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• Post #4429463

  “Then AI raised the stakes. Users began expecting something fundamentally different from software: not just tools that store and retrieve, but products that reason, generate, and respond. Meeting that expectation means making LLM calls, and LLM calls cost money.”[1] User don’t expect this at all. Users don’t want this. If it’s impacting your unit economics that’s an unforced own-goal

• Post #4359339

  Two exclamation points above a letter is a “boomlaut,” or explosive diaeresis

• Post #3888660

  Lest there be any question

• Post #3676925

  Meet a person on the beach this morning. “I wasnt expecting this wind,” she says “Yeah. It’s been in and out of the forecast. They’re not really good at it anymore,” I say “Please don’t ask why. Please don’t ask why,” thinks my wife

• Post #3635469

  A love letter to Stevie Ray Vaughan regarding his love letter to Jimi Hendrix. Almost note for note (and captures the tone!) until around 4:20, when he makes it his own https://youtu.be/ZMLEBbEny7E

• Post #3560496

  “That’s not in your diet…” “Cheat day!” “You’ve had it.” “I’ve had one, yes. What about second cheat day? Wednesdies?”

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• Post #2232411

  I used to really despise interviewing software developer candidates. Then I did so much of it I got reasonably good enough that people would look to me for advice about it I’m glad I don’t have to do it today. So glad

• Post #1957820

  “On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML” I think I hurt my neck

• Post #1957819

  If I look straight down into the water, and I can see the bottom, does it make a sound?

• Post #1080982

  I joke with my partner that conditions like this are “boring” What you cannot see in this photo is the egregious amounts of guano floating on the surface

• Post #1080981

  Let’s go, people! This chamber isn’t going to echo itself!

• Post #1080980

  There’s nothing like going out and visiting people to reaffirm my reluctance to go out and visit people

• Post #1080979

  _____ is all you need

• Post #1080978

  Promethic has claimed their latest version of Conflagration is capable of setting the entire atmosphere ablaze, killing every living thing on land and sea, and may be too powerful to release to the public

• Post #1080976

  “Going around, Alaska 529” “Alaska 529 git gud, lol”

• Post #1080975

  Do chatbots ever say things like “One theory is that $THEORY, but the sources for this view all give off a serious Time Cube vibe”

• Post #1080974

• Post #1080973

  The vector embedding is not the territory

• Post #1080972

  Charlie Wilson’s Warbler

• Post #950195

  Ah, shit, cool it, y’all. Cops.

• Post #950194

  He is rizzle, fo shizzle

• Post #950193

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@rejectedplates/116352811192887872 TiReD WAshinGtoniaN

• Post #950192

  Recently discovered: many forums support #RSS, and it’s a fantastic way to be reminded when there’s activity

• Post #926502

  All the places to use “fuck” in a sentence, a primer “Fuckin’, who the fuckin’ fuck you fuckin’ think you’re fuckin’ fuckin with, you fuckin’ fuck? Fuck!” (This may require a New York accent to pull off correctly)

• Post #340660

  I saw a book in our local pizza joint, that I initially misread as “The London Flame Thrower Cookbook,” and thought I *must* have a copy of this book It turns out the actual title was “The London Plane Flower & Cookbook” which doesn’t make any kind of sense until you learn there’s a restaurant called The London Plane

• Post #179341

  No! There is no Hüsker Try!