Liam Dawson

ai is inevitable so you're just risking being left behind, that is why we desperately need you to stop fighting back against it and start embracing it, otherwise the inevitable thing wont happen. also it needs to have a lot of tax exemptions and special permits because without those it will die.

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So, @edzitron.com ate his Wheatties this morning

online privacy is a thing of the past, our data is being collected and sold by everything, massive data centres are everywhere.. all for the advertising algorithm to hit so close and yet so far

"it’s now common for a handful of requests to incur costs that exceed the plan price!" They're just straight up saying it now, huh. github.blog/news-insight...

Current status: Tired but locked in.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

Fucking love it when people post things openly that you couldn't get from me via torture. x.com/summeryue0/s...

OH (re current corporate culture trends): "Just yoga harder!"

Execs find LLMs can mostly do their jobs. By extension, they conclude, it should be able to do anyone's job. The only people who ought to be thoroughly worried about LLMs are execs. Sadly, the system isn't setup to accept that particular reality.

I was present for the birth of the web, the explosion of personal sites, and the blogging revolution, and you know what we never had to do? Beg people to use our shit.

This is wild (via ajf) labs.watchtowr.com/stop-putting...

jokes aside, can you imagine how you would handle it if you asked a human assistant "did you make all this up instead of actually doing any of the work", and that person responded to you with "good catch"

"Glyph proposes that many LLM-assisted programmers who speak highly of the reliability and value of AI tools are falling prey to two cognitive biases: availability heuristic; and salience heuristic." /ht @benjaminbirnbaum

Funny to look back on the blog posts from AI CEO’s (This is from 6 months ago) www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ce...

Sam Altman has got to the point where he doesn't even bother to describe stuff anymore. "Uhh yeah sometime you'll have a thingy that will do stuff. And wow will it be good!"

Chef's kiss (so to speak)

From the "rational arguments" away to the emotional ones, Alex put this beautifully succinct:

you can always do the “5 whys” in your incident review but be careful about going past that because after like 8 whys it’s just “capitalism”

If your docs are shit (outdated, unclear, poorly organized), an LLM won't understand them any more than you do. If your docs are *good* (written by knowledgeable people, with care to get it just right, maintained), an LLM gives you a subpar recap. Invest in docs. Demand better docs. Read docs.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

The honest reason I don't have microtransactions/season pass/ads/100 DLCs/etc in Balatro isn't just about the ethics of those practices but because when I play other games that have those things it makes me want to put my computer in the dishwasher and set it to pots & pans

Time to end my 295 day Duolingo streak, I guess. techcrunch.com/2025/04/30/d...

lol

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Addendum: 1. Vercel sat on this information for 22 days, not 5. 2. They have since rewritten the change log announcement I linked: bsky.app/profile/edua...

Columbia Journalism Review tested eight generative AI search tools and found their answers were wrong 60% of the time, and the paid ones actually fared worse than the free ones. Meanwhile, millions of people trust the way they present total bullshit with confident language.

1x.engineer - so good!

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

A particular failure mode I have when trying to explain why something is a bad idea If you list all 20 reasons, people will pick the 3 most-possibly-solvable and least-concerning ones, leaving the other 17 unaddressed If you list the top 3, people will say "Well you can just bite those bullets"

Dr Hallowel advocating for the power of PLAY! Joy and playfulness are key to coaching ADHD

They need him to be a genius because they cannot handle what it means for them to be tricked by a fool.

Live versions of the "'What a week, huh?' meme. - 'What a day': tintin.dlazaro.ca/day - 'What a week': tintin.dlazaro.ca/week - 'What a month': tintin.dlazaro.ca/month - 'What a year': tintin.dlazaro.ca/year #memes

Absolute fucking clown show. www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/a...

I don't have a todo list. I have a singly linked list of tasks that I am procrastinating by focusing on another task.

"A program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of people who work on it. Lose the people, and you lose the program. Code is merely a written representation of a program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code" -Peter Naur