I don’t think “reasoning models” or “agents” change this either. No amount of agentic reasoning can cause the model to create something non-derivative

Personally, I fall into Camp 2, at least when it comes to art. These models may be somewhat of a “black box” still, but they’re still deterministic machines.

Its therefore not OK to use AI to create art, since it’s not meaningfully different from using an “advanced autocomplete” that could “suggest” the works of Tolkien

Camp 2 sees the LLM as a complex, but deterministic mathematical model, and that the existence of copyrighted material in the model means that any generation using that model inherently contains that material.

Camp 1 personifies an LLM, and holds that the use of copyrighted material in training, and subsequent generations is just like humans drawing inspiration from said material. It’s therefore OK to use AI in creating art, since it’s no different from a person being inspired by Tolkien

I’m noticing two philosophical camps when it comes to the question of AI and copyright.
Camp 1 anthropomorphizes an LLM, whereas Camp 2 sees an LLM more like a deterministic prediction machine

If I already reviewed Claude’s code, why do I need to submit that code for further code review? (Only half sarcastic here)

It’s just ✨sparkling automation✨

In 6-12 months we’re going to start hearing about “zero-token workflows”

Spent a good chunk of the weekend setting up OpenClaw. Now that I’m thinking with Agents, I’m annoyed I can’t set it up to do the actual tedious parts of my life like laundry and cleaning.

Couple this with the fact that AI makes it easy to write 1000+ line PRs, it’s no wonder I have a backlog of code to review

But now that I can’t be sure that someone wrote the PR themselves, this heuristic breaks and I need to more thoroughly review everything

I used to be able to use knowledge of my teammates to make code review faster. If I knew someone was stellar at CSS but struggled with writing good tests, I’d skim the CSS and do a more thorough review of the tests

Has AI increased my productivity? For purely coding tasks, sure. But the pre-existing bottleneck of code review has stayed the same, if not gotten worse

People sitting around a campfire in a post apocalyptic setting. The elder says to the others “Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders."

Working on an exciting project at work, but it’s a bit hard to feel engaged at the moment

Can’t say I approve, but this feels like run-of-the-mill American “Monroe Doctrine” interventionism more than anything

Sittim. Sittim is the opposite of standim. But it’s also the opposite of runnin aroun, and standim on u head. This implies that Sittim exists on a complex hyper plane of locomotion. In this essay I will

Web developers: If you are starting a new project from scratch, what styling/css-in-js libraries would you use?

Why is Everyone So Wrong About AI Water Use?? YouTube video by Hank Green

Estimating AI water use is hard and complex. It uses less than growing corn, but building a data center in the desert is still dumb
youtube.com/watch?v=H_c6...

Mark Carney: climate friend or foe? | Front Burner | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen In 2015, as governor of the Bank of England, Mark Carney’s ‘Tragedy of the Horizons’ speech made waves in the global climate community. It was seen as a landmark call for the financial sector to recog...

Having recently read his book, I don’t think Carney is betraying his Value(s), rather he’s responding to the shifting priorities and values of Canadians since November of last year. However, he could probably do a better job at communicating his longer term vision

www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

Canada reaches deal to join EU’s flagship defence program Canada has reached a deal to join the European Union’s €150 billion ($243 billion) military procurement fund, David McGuinty said. Read on

Since no one’s actually shared it yet, here’s the link to the article financialpost.com/news/canada-...

Apple Cash balance of $420.69. Nice

Been saving up that Apple Cash

Probably best to avoid planning a vacation to Aruba now, right?

I’ve unintentionally started reading MCP-UI as if it’s a Scottish name, McPooey

It's also asking for my password inside the chat window instead of automatically focusing the actual terminal window

I really like Warp terminal, but agents seem to have gotten worse in the latest update. Why is it opening `nano` and simulating keystrokes now? It never used to do that, and would just read and `cat >` straight into a file

Genuinely curious how you handle that though. Appreciate the disclaimer, but are you really gonna spend the hour+ to determine whether their code works? And if it doesn’t, how do you provide that feedback since it doesn’t seem like they really understand their code in the first place?

Mint Sage. Still super rough and needs work 😅 github.com/TheSonOfThom...

Couldn’t pay for my NJ transit ticket this morning because CloudFlare is down 🤷