Absolute THEATRE with these AI doofs.

There were numbers that it was illegal to export from the US. A perl one-liner was classified as a munition.

Live low stakes low-power translation of common sentences on my phone is pretty fucking cool.

They’re going to be fantastic for organizing the next internal genocide in the US, they’re perfect for mass surveillance and targeting.

They are magnificent accountability sinks for people who want to blow up a school full of children, deny medical care, etc.

Meanwhile I’m only seeing the quality of software plummet at MSFT and Amazon and Google and Meta. I would have expected them to have fewer things fall over and catch fire if this did was so good

I think a lot of people are just in love with the chatbot that tells them they’re smart and love the idea of having a little homunculus that loves them to boss around.

It freaks me out to see people who are allegedly working on complex engineering projects look to their tools for emotional support.

I look at chatbots like I look at speed, I know people who graduated from college by staying awake for days on meth. Can’t deny that they have a diploma now, but it makes you crazy.

I don’t have a project that needs to use an llm and, frankly, I don’t want to end up like Steve Yegge or Satya Nadella or Kent Overstreet. They’ve all clearly got a screw loose now, and it’s pretty clear that chatbots had a lot to do with it.

If I am going to use an llm, I’m going to use it as a component that I interact with programmatically to find approximate solutions to a nasty space.

Using one to generate code listings that your roof depends on seems fucking insane to me. Using one to write developer documentation seems fucking insane to me.

It’s a cargo cult imo. Yes, the radio was real. But having a radio does not mean you have an air force on the other side. Right now the hyperscalers are confidently calling out orders for chocolate and mayonnaise and bullets and antibiotics, confident the planes are coming.

Yes you can create a working program with an llm. I think in the end, though, a recently-fired engineer with a mortgage will be cheaper and more available than Claude.

Amodei and Altman are con artists.

It’s starting to feel like this is the historical comp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Law's_Company

I remember that bullshit, it was awful.

There’s not a single anarchist bone between Thiel, Karp, Nadella, Andreessen, etc.

They still can only conceive of hierarchies, and how to use them to dominate people.

Anarcho-syndicalists are the people building unions. Captains of industry are the people smashing unions.

That maintenance contract is insane.

Governments that are being well paid to establish the surveillance state fucking love it.

6 / half-dozen at this point

Neither of my kids had read 1984, which I thought was a scandalous oversight by their school, so I bought them each a copy.

My younger kid said “I guess I can see why it might have been more impressive for you reading it before technology, but this stuff is all pretty obvious”.

My kids are both post-iphone, and therefore natives of a totalitarian society in a way that I (pre-Internet) simply am not.

Because young people are the ones on whom the burden of actual work always falls, so they can see that it doesn’t fucking work

Policy as fight promotion, everybody.

He saw it today, yesterday would have been better, but he walked out.

We want more people to do this, he doesn’t need a cookie but he also doesn’t need a brick.

Engineers are extremely vulnerable to bullshit because they think they aren’t.

It’s really impressive how much of the UK media is making excuses for the rioters.

I think Reform and the Conservatives think this is good for them, I know it’s worked in the past but TBD.

It’s not a virtue signal any more, no need to announce it.

I live in a host city and there is zero excitement.

No locals are mentioning it as a sporting event, it’s a hassle that’s going to fuck with transit and make everything cost twice as much.

The targets that were hit are not being reported in the US at all as far as I can tell.

Just “strikes in Southern Iran”.

The real story: how much are they going to have to pay, to whom, to make this go away?

I see Reform has their campaign strategy locked in.

Making Starmer look like an impotent confused peacock is so easy.

That’s because that’s where the cheap land and bribeable officials are.