Adam Casto
@acasto.bsky.social
Linux sysadmin, WordPress developer, general nerd into mechanical keyboards, electronics, sci-fi, and <misc geekery> in Pittsburgh now, Asheville long ago.
<thinking>The user is fucked but we have to put this carefully...</thinking>
AI: You're doing great!
User:
AI: You're doing great!
User:
a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a black vest
ALT: a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a black vest
media.tenor.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
<thinking>The user is fucked but we have to put this carefully...</thinking>
AI: You're doing great!
User:
AI: You're doing great!
User:
How can Lee Pace look so cool in literally anything he wears.
December 20, 2025 at 12:23 AM
How can Lee Pace look so cool in literally anything he wears.
**looking around nervously gif**
December 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
**looking around nervously gif**
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about half the people on this website act like the first time anyone lied on the internet is when we managed to teach linear algebra to do it. like separating truth from fiction is somehow a new demand that this talking magic box imposes on us.
December 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
about half the people on this website act like the first time anyone lied on the internet is when we managed to teach linear algebra to do it. like separating truth from fiction is somehow a new demand that this talking magic box imposes on us.
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if part of the “AI makes you dumber” claims is similar to the “it’s a week before xmas and I’ve turned off my brain” claims. We’re in a transitional period and even those of us who keep up on the stuff are unsure of what’s next.
December 18, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It wouldn’t surprise me one bit if part of the “AI makes you dumber” claims is similar to the “it’s a week before xmas and I’ve turned off my brain” claims. We’re in a transitional period and even those of us who keep up on the stuff are unsure of what’s next.
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I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
December 16, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I continue to think LLMs are absurdly powerful for learning, and I'm using them more often for it.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
The problem is that a lot of people don't have solid metacognitive skills around epistemics and autodidactism.
You've got to have a handle on what you know, how you learn, and if you're learning.
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"people need the dignity of work" as a response to a highly automated future is just the Protestant work ethic rearing its head
December 17, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"people need the dignity of work" as a response to a highly automated future is just the Protestant work ethic rearing its head
Nothing says preparedness like your pants falling down as you try to run with all the elements stuffed into your pockets.
December 17, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Nothing says preparedness like your pants falling down as you try to run with all the elements stuffed into your pockets.
What is the deal with users these days thinking developers should consult them on every little thing? Every single day it's a bunch of them screaming about some new feature they don't like on something they don't pay for or create.
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What is the deal with users these days thinking developers should consult them on every little thing? Every single day it's a bunch of them screaming about some new feature they don't like on something they don't pay for or create.
This site is radicalizing me. Going to start looking for property for my data center slash elevator factory.
December 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
This site is radicalizing me. Going to start looking for property for my data center slash elevator factory.
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You cant even prefabricate elevators in America
We are turning into a country of grifters
We are turning into a country of grifters
December 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
You cant even prefabricate elevators in America
We are turning into a country of grifters
We are turning into a country of grifters
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Seriously, why, why why why, is all reporting on this one topic filled with such obviously insane framing decisions?
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Seriously, why, why why why, is all reporting on this one topic filled with such obviously insane framing decisions?
If we ever get to where we can upload into computers the first thing I’m going to do is find the Outlook grammar checker and kill it.
December 17, 2025 at 6:49 PM
If we ever get to where we can upload into computers the first thing I’m going to do is find the Outlook grammar checker and kill it.
Someone in the neighborhood fb group is talking about caroling on our street and all I can think is: don't come here don't come here.
What is the proper response to them? Do you clap? Throw cookies? I lack both the social skills and xmas spirit for something like that. I mean... this is our tree.
What is the proper response to them? Do you clap? Throw cookies? I lack both the social skills and xmas spirit for something like that. I mean... this is our tree.
December 17, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Someone in the neighborhood fb group is talking about caroling on our street and all I can think is: don't come here don't come here.
What is the proper response to them? Do you clap? Throw cookies? I lack both the social skills and xmas spirit for something like that. I mean... this is our tree.
What is the proper response to them? Do you clap? Throw cookies? I lack both the social skills and xmas spirit for something like that. I mean... this is our tree.
So many of those who parrot the anti-AI environmental talking points because they don't like AI don't seem to realize that those originating these claims would gladly come for the things they do like if given the chance. You don't like AI, so what? You like air conditioning?
December 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So many of those who parrot the anti-AI environmental talking points because they don't like AI don't seem to realize that those originating these claims would gladly come for the things they do like if given the chance. You don't like AI, so what? You like air conditioning?
It seems my brother has escalated his DIY snow making this year.
December 15, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It seems my brother has escalated his DIY snow making this year.
I hate how people can't just express condolences without having to do the stupid little "I didn't agree with" or "politics aside" dance.
December 15, 2025 at 7:19 AM
I hate how people can't just express condolences without having to do the stupid little "I didn't agree with" or "politics aside" dance.
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"genAI will never be useful"
Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same. | VentureBeat share.google/6XhheblXS8IK...
Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same. | VentureBeat share.google/6XhheblXS8IK...
share.google
December 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
"genAI will never be useful"
Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same. | VentureBeat share.google/6XhheblXS8IK...
Quilter's AI just designed an 843‑part Linux computer that booted on the first try. Hardware will never be the same. | VentureBeat share.google/6XhheblXS8IK...
Kind of wish there was a game that could connect other games. Like I'm wandering though the brush in a fishing game when I stumble across a cave that leads me into a vault in fallout.
December 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Kind of wish there was a game that could connect other games. Like I'm wandering though the brush in a fishing game when I stumble across a cave that leads me into a vault in fallout.
Really don't want to shovel several inches of snow at 14°F today with my arm still messed up. Think we'll just hunker down and wait it out. Plus the Subaru could handle it if needed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Really don't want to shovel several inches of snow at 14°F today with my arm still messed up. Think we'll just hunker down and wait it out. Plus the Subaru could handle it if needed.
Titanium isn't the most practical material for a flashlight but damn if it isn't sexy.
December 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Titanium isn't the most practical material for a flashlight but damn if it isn't sexy.
Added the label a while ago because I'd forget about the deduplication and compression and think I was missing data.
December 13, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Added the label a while ago because I'd forget about the deduplication and compression and think I was missing data.
The only thing I don't like about data centers is how separate and walled off they are. Let us live amongst them and eat noodles cooked by the heat of the thinking sand.
December 12, 2025 at 11:39 PM
The only thing I don't like about data centers is how separate and walled off they are. Let us live amongst them and eat noodles cooked by the heat of the thinking sand.
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whole lotta people frame their "policy ideas" in the language of "if I was empowered with authoritarian control and resistance was effectively crushed". they miss the entire bit about implementation and incentives for reaction or subterfuge or community buy-in. once you see it, it's everywhere.
December 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
whole lotta people frame their "policy ideas" in the language of "if I was empowered with authoritarian control and resistance was effectively crushed". they miss the entire bit about implementation and incentives for reaction or subterfuge or community buy-in. once you see it, it's everywhere.
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i don’t really think this is an excuse for the level of incuriosity, ignorance, and cynicism on display in the culture though
in the past we celebrated new technological breakthroughs or at least had some humility about our ability to assess them from non-expert perspectives
in the past we celebrated new technological breakthroughs or at least had some humility about our ability to assess them from non-expert perspectives
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 PM
i don’t really think this is an excuse for the level of incuriosity, ignorance, and cynicism on display in the culture though
in the past we celebrated new technological breakthroughs or at least had some humility about our ability to assess them from non-expert perspectives
in the past we celebrated new technological breakthroughs or at least had some humility about our ability to assess them from non-expert perspectives