dgritsko

Was thinking of that exact article while I was reading this, we must be following the same folks. Highly recommend folks reading it, even if it feels insane in some regards it's a fascinating look at what the limits of this stuff could be and I found myself with a lot of new ideas to consider after reading it. Interesting times.

Edit - after writing "we must be following the same folks" I realized that you are, in fact, Simon Willison - I saw this article because you posted about it on X, haha.

Your comment implies that this is all that they're working on, which does not seem substantiated.

At least for now, Jev is not multimodal. So a screenshot alone wouldn't cut it.

I think I've got the same three boxes. HDMI cables and adapters fall into the Venn diagram overlap of the last two IMO. You could also make a strong argument for USB also falling into "PC Accessories". But there's nothing quite as satisfying as having the _exactly right_ cable or adapter on hand to solve a problem. Makes it all worth it!

Yeah, this is my experience as well. It's mostly fine, and I've been using it nearly every day for years.

TL,DR: No, unless you're doing it so hard that you're straining your joints. But don't crack your neck.

This isn't quantized, right? Just a smaller context?

Must ensure that this quote is present whenever Cromwell's Rule is mentioned - "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible that you may be mistaken."

You dropped your "/s".

I use Conductor pretty much exclusively and it makes it incredibly easy to try different models, even within the same workspace - definitely recommend giving it a shot. Whenever I'm forced to use the Claude Code app directly it just seems woefully inadequate compared to Conductor

This sounds fascinating, are you documenting this in any public way for those of us that are inevitably curious on the details?

What a brilliantly written piece. Maintaining one's integrity is unfortunately rare enough that it makes Watterson's story so remarkable. I completely respect and admire his dedication to doing something for its own sake, for holding himself to the highest standards imaginable, and from walking away from it all for his own reasons - even if selfishly I'd rather him keep writing so that there would be more to enjoy. Time to go pull some old volumes of Calvin & Hobbes off the shelf for the hundredth time, I suppose.

Exactly. LLMs at their core are just fancy autocomplete. Extremely fancy, to be sure, and the output that they predict can be very useful - but people who anthropomorphize them or ascribe higher significance to the generated output seem to be missing this.