Tim Sylvester

Tim Sylvester

@timsylvester.com

Make bots pay you. https://paynpoint.net Amateurish writer, chef, landscape, architecture, food photog. Struggling comedian. 5x entrepreneur, elec & comp engineer.

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Why is an auto repair shop sending me "we miss you" emails? Do you think I get my car fixed because I think you guys are cool and love hanging out with you? Why is marketing so effing weird and needy? Know your role or lose the business.

I used to tell my buddy Austin that his drag name was Austin Tayshus. We never really landed on what mine was. But I think it could be Tim Tayshuns.

How can all these tough, manly men that "hate gays" be so deeply in love with the world's tattiest old queen and not even realize it? Like gross not only is she a nasty old bitch she's an evil old nasty bitch.

Remember when "new" implicitly meant "and better"? "Check out my new phone | car | computer | appliance!" Now you have to include "... it's ok, but..." "the controls are touch instead of buttons..." "it's mostly plastic..." "it's subscription-gated..." "it's not real chocolate..."

I think Anthropic rushed Opus 4.8 because of how poorly 4.7 was received. 4.7's MO was "let me do a crappy job quickly, over and over". I've only been using 4.8 for like an hour and it's already clearly better than 4.7, which was a huge step down from 4.5/4.6.

That my corn tortillas assure me they're "made with real corn" raises more questions than it answers. I never once doubted it until they brought it up. Now I wonder why they feel the need to say it.

The latest in AI headlines: "How 'quietly became' quietly became 'quietly became'." For details, read practically any news site, all of which quietly became AI slop regurgitation factories.

On this Memorial day, remember: All wars are bank wars America is owned by the rich who exploit the poor Naive young men die to enrich bitter old men America is not a nation of laws America is not a nation of equality or equal protection The only divide that matters is rich vs poor

What I love about developing with AI is you can get a wrong answer immediately. With StackOverflow you'd have to wait hours, days even, to get a wrong answer.

I eat a lot of disappointing blueberries and cantaloupes but every so often I find a pack of blueberries or a cantaloupe that reminds me why I do it.

"Oh my God!" she gasped, "Its so fucking big!" "I know," I sighed, "Honestly it's more trouble than it's worth... I really need to refactor this test file."

Miley, nobody on earth believes "Flowers" was not derived from "When I Was Your Man". Girl it's fine. Just admit it. It's a call and response. Bruno did great. You did great. They're both great. Who are we pretending for?

I've read ASOIAF cover to cover three times but I'm feeling like it's time for the fourth. And the opening scene of the second episode of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms made me laugh so hard I coughed my guts out.

I made an AI write a parody of itself and then I fell down and I farted haha look at me please no look at me please please look at me why won't you look at me i did this for you isn't it good enough isn't it ever good enough wait where are you going