Jacob Harris

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

Yes and also I’m not sure how publicly known it is how close it came to becoming black hawk down in Venezuela

Released on this day in 1983: Blue Monday #NewOrder
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conversely, if the codebase is kept in a good state (simple data flow, good constraints at boundaries), claude can make way better progress within it and introduces less incidental complexity with each change. the problem is, if you don't know what "good" looks like, you won't be able to maintain it

having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.

Every lengthy write-up on "lessons learned" after someone lets an AI process delete their database or all their emails reads like this to me

If claims start getting paid out, you're looking at a transfer of wealth with US taxpayer money going to private companies. There's also the possibility that you create an incentive for companies, particularly with older tankers, to feed ships and crews to the woodchipper.

i don't get it. you can lift at the gym. being a softhanded scribe is like the pinnacle of civilized life, tens of thousands of generations of your ancestors would have murdered to be a softhanded scribe

"Oh, it works great, as long as you are very, very specific in what you tell it do and be very precise in your wording and looking at its actions so it doesn't go astray and introduce bugs or just delete everything"

My dude, you're describing working with the fae folk

One weird thing about the DOD announcement naming Gavin Kliger the Chief Data Officer at the DOD CTO office is that his own LinkedIn listed him having that title back in December. Have they been sitting on this for 3 months?

What if autocomplete but cursed

“Only a tiny bit cursed, if you’re lucky”

I’ll look it over, thank you

Interesting. How does that work? What do you ask in a post mortem?

“So, I get to live forever, sign me up”

“Wait a second, I didn’t tell you about the curse!”

Herbert with a fucking killshot on this one

“Why don’t you just” is the activation phrase to tell my brain it can take a little break for the next 5 minutes because nothing fruitful will come after that starter

This.


The image is of graves being dug for the girls killed when the U.S. bombed their school.

Working on some new home decor

This.

Regardless of whatever whiz-bam cool "feature" is touted, these military ghouls don't actually care if it does a better job at finding targets.

The real utility of a tool like Claude in this situation is *accountability dodging*.

"The computer told me to do it."

Oh I know I’m wrong

"AI" CANNOT BE ANXIOUS

Anxiety is a symptom of consciousness and emotion. The Word Assembly Probability Machine has neither of those.

It mirrors the humans who are prompting it. If it's returning anxious-sounding sentences, it's because the people using it are having anxiety.

America is recommitting itself to fossil fuel vehicles, meanwhile Chinese cars will soon be able to recharge in the same time it takes to fill up at a gas station

Ah thank you!

Instead of boxers, we’re going to call them fistpunchers

People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

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Looking at an example of using LLM-generated code to generate TANF policy rules for each state. I appreciate their honesty about the process, but the amount of internal lines between everything has me a bit alarmed www.policyengine.org/us/encode-po...

Part of me would absolutely love to see Trump's "Business Man Mister Deals" persona go the same way as Hoover's "Great Engineer"