The new apartment is coming together. I look forward to a time when boxes are no longer a major part of our day-to-day lives. Between those we unpack and the near-daily arrivals bearing needed household items, I’ve become adept at breaking them down and getting them out of the apartment. Come to think of it, the super is probably looking forward this being over as well.

I usually relegate the AI references to the links section, but I thought this piece in The Times was worthy of note: The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived via FlowingData.

“It might fail a company’s quality test, but it would meet every deadline. That is what makes A.I. coding such a shock to the system.”

Indeed, quantity over quality. This is the world we are living in today. Perhaps it has always been that way, but these large language models can turn stuff out at a volume that was previously unimaginable. I do hope we can, collectively, figure out how to use these things so that they are a net positive.

Links

• An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me via Denis Defreyne’s weeknotes
  This is absolutely terrifying. There need to be safeguards in place to prevent this sort of behavior.
• Your Friends Could Be Sharing Your Phone Number with ChatGPT
  Also terrifying.
• Accenture ‘links staff promotions to use of AI tools’ via slashdot
• Unsung via waxy.org
  “Software craft and quality” a fine counterpoint to vibecoding’s quantity over quality.
• Sliderule Simulator Teaches You How To Do Calculations The Old Fashioned Way