Links #15
I’ve been on a posting spree recently and I’m excited to get out some of these links I’ve been sitting on for a bit. Lots of fun ones here—enjoy!
Bryan Braun - Blog
Making things and sharing what I learn.
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This could be the golden age of the internet. Why not?
The predominant narrative these days is that generative AI is going to be bad for the internet. Whether you call it Dead Internet Theory or The Slopocalypse, the idea is the same: A tidal wave of low-quality AI-generated slop will flood the internet, turning it into a lifeless shell of it’s former self.1
You are not your grand plans
“You are not your grand plans. You are your daily patterns.”
Quality vs quantity in the age of AI
Over the last four months I’ve increased my use of AI for web dev work pretty dramatically. I use it every day at work, as do most of my coworkers. I don’t think it’s disputed anymore that AI-assisted development can save a lot of time and effort. The question is, what do we do with all that surplus?
Links #14
See below for links to recent things that have made me think. It’s quite the mix of mediums (animated videos, short posts, letters, and 6-hour podcasts), but it wasn’t until I gathered them that I noticed a recurring theme: sacrifice
250 lbs
Six months ago, while I was setting up a new code editor, I noticed that the default font size felt just a bit too small, when displayed on my monitor. Not a big deal, I just bumped it up one size and went back to my work.
Made in 2025
Here are some things I made in 2025:
Raise your standards for important things; lower them for unimportant things
I think we’ve all got some built in tendencies, pulling us towards certain behaviors, whether or not they are worthwhile.
SolidGoldMagikarp
In November 2019, years before the launch of ChatGPT, OpenAI created a 1.5 billion parameter Large Language Model and released it publicly under the name GPT-2.
Links #13
Sean Evans interviews Conan OBrien on Hot Ones I don’t know that much about Conan OBrien, but I definitely wasn’t expecting this. Conan is obviously putting on a show, and the unhingedness of the whole thing is very entertaining, but there are also these moments of truth that speak to what’s really happening (in a Montreal Screwjob kinda way ). Case-in-point: “You can’t stop me from being who I…