I was hanging out with my middle child and they said "I forgot my cardigan. It's OK. I have my backup cardigan." and produced it from their bag. I love that.

I'd add cardigans to that list.

The reward for good work is more work.

Anyway, release the Epstein files.

He begs "Don't empty my mind! Please, I beg you! My mind is all I have! I've spent my whole life trying to fill it!" And this is what I think about my decades-long effort to fill my mind with useful knowledge and why would I want to let a shitty word prediction algorithm replace my brain?

One of my favorite movies of all time is the 1980 Flash Gordon movie. I recall the scene where Dr Zarkov is going to be reprogrammed. He's told "We're going to empty your memory as we might empty your pockets."

And for me I keep failing to understand why we'd want to damage ourselves and our work output by relying on generative AI. Cf David Krakauer talking about this at minute 42: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXa8...

For scraping the insides of a banana peel and smoking it in an effort to get high (Zappa hated drugs), and he throws in "You can't even speak your own f*cking language anymore. You can't write it."

The previous quote reminds me of an aside that Frank Zappa makes on "Tinseltown Rebellion" after an audience member sends a note up on stage that he reads aloud. The note has a misspelling of the word "wearing" that he criticizes and later in a song he's talking about how stupid people are, e.g.,

"[T]he last decades have shown in the Western world a sharp decline of people's mastery of their own language: many people that by the standards of a previous generation should know better, are no longer able to use their native tongue effectively, even for purposes for which it is pretty adequate."

I esp love: "[S]ome people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate 'the ease of programming' with the ease of making undetected mistakes." (I'm looking at you #python).

Further, use of agentic coding requires environmental harm and encourages laziness--and not the good kind that Larry Wall describes in the iconic Programming Perl (camel) book that O'Reilly published.

I know this gives off "old man yells at cloud" vibes, and to be sure, I'm old. I've got almost 30 years of coding experience. I believe the agents that O'Reilly is promoting are predicated on the theft of IP.

So, yes, I have to keep asking my wife to make out in the middle of the day even though she consistently says no.

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