The real catalyst for this was a chat with a friend. We shared a few tips and he reminded me of the value of the first hour of the day. Exercise, meditate, anything that actually adds value. This in comparison to the usual suspects who work to destroy your focus.

I set it 5am to 4pm just for the day and had the best day in a while. I then scheduled it to do the same thing every weekday. I've left Audible on, so when I'm e.g. shopping or making lunch that's my only vice, and it's far more beneficial than frequent podcasts or being horrified by politicians.

Yes but Zelenskyy didn’t pretend to investigate Biden when asked. Trump can’t see past that. He’d trash democracy itself if it meant another glitzy hotel.

Given their background and the task, they must have absolutely eaten up the task of training models and generating tokens faster and more efficiently. That's why they keep throwing out amazing repositories with infrastructural improvements. github.com/deepseek-ai

I had a JSON array to insert into BigQuery. Not some big IQ task, just add the data. O3 gave me all sorts of stupid advice, arguing around what an unchecked checkbox meant in the BigQuery UI, telling me I was using a legacy sql dialect etc. Claude just gave me the script in one shot.

I predict the Trump Moscow Glamorzone Palace Hotel will receive heavy local subsidies and no red tape problems. The U.S. and Russian oligarchies will form a single union and oil and gold will all be paid for in TrumPutins -the new digital reserve currency.

TV journalists and podcasters: pronounce Doge as Dodgy from now on.

And that's obviously a generalisation, because some needs might never grow. E.g. any good AI can improve badly-written instructions for cheap toys, and you'll never need a super intelligent agent copywriter.

Very often, average is good enough. Especially in areas where moving fast is more important than perfect. Get a rough solution in place, iterate as needed. At some point, we'll all need experts in design/marketing/code etc, or hope that the models and AI tooling stay ahead of our needs.

There seems to be a strong feeling among basically all roles, that AI helps with things they don't know well but looks suboptimal in areas they do. E.g. copywriting, writing, strategy, code, whatever. You can get "average" output easily, but the tail is long and winding.

You’d better be absolutely bulletproof if you try that. Never mind a bit distasteful. You should be able to see competitors at an event and say hi. One day you might be colleagues. Why make them hate you?

Obviously a red riding hooded chicken with a microphone

Obviously check the sources and eventually speak to a human, but it’s not a bad start rather than reading only whatever you find on Google’s first page.

I’ve recently tried using them as proxies for profiles. I try to trigger the LLM to think like persona X, discover needs. With and without the “search” button as grounding. My thinking is the model has read many opinions from those users. “Search” pulls together a few sources, but can be too narrow