AvAn12

Interesting! On a similar journey. For me, the novelty of tech has been wearing off for the last few years. Slowly deleting apps. After this election I am going on media detox. We have also started reading again for fun - it took a while to regain my patience for reading but it has been so much more satisfying than endless web stuff. Have not missed anything so far. Now I have to loose my HN addiction… ;-)

This is the paradox. For software engineers, the current crop of “AI” tools is magic. A huge accelerator. And then they assume the rest of the world will get the same boost. However this is not the case at all. Claude code is great because it is trained on extremely well documented git histories and stack overflow. And outcomes are binary: the code works or it doesn’t; the PR is accepted or it isn’t. Not much else in the business world is like this at all. No training data with this kind of sequential development information. And no real black and white outcomes as such.

I would love it if we can just take the win on having created an amazing tool set for coders. Can’t this be enough?

Fair assessment. Maybe the messaging should focus on “these are great accelerators for software developers” rather than “AI will change everything for everyone everywhere…” It is understandable that non-technical folks are kind of underwhelmed - not due to lack of understanding so much as lack of a tangible need. Not everyone needs an electron microscope or gas chromatograph…

Commercially, this may be what they want to happen. Instead of just getting an answer, they got you to make three more prompts / queries. What do you know? "Engagement" just went up 3X!

Would be lovely, but many issues. 1. If LLMs can't reliably produce factual information today, how can they check if any statement is factual? 2. What about writing that is not recounting facts? e.g. fiction or marketing? 3. who decides what is factual? Does the system give a pass to statements like "full self-driving" or "AGI" or anything accompanied by "the likes of which have never been seen before"?

Yuck.

Software company pens speculative narratives about impact of not-yet-realized features. This reminds me of the corny old copies of The Futurist magazine that my dad kept around. Fun, hopelessly naive, and not at all aligned with how reality unfolded. Nice that Anthropic can afford a team of economists somehow though.

We are on our second Sceptre dumb tv. Cheap, good picture, happy. We handle streaming via Apple TV, though pivoting very slowly to jellyfin.

Yep! Our family is on our second one. First was 42” and lasted five years. Current one is 55” and is going on seven years. Both were around $200-250. Picture quality is great for us. Apple TV takes care of streaming. And easy connection to our stereo gives great audio. Cheers!

Closed amazon account when Bz decided to get into politics. I realize I can buy everything I need “in the real world” and thru manufacture websites directly. I do not miss it.

Bravo!

Open weight != open source

Could just, you know, pay more…

1. If someone is running to a cop because someone didn’t pick up after their dog, that is a sad state of affairs.

2. If we are so interested in enforcing laws, what about all of the white collar crime, crypto scams, insider trading, and grifting off of the public sector? Clearly doing more harm to society than some dog poop. Where are the $8bn market cap companies that go around enforcing securities laws?

Hotel wants to avoid undesirable guests. Seems reasonable.