Out of band;
I have a book review.
Probably the most frustrating book I’ve read as I need to remove distractions to understand the metaphors.
As a result I’ve fixed all parenting by abandoning my kids. /s
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/746817...
I have a shelf of old books that literally pulled me across the Atlantic in the 90s.
If anyone’s looking for old Angoss stuff, I got ya fam. 🤣
First commandment: “I didn’t say that”🤣
Conclusion: I’m learning if there’s a way to make Claude work.
But I feel I shouldn’t have to.
From a working standpoint, I don’t like Claude. I drag a folder on to it, and it complains about not starting a VM (why?), so quickly OpenAI has taken the lead back.
I am shocked at how little your subscription gets you per week. As a result it pushes me back to OpenAI purely because I’m out of time on Claude.
There is a Venn diagram intersection.
These are different model with different decisions and different strengths.
Quick thread this week.
I’m usually team OpenAI/Codex.
I bought a one year subscription to Claude. This was cos I was running out of OpenAI time and needed a failover.
That failover was Claude.
I’m looking for it, but there is a neurological paper on this crap, where your brain goes full caveman mode that this is not right. I just k ow it as “write ‘the’ like 100 times”
My job:
Work: we have lists.
Me: of what?
Work: lists
Me: so lists of lists?
Work: yes
That’s basically my last twenty years. Worse, you dream of lists.
One day (for me was like 6 yrs) your brain hits the “the the the” problem and snaps out.
The reason I’m still doing this is it’s a dragnet. By paying to sacrifice their privacy, they sacrifice everyone else caught up in the digital dragnet.
It pains me to post something that possibly protects the richest people in the city, but from a revenue standpoint they need to understand that they are going to be paying to relinquish their rights to privacy.
I have additional thoughts on this.
I’m Gen X and have greying hair.
Most of the people in Rosedale are significantly older than me. They see “Ooh, security cameras” and apply 1980s mentality to this.
They’re “technologically incompetent” to make that decision.
In plain English, here’s my belief:
If Rosedale won the right to put Flock cameras in, this also gives the world the ability to watch Rosedale residents.
It’s the “Barbra Streisand effect” but deployed as surveillance.
I’m a big time follower of Ben Jordan. I understand the risk, even if I don’t understand the precise mechanics.
But… if they deployed Flock in Rosedale, it’d be the biggest own goal in the history of Rosedale.
Yay!
Long story short, the system went live this week. They now know who to email about what customer, where to find code, or where data is.
All of this is read only, but it finally synchronised everything.
The nightmare went away.
Now I don’t want AI running Willy-Nilly over everything, so I set up a central mcp server to allow all these AIs to ask their questions.
MCP = Model Control Protocol
Basically means the AIs have a place to ask questions about where or what things are, so they can get on without humans.
An issue I was already running into that turned into a nightmare was “institutional knowledge”.
Simple stuff like “this person can be emailed for questions about thing X, this person for thing Y” was not there.
For a while I was ahead of my colleagues. Then as AI got simpler from a technological and administrative aspect (to the point that now it’s a service you subscribe to), other people around me also got AIs.
If you know what having a bunch of human employees is like, now imagine that as AI’s.
I’ve messed about with AI characters, making my own, then pushing what will/wont it do.
The reason is simple: when I’m asked professionally for my opinion, I’d like to give an answer and have receipts to back up my answer.
Where I work, AI is always a worry.
Anyone that has known me for any amount of time knows I’ve done stuff with AI before anyone else asks “but will it say/generate …” and the answer is yes. It will.
This weeks thread.
Trying to tie all the AI’s together.
It’s weird.
I was 53 days old when Apollo 17 took off.
It’s now 53 yrs later.
Somehow, with no involvement. With no Input or anything, I feel like something with this will go wrong.
What is that, which goes against the math, and sows a sense of dread?
Dammit. Couldn’t you wait until I was on a laptop screen? Ha ha!
I appreciate humour.
Others won’t
I also appreciate why they won’t.
But don’t change. Some of us need to laugh at the reality. That’s how we get through.
This was a weird thing to watch. I spent my whole life wondering why we didn’t go back. Then we lost supersonic flight with Concorde. It was like we regressed.
Finally, a weird coincidence. I was born 53 days before Apollo 17s launch on Dec 7 1972. I’m 53 yrs old watching the subsequent flight.
About Artemis II
Usually I don’t feel old.
I was 53 days old when Apollo 17 went up. I wasn’t looking 53 yrs old when the next moon launch went up.
If you start a war, you’re not in “defense”. Thus, the NATO article and obligations do not apply.
If the USA exits on the basis of being the only country to trigger article 5, whilst claiming that NATO doesn’t help them, this is the ultimate irony.
Currently, the US is playing the opposite card. “Why is nobody helping?”
They’re skewing what NATO was.