused to pay for it.Smith says most of their code has been open sourced on GitHub, including their "data-driven Python type inference engine, Python public-package analyzer, desktop software, editor integrations, GitHub crawler and analyzer, and more more."Saludos.
No es porque ya lo dijera yo, pero ya lo decía yo .
¿qué narices sabe un modelo estadístico sobre a dónde quiero llegar, los detalles sutiles de implementación de este caso concreto, etc?.
A Hundred UK Companies Sign Up For Four-day Week With No Loss of PayPosted by msmash on Monday November 28, 2022 @09:43AM from the how-about-that dept.AmiMoJo writes:CitarA hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, a milestone in the campaign to fundamentally change Britain's approach to work. The 100 companies employ 2,600 staff -- a tiny fraction of the UK's working population -- but the 4 Day Week Campaign group is hoping they will be the vanguard of a major shift.Proponents of the four-day week say that the five-day pattern is a hangover from an earlier economic age. They argue that a four-day week would drive companies to improve their productivity, meaning they can create the same output using fewer hours. For some early adopters the policy has also proven a useful way of attracting and retaining employees. The two biggest companies that have signed up are Atom Bank and global marketing company Awin, who each have about 450 staff in the UK. They have been accredited by the four-day week campaign, meaning they have demonstrated that they have genuinely reduced hours for workers rather than forcing them into longer days.
A hundred UK companies have signed up for a permanent four-day working week for all their employees with no loss of pay, a milestone in the campaign to fundamentally change Britain's approach to work. The 100 companies employ 2,600 staff -- a tiny fraction of the UK's working population -- but the 4 Day Week Campaign group is hoping they will be the vanguard of a major shift.Proponents of the four-day week say that the five-day pattern is a hangover from an earlier economic age. They argue that a four-day week would drive companies to improve their productivity, meaning they can create the same output using fewer hours. For some early adopters the policy has also proven a useful way of attracting and retaining employees. The two biggest companies that have signed up are Atom Bank and global marketing company Awin, who each have about 450 staff in the UK. They have been accredited by the four-day week campaign, meaning they have demonstrated that they have genuinely reduced hours for workers rather than forcing them into longer days.