In the long run, I wonder if vibe coding will lead to more reliable software, as engineers rely more on their test suite and less on their mental “inner compiler” models? That’s been my experience. TDD, but actually for real this time…
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today. ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
Screenshot of headline reading: Trump Links His Push for Greenland to Not Winning Nobel Peace Prize In a text, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the U.S. needed the island for global security.
Invoke the 25th Amendment.
It may not be the worst aspect of the US invasion of Venezuela, but the fact that Trump cites Venezuela's failure to pump enough oil out of the ground as one of his reasons for invading is nevertheless deeply depressing.
In our name, with our money, ostensibly for oil, but mostly because we have a president who's addicted to power and attention and needs to deflect from being friends with the world’s most famous pedophile. Shame on these fucking monsters who run my country. They need out.
Ah, the millennial experience of “every time you get some measure of financial and career stability, the world decides to do something extraordinarily stupid again”
These things would be nightmares for privacy and security. So just a fun daydream… anyway, do folks know of any orgs/labs working on this kind of thing? What forms would you want your daemon to take?
Enter the tiger… “Dad! I’m gonna ride my tiger to Danny’s house!”
Like, they just went out in their neighborhood with their friends. But todays trucks are huge, and people drive while texting, so it really feels like the risk profile of letting your kids walk to their friends house has changed…
Continuing the Amber spyglass thread, I was thinking what kind of form my kid would choose for his “daemon”. It would definitely be a Tiger. Then I thought of how useful that could be for him. Folks in my parents generation bemoan the loss of freedom that kids have in the world today…
If it were squirrel-sized, it could even ride on your shoulder while you walked. I could even see having multiple of these, of different forms, for different situations.
Those bulky batteries and GPUs make wearables awkward and uncomfortable. So, what if your companion wasn’t wearable. What if it was a robot that just followed you around? You could give it the form of some imaginary creature. Something like daemons from the Amber Spyglass…
It seems like, to be really useful, interactive AI companions will need some serious compute and power “on prem”, like in a phone or mobile battery —at least for the near term— so you can have powerful-enough models with low-enough latency. But…
If speech is really a “good enough” bit-rate communication channel for most practical scenarios, then our AI assistants don’t necessarily need to be screens. The Humane pin kind of leveraged that idea. But…
This was a neat paper my friend sent me this week: arxiv.org/html/2408.10...
It inspired an extended daydream… 🧵
