Ending a year long posting streak

I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has been a lot. That was on December 20th, and it turned out there were at least three big new LLM stories still to come before the end of the...

I Live My Life a Quarter Century at a Time Delightful Steve Jobs era Apple story from James Thomson, who built the first working prototype of the macOS Dock. Via lobste.rs Tags: apple, history, steve-jobs

Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let's call the LLM "the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what's really happening is you're coauthoring a fictional conversation transcript with the Shoggoth wherein you are writing the lines...

O2 unveils Daisy, the AI granny wasting scammers’ time Bit of a surprising press release here from 14th November 2024: Virgin Media O2 (the UK companies merged in 2021) announced their entrance into the scambaiting game: Daisy combines various AI models which work together to listen and respond to fraudulent calls instantaneously and is so...

Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I've seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at least for their side projects) thanks to the productivity boost they get from leaning on LLMs. Zohaib also provides a very useful detailed...