Observations at the time
There s so much fear going around about how AI will take over the world and subjugate humanity with its impending superhuman powers. Two essays that I read last week cut through the drivel with thoughtful analysis and reasoning, pushing back on the hyperbole peddled by those whose valuations depend on keeping everyone on edge. Pause Continue reading "Respite from the AI mania"
Someone on HN pointed out how clever it is, as an advertising strategy, for Claude Code to claim co-authorship over commits that it generates, given the exposure it would garner on GitHub and the like. It reminded me of the Sent from my iPhone sign-off that Apple s mobile Mail app would eagerly tack on to emails that you send. Continue reading "Sent from my Claude"
Lately, an odd habit seems to have caught on among my peers when they ve done something with an LLM. When asked how many support requests have we received about the new Feature X? , they answer according to [LLM tool], we ve received 17 requests since it was released. When posting a pitch document or a pull Continue reading "Don t credit the LLM"
Instead of writing tonight, I added ❤️ buttons to the end of my posts that mimic the neat little toast buttons that Bear blogs have. It s Solid Post Likes but with six inches of CSS overrides because I m dangerous like that. I also turned off comments because it s 2026 and email (from 1971) is cool Continue reading "Toast button approximation"
Robert blogged about the power of asking what do you think? It brought up memories from my formative years when grown-ups had also given me the gift of this question. I don t know how children elsewhere had it, but these were rare departures from the grown-ups know best norm that prevailed in my corner of Continue reading "Re: What do you think?"
The shower in my bathroom is enclosed in a clear glass cubicle. The nice thing about the clear glass panels is how light and spacious they look. The not-so-nice thing about them is how quickly and obviously the dried up droplet marks accumulate and stand out. And boy are they stubborn. They don t wipe off Continue reading "Droplet stains off the shower screen"
What we mean by silence is usually an environment that allows us to attend selectively to whatever quiet means to us – the birds chirping in the garden, rather than the lawnmower next door – or to our own thoughts. Came across this gem on an episode of The Intelligence (23:35). The long-read that the segment Continue reading "On silence"
We were discussing a new app claims to offer significant discounts for dining out (there s a whole bunch of them out there). Ever since prices started going up about a year ago in response to global post-pandemic inflation, I d been pondering on what it might look like when they eventually correct and come down. Unlike Continue reading "How prices come down"
They both happened to be characterised as rogue-like/lite , whatever that means. Set a timer before you start playing and promise yourself to stop when it goes off you ve been warned. Brotato on Metacritic Balatro review on IGN
If anyone deserves to be filing suit against OpenAI, it should be RashJo.