I agree with his take on LLMs, but take issue with his motivation. Why try to get to a “superintelligence” at all? If that’s the goal, then by all means, continue toiling on the LLMs.

Yup. Seems like a glaring indictment of investment capitalism that by design it does not allow anything to be perfected. Things can be good enough!

Latest Honda Odyssey replaced the DVD player with streaming-only. Somebody tell Honda we don’t want to rely on our cell connections during road trips nor mess with streaming hardware. Gimme a pile of discs to shove in a slot any day.

Thunder in late December—even more unacceptable.

Pretty sure dogs actively search out porous surfaces for puke/pee/poop. It’s the only explanation I have in a house with hardwood floors where he only ever does his business on an area rug.

I try to keep a lid on my Gaga bla bla with limited success. My family is long-suffering.

Definitely has strong legal-flavored ADHD energy.

Built… on safety? I think the parents of the kids who’ve unalived themselves thanks to AI would beg to differ.

Grandpa oughta be in bed. Where’s his family?

Don’t expect consistency. To the kitchen for thee, but not for me.

It’s a marathon, not a sprint, as they say. I saw her in September and I think my brain is permanently changed.

One has to replace the earworm with new earworms, so the whole catalog must be explored, etc. etc.

🇺🇸 trifectas get shot at doing something

Obama chose policy (ACA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

Biden chose policy (ARP/IRA). It didn’t fix the authoritarian problem

The platform must be institutional reform next time. Right from the start, as @dhnexon.bsky.social said

Or a head mustache.

Needless to say, CS programs cratering (how could they not with the narrative we are being told?), will just accelerate the problem.

But it’s hard for me not to draw a line back to the drop in talent quality making it seem like a poor investment.

At the same time, companies started devaluing their talent pipeline and growing top heavy, only hiring for experience—folks who already knew how to solve problems. Of course economic factors were at play, too…

It started with the boot camp boom, “anybody can be a coder for hire.” Many graduates could cut it, but many could not, and lacked basic problem solving skills and the ability to think outside the domain they’d been taught. Many struggle to move up and go beyond implementing tickets other ppl write.

Same. Speaking not as a CS major but as someone who has risen to a high level as a tech IC and been in industry for 20 years, the lower end of the hiring pool has been cratering for years. We are not cultivating the next generation of technical leadership who can dig into and solve hard problems.