Some people call me Mr. AppleScript.
Palo Alto, CA
Joined September 2008
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What if “work smarter, not harder” means not working for people who keep trying to squeeze more out of you by saying that?
Finally saw Project: Hail Mary, and enjoyed it, but it didn’t quite land for me. It bugged me that Rocky has basically the personality of Doug from Up, when I expected them to be more... alien. It’s possible I was expecting the wrong movie.
Reading about “semantic ablation” — why AI writing is so dull — noting that Isaac Asimov described exactly the same thing in “The Monkey’s Finger”. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mo…
OH: “I won’t say he’s mentally unbalanced, but it would not surprise me to find him holed up in a darkened hotel room surrounded by bottles of his own urine.”
A problem with asking AI to do something you are unable to do yourself is that you are likely also unable to tell if the AI did a good job. It’s automated Dunning-Kruger.
I’ll believe we’ve created a genuinely intelligent AI when someone asks it to write a printer driver and it refuses.
To whom it may concern: the double slash is _not_ a required part of URL syntax, and may be omitted if your scheme does not use a path.
I know the word “hangry”: bad-tempered or irritable as a result of hunger. Is there a different word for the same feeling, but because of lack of caffeine?
Before optimizing compilers got good, devs would advertise “written in assembly for speed”. If LLM-generated code gets a sufficiently bad reputation, might devs advertise “100% hand-written, LLM-free”?
I want to start using some of these just to see how people react, but I don’t think I’d be able to keep a straight face.
Is it a coincidence that the common abbreviation for “top of tree”, ToT, resembles a crying kaomoji? I think not.
My team was chuckling about how the “originals” used to commit all code changes directly to main, like animals —
Then it hit me: we *all* used to do that *all the time*. Pre-git, all our project histories are an almost perfectly straight line.