Given how good a job AI does at faking intelligence, it really makes me wonder how many artificial intelligences I’ve admired in other people.

It’s hard to imagine anything better for the intellectual soul than touring a top-tier liberal arts college. Jeez, I just want to hang out in the library forever and learn about things that aren’t informed by peoples’ opinions about programming languages.

Haha what? If the President of the United States expects to appeal a CIVIL case to the Supreme and get action on it, he’s out of his mind. He’d have to essentially stack the court with loyalists who are more beholden to him that they are to the constitution. Oh.

It’s amusing to see the rising support among Democrats for Gavin Newsom. When Newsom was elected mayor of SF, it was a huge disappointment to many, including me, because he was too conservative. Matt Gonzalez 4 evah!

Good job, Republicans. Your guy is actively trying to starve the poor. Bravi.

I confess, I did it. I killed Claude.

I don’t know what “Gay Halloween” is but I love it because gay people rule. If you’re not gay, you should support gay people. If you are gay, you should support gay people, too.

I’ve gotten to the point of parenthood where your kid comes home at midnight on Halloween with two friends and wants to hang out in the basement until their parents come over to get them. Time is an illusion, parenthood doubly so. (Apologies to Douglas Adams)

A distinct sign of my maturity is that i don’t post everything I think or feel anymore. I know it might seem like I do, to some, but I don’t.

Rode my other bike to the lake today.

Rode my other bike to the lake today.

My friend Joe Fabisevich has been locked-in on AI since the outset. Everybody knows more than somebody about AI, and Joe probably knows more than you. mastodon.social/@mergesor…

There should be some legal consequence for a President who just up and destroys 1/3 of the White House without consulting anybody. Then again, there should be some legal consequence for a President who does all the things Trump has gotten away with.

Because I was born in the LA area, I was a die-hard LA Dodgers fan as a kid, even though I grew up in the SF Bay Area. Eventually I starting rooting for the Giants, and after moving to Boston 20 years ago, the Red Sox. But now I want the Blue Jays to win. Yes, against my childhood team. Go Toronto!

I’m actually a fan of SwiftUI, but I’m not a fan, as primarily a macOS developer, of the constraints it would place on me. I stay subscribed to SwiftUI help channels primarily to remind myself of the anguish I’m missing by holding out. AppKit + Swift + Mac = Gold.

After working with AI assistance for a number of coding tasks over several months, I think I understand where it lands in terms of human metaphors.

An AI assistant is an extremely knowledgeable, confident, adaptable, and tireless worker with NO GODDAMN COMMON SENSE.

Sometimes it really is worth going to the doctor. I stubbed my toe pretty bad, and after a week it was still hurting. Everybody knows they “can’t do anything” for broken toes. But my doctor noticed it was red and swollen and looked more like an infection. An x-ray proved there was no fracture.

PLEASE tell me some Manhattan deli has named one of their sandwiches “New York’s Hottest Club” …

First cold water swim of the season. 59F. It’s time!

Trump deserves praise for brokering this very-welcome Israel/Gaza peace deal. Let’s hope it lasts. But nothing will ever outshine his cruel fascism. He’s particularly vindictive against his own compatriots. That’s his legacy.

The “me in my antifa uniform” meme is delicious. For the slow people in the class: nearly every American soldier throughout history was antifa.

Maybe Donald Trump should be President of Israel. Starting immediately.

LLMs are particularly good for asking “did I miss anything?” Whether that’s a piece of writing meant to convey something, a piece of code meant to perform something, or anything else where a “second opinion” might be useful. It won’t do anything bad, but it might do something good. AI naysayers hunker down on “it’s not 100% reliable.” No, but neither is any human.

Dismissal of AI technology today is akin to somebody in 1982 complaining that a Commodore-64 couldn’t scan their photos. You need imagination to understand how different the future will be.

AI is a technological inflection point. It’s scary, but also exhilarating and fun to live through. Most of the world is as ignorant about AI as people were about personal computing in 1982. It’s just breaking in to the mainstream, yet totally mysterious. IMHO, it’s a good time to learn about AI.