Select By ID - A Podcast by Ibrahim Diallo

How do you become really GOOD at anything as a Beginner?

Everyday, we have new passions and we want to become really good at it. I've found a simple way to get good at any subject before I get bored with it.

Programming is still free and will remain free forever.

You don't need to pay to learn and to work as a programmer. All the tools are free, don't let people convince you otherwise.https://idiallo.com/blog/programming-tools-are-free

AI DIDN'T DELETE THE DATABASE, YOU DID!

In a recent tweet, an entrepreneur claimed that an AI agent has deleted all his production databases. My question was how can anyone delete your database in the first place? In this episode, we explore the main question he should have asked, and how you can protect yourself in the future.

Content is short for Content Farms

Content used to be a bad word. Now it's a billion-dollar strategy, and we're all paying the price.My very first day on the job happened to fall on February 2011. The exact day Google dropped its Panda update and wiped out an entire industry overnight. I watched a manager and lead dev scream at each other while the company's ad revenue hit exactly zero. Welcome to the world of content farms.In this video, I trace how "content" went from a dirty word to a career aspiration, and why it isn't a good thing. From the SEO spam era of the early 2010s to today's YouTube tutorials that make you sit through a NordVPN ad before telling you how to turn your water heater back on, the game hasn't really changed. Only the players have.Don't reduce yourself to a content strategy. Create things you're proud of.Source: - https://idiallo.com/blog/content-is-bad- https://idiallo.com/blog/create-content-or-create-art

WHY IS EVERYONE SUPPOSED TO DIE IF MACHINES CAN THINK?

Whenever I hear Sam Altman and Dario Amodei talking about AI, I'm reminded of Dune Prophecy. In the show, thinking machines are bad because they have attempted to kill all humans. So people are careful when building any machine, making sure that human input is necessary.  But then, we have the heads of AI companies peddling the same danger. Why? They are the masters of this technology, and they are selling it. Why are they saying the tech is dangerous? The answer is simple. They are creating this doom narrative to legally prevent anyone else from competing with them. Join me as I break down this doomerism and make it more digestible for the rest of us.