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Nah it makes sense. They know their AI is second rate at best. Cortana implies 26th century excellence. If the reality is a step back (and we all know it’s several), then “haha Cortana dumb” memes would sweep the internet. They would have to rebrand anyway. If anything it was smart to rip off the band aid early.

Peoplesoft and its consequences have been a disaster for the modern workforce

Back when I worked at a university, writing ETL scripts for Peoplesoft felt like I was carrying buckets of data by hand.

When you’re in VRChat you can be your fursona

My mother is going on 5 years with multiple myeloma, a cancer that would have offed her in 5 months if it weren’t for advances in maintenance chemotherapy.

Medicine has done amazing things in my lifetime.

It can also backfire. AI slop ads and marketing material imply cut corners and poor quality products. If a bakery isn’t going to bother touching up its AI slop banner, I don’t expect their cookies to be great either.

AI research has always been a series of occasional great leaps between slogs of iterative improvements, from Turing and Rosenblatt to AlexNet and GPT-3. The LLM era will result in a few things becoming invisible architecture* we stop appreciating and then the next big leap starts the hype cycle anew.

*Think toll booths (“exact change only!”) replaced by automated license plate readers in just the span of a decade. Hardly noticeable now.

Phreaking in 2025

Out of curiosity, what would the minimum specs need to be in order to run this locally?

My PC is just good enough to run a DeepSeek distill. Is that on par with the requirements for your model?

I’m not sure it’s one or the other. Firing off a prompt to Claude Code and letting it rip can be great for productivity but I won’t pretend I’m reading every line it writes unless I have to.

And yet if I’m inquiring into a subject matter I have scant knowledge about, and want to learn more about, I voraciously read the output and plan my next prompt thoughtfully throughout.

The dividing line is intellectual curiosity. AI can stimulate the mind in ways people may not have thought possible, like explaining subjects they never grasped previously, but the user has to want to go down that path to achieve it.

Social media doomscrolling, by contrast, is designed to anesthetize, so the result should not surprise.

Cursor and Claude Code were the asskicking I needed to finally get on the typescript bandwagon.

Strong typing drastically reduces hallucinations and wtf bugs that slip through code review.

So it’ll probably be the strongly typed languages that receive the proportionally greatest boost in popularity from LLM-assisted coding.

Could put it in a ChatGPT project description or Cursor rules to avoid copy pasting every time.

I understand a significant portion of Tesla’s sales are in China and there is fierce competition from homegrown firms like BYD.

TFA mentions this but doesn’t get into much detail.

“When you loan money to a friend, be prepared to lose the money or the friend” is a maxim I’ve lived by and has guided me through some tough decisions over time.

I’ve also seen this happen in NYS. Tenants do the craziest shit (selling showers to crackheads and discovering a near thousand dollar water bill was one of the tamer tales), fight tooth and nail to stay, and leave the place uninhabitable when they finally are forced to go.

Unfortunately the local mom and pop landlords get wrecked by this while only the big corporate landlords have the resources and scale to weather these situations.

Boston was a mess before the big dig. Enough ink has been spilled over how long it took, but just about everybody agrees the city is better for it.