Indradhanush Gupta

In other travel related news, I’m pleased to inform you all that I am now bold enough to ask the passenger next to me to tuck in their elbow. Because I realised that this is not an awareness problem. It’s that they don’t care that their elbow is hanging out and is making you uncomfortable.

I’m in the absolute minority here, but emacs org-mode is way superior to anything markdown when it comes to plan files with LLMs. Individual TODO states for each headline. Tags when and where I want. And of course filtering based on state and tags.

If I could crowdfund LLM tokens, this is what I would want to tackle. Build org-mode as a universal API. And campaign to replace markdown with org-mode.

I’m in the absolute minority here, but emacs org-mode is way superior to anything markdown when it comes to plan files with LLMs. Individual TODO states for each headline. Tags when and where I want. And of course filtering based on state and tags.

This chair has integrated WiFi. You sit on it and your bum automatically connects to the internet.

As you sit on the chair, momentarily relieved after having stood for the majority of the day. You feel a pinch. But think nothing of it. Ignoring it for the stiff back that is a more pressing concern.

This chair has integrated WiFi. You sit on it and your bum automatically connects to the internet.

I was considering adding a permanent disclaimer to every blog post on my site about it not being AI written. Then I relented. Because I don’t have to explain to strangers on the internet that I wrote it myself. I like writing, and even if it is imperfect at times I’m okay with that.

I'm trying to counter this by trying to read more fiction, but for every page that I read, I'm probably reading 50 pages or so of LLM output. So I think this is a battle I'm going to lose out on in the long term. And I can probably only delay the inevitable.

I was considering adding a permanent disclaimer to every blog post on my site about it not being AI written. Then I relented. Because I don’t have to explain to strangers on the internet that I wrote it myself. I like writing, and even if it is imperfect at times I’m okay with that.

At the airport, queued up to get on the elevator with bags. Almost no one wants to queue up at all which is surprising. Guy comes in last minute and tries to get past just when I think I can get onto this elevator with my trolley full of bags. I’m proud of myself for what transpired next:

Flying SFO-LHR today on Virgin Atlantic and props to them for playing some really groovy tunes while we board. All new ones I haven’t heard before. Thanks to Shazam I now have them in my playlist.

Increasingly feels like that some things just take a lot longer with AI now. I find myself fighting the machine and trying to get it do do what I want. And it takes so many round trips that it tires me out. And my work at $DAYJOB is critical infrastructure layer so just “trust it” doesn’t cut it.

Is this a side effect of perhaps me inherently expecting faster turnaround time now that I’m so used to the speed? The more complicated the work, the worse the output gets. So I can’t really go hands free yet.

Early on I believed we should be adding LLMs as co-authors to commits we make. My stance on this has now flipped. I think LLMs as co-authors makes us shirk responsibility for our changes. You wouldn’t have added Google or Stackoverflow as co-author previously. So you shouldn’t do it now.