AI eats the world

Welcome to my life. Seriously, this is an amazing likeness to some of the stuff I go through every day at work.

This didn’t fully register when it came out last Thursday (had other stuff on my mind, I guess), but I still think they should have done this for the Raspberry Pi 500 first–because regular desktop users would reap the most benefits, and it would greatly increase the usable lifetime of the device. As to having 16GB on a Model B, it’s certainly...

I’ve come across a couple of posts about how people use LLMs for coding, so I thought I would share how I currently use AI in general–spanning office work, writing, and, of course, coding and a bit of fun. DisclaimerSince I know most people won’t read my site disclaimer, I encourage you to do so, and go through the rest of the post with the...

Notes for January 6-12Work was a bit slow this week (it felt more like a half-week as people started popping back in), so I was able to keep a clear head and ended up doing a fair bit of writing for a change–bits of it will be surfacing in the next few hours or weeks. Going PaperlessAfter a conversation with friends, I installed paperless-ngx on...

Rodney Brooks’ latest predictions scorecard is a refreshing dose of reality in a tech landscape often clouded by hype. His candid assessment of self-driving cars, AI, and space travel highlights the gap between expectation and reality, especially where it relates to the AI hype cycle and a need to both temper expectstions and have a more rational...