Bruce Stephens
@bruce-stephens.bsky.social
And the insights about glucose "spikes" will mostly be obvious: exercise (like a walk) after eating, and eating some non-carby food before the carbs (a salad, say, or some cheese) will help.
November 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
And the insights about glucose "spikes" will mostly be obvious: exercise (like a walk) after eating, and eating some non-carby food before the carbs (a salad, say, or some cheese) will help.
It can also write at least the first draft of comments and commit messages, so that's another win. Not AGI, and certainly not an equal coworker. But a potentially useful assistant, and I think one that I can use to make my life a little more interesting rather than less. Time will tell, I guess.
September 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
It can also write at least the first draft of comments and commit messages, so that's another win. Not AGI, and certainly not an equal coworker. But a potentially useful assistant, and I think one that I can use to make my life a little more interesting rather than less. Time will tell, I guess.
But then I tried asking for a bit of C using OpenSSL functions and it produced something wrong. But close enough that fixing it was a bit of puzzle-solving which I found more interesting than writing the original code would have been. So another win, I guess.
September 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
But then I tried asking for a bit of C using OpenSSL functions and it produced something wrong. But close enough that fixing it was a bit of puzzle-solving which I found more interesting than writing the original code would have been. So another win, I guess.
Can still be practically useful. I've been playing with a local AI. It knows Python (and its library) presumably because there's lots of example code, and I can ask it for some specific (small) functionality and it can provide it. Saves me a bit of work.
September 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Can still be practically useful. I've been playing with a local AI. It knows Python (and its library) presumably because there's lots of example code, and I can ask it for some specific (small) functionality and it can provide it. Saves me a bit of work.
But that's not (I suspect) going to be satisfactory as intelligent agents.
September 14, 2025 at 7:51 PM
But that's not (I suspect) going to be satisfactory as intelligent agents.
My hunch is that we'll end up deciding there's less to this than we want/fear. That what we're using are machines created to give the illusion of intelligence. Because they've been trained to produce the next word based on what other humans have written/said, they're really good at doing that.
September 14, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My hunch is that we'll end up deciding there's less to this than we want/fear. That what we're using are machines created to give the illusion of intelligence. Because they've been trained to produce the next word based on what other humans have written/said, they're really good at doing that.
A colleague just posted an image of half a dozen programmers offering their services for correcting and cleaning up broken things produced by vibe-coding.
September 12, 2025 at 9:22 PM
A colleague just posted an image of half a dozen programmers offering their services for correcting and cleaning up broken things produced by vibe-coding.
So *that's* why the menswear stores have trampolines.
July 3, 2025 at 5:04 AM
So *that's* why the menswear stores have trampolines.
It would be nice if some colour could be added, so everyone could see the giant comical red MAGA hat.
March 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
It would be nice if some colour could be added, so everyone could see the giant comical red MAGA hat.
Alien, Aliens. (And Groundhog Day and The Muppet Christmas Carol are timeless classics.)
March 10, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Alien, Aliens. (And Groundhog Day and The Muppet Christmas Carol are timeless classics.)
It's also a quite different thing, come to think of it. My backups of things are (supposed to be) visible only to me whereas iMessage is very much a network thing.
February 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
It's also a quite different thing, come to think of it. My backups of things are (supposed to be) visible only to me whereas iMessage is very much a network thing.
I guess there was some agreement that changing iMessage would be just too disruptive, at least for now.
February 21, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I guess there was some agreement that changing iMessage would be just too disruptive, at least for now.
To be fair, I find the feature not too bad: you can just type one command and get gdb running on the latest core dump which is pretty nice. (Usually takes me ~10 minutes to work out what that command is, mind.)
February 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
To be fair, I find the feature not too bad: you can just type one command and get gdb running on the latest core dump which is pretty nice. (Usually takes me ~10 minutes to work out what that command is, mind.)
All of the characters have just two arms, two legs, and one head. How boring is that?
February 17, 2025 at 12:57 PM
All of the characters have just two arms, two legs, and one head. How boring is that?
Needs more AI. All the avatars have just two arms and two legs (and one head) each. What fun is that?
February 17, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Needs more AI. All the avatars have just two arms and two legs (and one head) each. What fun is that?
It's very Trumpy, isn't it? You think that surely it'll all quieten down after a few weeks. After all, it can't stay this crazy. Can it?
February 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
It's very Trumpy, isn't it? You think that surely it'll all quieten down after a few weeks. After all, it can't stay this crazy. Can it?
I'm guessing it's 50 different systems. (I've no knowledge of whether that's true. Maybe it's simpler or more complex than that. I'd guess whatever it is is gnarly.)
February 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm guessing it's 50 different systems. (I've no knowledge of whether that's true. Maybe it's simpler or more complex than that. I'd guess whatever it is is gnarly.)
Hey, he completely solved the problem of bots on Twitter/X, didn't he?
February 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Hey, he completely solved the problem of bots on Twitter/X, didn't he?
I presume when the system was started such a database didn't really exist (and couldn't be searched quickly enough). Would anyone design the same system now? Presumably not. I guess the question is how to build (and then transition to) a better system. Not sure President Musk is best for this task.
February 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I presume when the system was started such a database didn't really exist (and couldn't be searched quickly enough). Would anyone design the same system now? Presumably not. I guess the question is how to build (and then transition to) a better system. Not sure President Musk is best for this task.
As I understand it Trump has lost popularity unusually quickly for an incoming President so perhaps that means some people have regrets?
February 5, 2025 at 1:10 PM
As I understand it Trump has lost popularity unusually quickly for an incoming President so perhaps that means some people have regrets?
It should just be called Mario Kart 2 if it's being launched on the Switch 2.
January 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
It should just be called Mario Kart 2 if it's being launched on the Switch 2.
I'm sure your glorious and wise leader will ensure that Mexico pays.
January 8, 2025 at 2:44 PM
I'm sure your glorious and wise leader will ensure that Mexico pays.
So you sorted breakfast and planned ahead for further meals. Seems fine to me.
December 30, 2024 at 9:37 AM
So you sorted breakfast and planned ahead for further meals. Seems fine to me.
If nobody gets sick (or gets pregnant) funding healthcare would be much simpler.
December 24, 2024 at 3:01 AM
If nobody gets sick (or gets pregnant) funding healthcare would be much simpler.
It'll surely be presented as panic. And it'll be hard to present it as something that the electorate should find important (though it is).
December 22, 2024 at 9:13 PM
It'll surely be presented as panic. And it'll be hard to present it as something that the electorate should find important (though it is).