AI Slop Is a Choice
I’ve been using AI ever since ChatGPT 3, and as models have gotten better I’ve come to use them more. Now I’m at a point where I’m paying $200/mo for Claude and use it every day. It’s not perfect, but it’s really good.
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From Today, Software Engineering is Dead
When cameras were first introduced, French painter Paul Delaroche reportedly opined “From today, painting is dead.” That was nearly two hundred years ago, and painting is doing just fine. But the nature of painting changed. Photography took over the work of faithful reproduction, and painting became something else: more expressive, more conceptual, more human. I think something similar is…
Transcription, Censorship and Sanitized Expression
A friend of mine recently left me a voicemail that had profanity in it. This wasn’t an angry voicemail, but a playful one. However, Apple’s voicemail transcription decided to replace the profanity with asterisks. To understand the message, I had to play it back. If I couldn’t do that I would have been unable to access the true message’s meaning.
Just use HTML/CSS/JS
With more tools, libraries, and frameworks than ever, it’s understandable that people might reach for the latest trend when building a new project. After all, new projects are a great opportunity to learn new technology. But in my career, doing this has often backfired and ended up wasting my time.
There Is Always A Cost
In business and in product there is always a cost. Every decision carries one. Every inaction carries one. There is no free lunch. Ignoring this fact is the fastest way to waste time, energy, and opportunity.