As much as we’d like to say “Make me a website that does X, Y, and Z” and then taking a nap, I’ve found breaking it down is best, even if each step is done by AI. I started with just ChatGPT for the preliminaries. I…
I used the Junie AI coding agent by JetBrains with Claude and ChatGPT engines to create a utility web page and service to track PRs by devs across multiple repos and tied to our ticketing system. I did it as an…
There is no “social” media anymore, there’s just algorithmic feeds of dubious news, memes, ads, AI generated content (and AI generated ads), promoted content, and short form videos by people you don’t know. You have to…
It would help you if I were doing the interview…
Only if the goal is to run the result and never have to update it or add features. Several of the good test projects I’ve made from scratch with AI (my title at work needs to be “Speaker to Silicon” because I’m usually…
My rule is that if other human beings eat something for pleasure (and not out of desperation, a dare, or to show off), then I should at least try it a few times as long as I don’t have ethical qualms about it.
I tried salted licorice. Granted, I don’t really like sweet licorice, or anise, or fennel, or any of the liquors that use that flavoring, but I tolerate them. The salted licorice was the worst thing I’d ever tasted. So…
With me, it has been story/novel ideas. The AI is a genuinely useful tool for brainstorming through ideas and giving historical and scientific background. I don’t let it write the stories, but I throw ideas at it and it…
Just an anecdote, but back in college, I had an algorithms professor who gave us a classifier problem like the square and triangle boundary problem. His English was poor and nobody understood the problem as he stated…
WDE! I remember calling the Foy desk one night (this would have been late 80’s) because someone at a party said “It says Crun-chy” in a Paul Lynde voice and we couldn’t remember the name of the rat from Charlotte’s Web…
Reminds me of the time I turned myself into a Van de Graff generator at work. I was a theater projectionist, back when you had 20 minute reels you had to constantly change, while babysitting two high-voltage,…
Yeah, completely automatic DMing just makes it like an open-ended computer game. On the other hand, the AI generated NPC responses are better than I could have come up with quickly, which makes me think co-DMing with an…
I think this last election has confirmed that.
I don’t think it would have an impact great enough to explain the discrepancies you saw, but some chess engines on very low difficulty settings make “dumb” moves sometimes. I’m not great at chess and I have trouble…
I found the audiobook to be a superior experience to reading the book as well. It think PHM is an excellent primer on that type of SF for someone who hasn’t read something like it before. My daughter, who never reads…
I read Solaris years ago and was unimpressed. The philosophy and science’ish elements were poorly described and it felt like a lit-fic attempt at trippy SF by someone ignorant of the genre. Then, a year or two ago, I…
It just completed filming, coming out in 2026.
I am a professional writer (in the sense that I have published short stories that were paid for, even though it is a hobby). Recently, my wife was participating in an event where she had to portray an historical figure…
Damn, that article was interesting, but too hard to read on my phone with the ads jerking it around.
I use a plugin called Grep Console in my JetBrains Rider IDE. It lets you auto highlight, color, or play a sound when certain regular expressions are found in the log output. So I set it to play an 8-bit sounding…
Yes, we see that, too, in the natural gas industry. The old engineering guys are retiring and being replaced by technicians who can implement a design, but not design something new. One of the reasons our firm provides…
A friend of mine is a wonderful musician who never “made it”, but continues to play bars and restaurants and small venues weekly, as he has for 30+ years. He’s done some session work as well. Another friend said he…
Learned the basics in college. Refined my skills writing Perl utilities.
There was an AI picture someone made of a typical person from Huntsville, Alabama. It showed an ~60 yo guy with glasses and a NASA shirt. Someone on the local subReddit said, “You’re looking at the world expert on the…
I’ve worked for two companies that had ESOPs while they were privately traded. In both cases, the companies were sold to larger corporate entities that promptly got rid of the ESOP. Not that it is all that bad. One sale…
As much as we’d like to say “Make me a website that does X, Y, and Z” and then taking a nap, I’ve found breaking it down is best, even if each step is done by AI. I started with just ChatGPT for the preliminaries. I…
I used the Junie AI coding agent by JetBrains with Claude and ChatGPT engines to create a utility web page and service to track PRs by devs across multiple repos and tied to our ticketing system. I did it as an…
There is no “social” media anymore, there’s just algorithmic feeds of dubious news, memes, ads, AI generated content (and AI generated ads), promoted content, and short form videos by people you don’t know. You have to…
It would help you if I were doing the interview…
Only if the goal is to run the result and never have to update it or add features. Several of the good test projects I’ve made from scratch with AI (my title at work needs to be “Speaker to Silicon” because I’m usually…
My rule is that if other human beings eat something for pleasure (and not out of desperation, a dare, or to show off), then I should at least try it a few times as long as I don’t have ethical qualms about it.
I tried salted licorice. Granted, I don’t really like sweet licorice, or anise, or fennel, or any of the liquors that use that flavoring, but I tolerate them. The salted licorice was the worst thing I’d ever tasted. So…
With me, it has been story/novel ideas. The AI is a genuinely useful tool for brainstorming through ideas and giving historical and scientific background. I don’t let it write the stories, but I throw ideas at it and it…
Just an anecdote, but back in college, I had an algorithms professor who gave us a classifier problem like the square and triangle boundary problem. His English was poor and nobody understood the problem as he stated…
WDE! I remember calling the Foy desk one night (this would have been late 80’s) because someone at a party said “It says Crun-chy” in a Paul Lynde voice and we couldn’t remember the name of the rat from Charlotte’s Web…
Reminds me of the time I turned myself into a Van de Graff generator at work. I was a theater projectionist, back when you had 20 minute reels you had to constantly change, while babysitting two high-voltage,…
Yeah, completely automatic DMing just makes it like an open-ended computer game. On the other hand, the AI generated NPC responses are better than I could have come up with quickly, which makes me think co-DMing with an…
I think this last election has confirmed that.
I don’t think it would have an impact great enough to explain the discrepancies you saw, but some chess engines on very low difficulty settings make “dumb” moves sometimes. I’m not great at chess and I have trouble…
I found the audiobook to be a superior experience to reading the book as well. It think PHM is an excellent primer on that type of SF for someone who hasn’t read something like it before. My daughter, who never reads…
I read Solaris years ago and was unimpressed. The philosophy and science’ish elements were poorly described and it felt like a lit-fic attempt at trippy SF by someone ignorant of the genre. Then, a year or two ago, I…
It just completed filming, coming out in 2026.
I am a professional writer (in the sense that I have published short stories that were paid for, even though it is a hobby). Recently, my wife was participating in an event where she had to portray an historical figure…
Damn, that article was interesting, but too hard to read on my phone with the ads jerking it around.
I use a plugin called Grep Console in my JetBrains Rider IDE. It lets you auto highlight, color, or play a sound when certain regular expressions are found in the log output. So I set it to play an 8-bit sounding…
Yes, we see that, too, in the natural gas industry. The old engineering guys are retiring and being replaced by technicians who can implement a design, but not design something new. One of the reasons our firm provides…
A friend of mine is a wonderful musician who never “made it”, but continues to play bars and restaurants and small venues weekly, as he has for 30+ years. He’s done some session work as well. Another friend said he…
Learned the basics in college. Refined my skills writing Perl utilities.
There was an AI picture someone made of a typical person from Huntsville, Alabama. It showed an ~60 yo guy with glasses and a NASA shirt. Someone on the local subReddit said, “You’re looking at the world expert on the…
I’ve worked for two companies that had ESOPs while they were privately traded. In both cases, the companies were sold to larger corporate entities that promptly got rid of the ESOP. Not that it is all that bad. One sale…