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Cake day: April 19th, 2024

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  • I’m not quite in the same boat (not a programmer) but my job has suggested giving AI a try for some things. I’ve poked around a bit to see if it’s good at those tasks but so far it’s wildly inconsistent. I told my boss I didn’t think it made much sense to try to come up with meaningful workflows using AI because every few weeks the behavior changes and you’d have to re-write documentation and re-think the workflow given the new behavior to make sure it still resulted in good data that could be meaningfully compared to decades of archive. This frequent re-assessment of the entire workflow is necessary to ensure data integrity and takes longer than just doing it manually in steps I purposely designed to make it hard for a human to mess up.

    AI needs human oversight for complex projects because you can’t have pieces shifting around without careful consideration. In my case using AI is a bigger time sink than using tools with precise and reliable behavior because it requires a lot more review. My boss found my reasoning compelling.

    I can imagine it being useful to people in the early early prototype stage when the specifics or efficiency don’t matter much and you’re just trying to get the gist of a new idea.





  • The communist manifesto was written for a different historical moment but so much of it is still spot on.

    I mean come on, it opens basically like “Everyone in the current status quo has already painted communism as their biggest most powerful enemy, may as well unite and make it become that.”

    Feels pretty topical given that multiple countries are thinking about naming antifa, which isn’t an organization, a terrorist group.