Notes
These short posts include "asides" from the my original blogs, a sample of "tweets" from Twitter, and more recently are often syndicated to my Fediverse profile.
I’m very tempted to approach the creators of inTouch and ask how much it would cost to influence “parents” to vote or subscribe to crypto schemes.
Today we observe that the Israeli state under Netanyahu has spent a full year “defending itself” by killing a child every 48 minutes.
As if we didn’t already have enough to worry about, now the mushrooms are building a robot army.
Unfortunately, it seems that today’s big LLMs are more like physicists than philosophers. Rather than more knowledge improving their awareness of their own ignorance, it only makes them more cocksure about knowing everything.
I meet so many aspiring designers who proudly assert that they’re really good at “ideas”. The world does not need more idea people, at least until it catches up on the inspiring backlog of Matt Webb’s ideas. We need to make home-defragging robots before dreaming up new things to buy.
Klarna is going DIY on software thanks to AI.
I bet if you’re on a dev team there, you are either:
- frustrated that your productive colleagues and “ignore the bullshit” team are having their good work credited solely to their use of copilots, or
- scared because you know it’s time to find another job and all you know how to do is consume user stories.