Jon Evans
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On the one hand this was obviously not caused by LLMs, but they may accelerate this trend (I say "may" because Jevons Paradox; another and more interesting outcome is that the term "software developer" will get much much hazier)
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
On the one hand this was obviously not caused by LLMs, but they may accelerate this trend (I say "may" because Jevons Paradox; another and more interesting outcome is that the term "software developer" will get much much hazier)
Having a beer in Jack Astor's in downtown Toronto, watching hockey, feeling very very 🇨🇦
November 16, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Having a beer in Jack Astor's in downtown Toronto, watching hockey, feeling very very 🇨🇦
It's almost always fun to compare contemporary reviews with reassessments. The anti-reviewers at the time were just big mad that the action genre was even a thing. Always instructive to wonder about what dismissed genre today will be reassessed in 30 years...
November 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's almost always fun to compare contemporary reviews with reassessments. The anti-reviewers at the time were just big mad that the action genre was even a thing. Always instructive to wonder about what dismissed genre today will be reassessed in 30 years...
Rabbit-holed to this infamous article from Feb 2020 today www.vox.com/recode/2020/...
October 25, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Rabbit-holed to this infamous article from Feb 2020 today www.vox.com/recode/2020/...
ah, Matt Levine has the deets, of course
October 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
ah, Matt Levine has the deets, of course
This is amazing. It would never have been a Sopranos arc, he's too high profile, Billups is a Hall of Famer! Also, "using technology to steal millions" in poker games?!
October 23, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is amazing. It would never have been a Sopranos arc, he's too high profile, Billups is a Hall of Famer! Also, "using technology to steal millions" in poker games?!
By some distance my favorite subgenre (and yes, it's a whole subgenre!) of EXADELIC reviews.
October 15, 2025 at 3:55 PM
By some distance my favorite subgenre (and yes, it's a whole subgenre!) of EXADELIC reviews.
This Supercharger is unusually murderous
July 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
This Supercharger is unusually murderous
happy canada day y'all (elbows up edition)
July 2, 2025 at 3:21 AM
happy canada day y'all (elbows up edition)
the AI has begun to auto-summarize my AI novel (and does so very well, actually)
June 21, 2025 at 2:13 PM
the AI has begun to auto-summarize my AI novel (and does so very well, actually)
Musk and the tech right more generally on working with Trump
June 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Musk and the tech right more generally on working with Trump
"At $48 per student, the programme was relatively cheap, though still more than the monthly minimum wage in Nigeria." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
June 2, 2025 at 12:14 AM
"At $48 per student, the programme was relatively cheap, though still more than the monthly minimum wage in Nigeria." www.economist.com/graphic-deta...
May 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
I quite like this review, not least because it gets at (if conditionally / hypothetically / uncertainly) what I was trying to do with the fifth act
May 18, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I quite like this review, not least because it gets at (if conditionally / hypothetically / uncertainly) what I was trying to do with the fifth act
Philip K. Dick, fifty years ahead of his time
May 16, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Philip K. Dick, fifty years ahead of his time
Heh I think I'd forgotten about this EXADELIC review
May 15, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heh I think I'd forgotten about this EXADELIC review
"This is not X; it's Y. And it's not Z; it's Q" sure sounds a whole lot like LLM-generated text arstechnica.com/science/2025...
May 15, 2025 at 12:18 PM
"This is not X; it's Y. And it's not Z; it's Q" sure sounds a whole lot like LLM-generated text arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Hey
I got something to say
It's better to burn out than to fade away
I got something to say
It's better to burn out than to fade away
May 13, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hey
I got something to say
It's better to burn out than to fade away
I got something to say
It's better to burn out than to fade away
For fun I had o3 generate a London Tube map. Usual uncanny valley of "hilariously wrong meets shockingly good"
May 13, 2025 at 4:24 PM
For fun I had o3 generate a London Tube map. Usual uncanny valley of "hilariously wrong meets shockingly good"
love how the UK is full of real estate that you can't technically _buy_ per se, but you can lease for a contractual period of *checks notes* 991 years
May 11, 2025 at 4:42 AM
love how the UK is full of real estate that you can't technically _buy_ per se, but you can lease for a contractual period of *checks notes* 991 years
A busy (if blurry) eve in London town
May 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A busy (if blurry) eve in London town
One must admit this sounds much better than "notorious grave robber"
May 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
One must admit this sounds much better than "notorious grave robber"