Embrace the vibe shift

Four interesting datas: LLMs claim another victim, making the stuff that makes stuff, an unexpected rise from the dead, and an expected ongoing decline. Plus, Offices should embrace the vibe shift

Random Walk actually has five interesting datas:

• Inflation, damn the cars;

• LLMs claim another victim, this time a helpful community;

• Making the stuff that makes the stuff (but where is the stuff?);

• Rumors of two deaths: one exaggerated, one definitely not.

Finally, reflections on the new patterns of life and living, with some clues for what we might do with all the empty offices. Embrace the vibe shift.

Scatterplots

Inflation, damn the cars

Just so sticky, it won’t go away:

On a MoM basis, you can blame the gains on . . . used cars and trucks?

Ah right . . . doesn’t matter that rates are through the roof and a car is more expensive to finance, we just don’t have a lot of them (which, once again, ought to be good news for the auto repair folks):

First, LLMs came for the engineers, and I did nothing

Has ChatGPT claimed another victim? Perhaps, insofar as Microsoft’s Github (and AI-powered Copilot) appears to be where engineers go for answers, maybe: