@mitchellh: Beware people obsessed with outcomes instead of building outcome machines. Its worse than ever with AI, but these peopl…
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Mitchell Hashimoto warns against prioritizing short-term outcomes over building robust systems that generate outcomes, a concern amplified in the AI era.
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