Alex Wise
@engineer
Shitposter and lover of safety-critical complex systems I'm on Germ DM 🔑
Pretty sure the final chapter in Rovelli's "The Order of Time" wasn't meant to be in the book and is Sandman fanfic that got accidentally sent to the publisher. It's even called "The Sister of Sleep" which is the most Gaiman title I've heard.
My first year at college I was baffled other people weren’t familiar with Ben (1972), the sequel to Willard from the rat’s perspective.
I was working through the show w/ my daughter when this aired. We'd just gotten to the start of Amy's story when he rips through the densest barrage of spoilers for nine seasons of content faster than I could grab the remote.
I've had the 24-hour BBC broadcast of D-Day on my hard drive as 100 mp3s for a couple decades. Decided to ask the LLM to transcribe and create meaningful chapter atoms, then clean the audio and mux into a single m4b. Nailed it first try in ~20 minutes.
I find myself agreeing w/ Acemoglu's arguments ~40% of the time, which is higher than a lot of voices talking about AI. But I think this kind of HABA-MABA stuff is doomed. If human capability needs to be a special snowflake to be considered valuable, well, spoiler alert.
Writing cover letters has always kinda sucked, but now there's extra pressure to make sure I don't sound like an LLM.
If duplicating prompts to LLMs improves performance because they can attend to all the previous tokens, then CLI tools designed for agent use should have both --force and --really-force flags, both required.
sometimes you gotta keep it light and give the AI a little conspiracy theory to think about, as a treat.
"One hallmark of expertise, after all, is a reduction of the degrees of freedom that a decision presents to the problem-solver (Jagacinski and Flach, 2002)" - Behind Human Error
An underdog story about a man who they said was would never have precision, and no one would recall...
Anyway I asked Claude Code what a "Solitaire for teaching people good prompting practices" might look like and it made a detective game where you have to prompt it to examine and report on various evidence: