Rob Hunter
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Rob Hunter
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I work with authors to build AI practice tools for their users.
https://downpat.substack.com
I get paid to work with computers (admittedly not PCs), so I'm smaht but there's no way I would have done this on my own. I've never touched WinDbg before, and wouldn't have taken the hours to figure it out. For the right problem space, these tools are magic.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It pointed me to crash dumps, appeared to write parsers for them, walked me through WinDbg Preview steps to narrow things down. When it was time to take action, it gave instructions on disabling the offending module, and answered questions about the performance risks.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
But I didn't want to spend hours reloading the machine only for it to be hardware, and Windows machines must keep crash logs, so I went to GPT 5.2 and left it on Auto. It took n messages, an hour, and a couple hundred megs of debug dumps but it found the culprit - some audio enhancement software.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
My PC's been reliable for 5 years. Crash here and again, but it crashed 3 times this weekend over about an hour of use. The third time was during light Chrome use. I only know one way to fix such a thing - clean install, and hope it's not hardware going bad.
December 15, 2025 at 6:51 PM
I know there's a lot to be outraged by right now, but "you must download an uninstaller for Adobe Creative Cloud" deserves some too.
October 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
And OpenAI's Moderation API: platform.openai.com/docs/guides/...
August 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
It seems obvious to me that if those rails get touched, the correct behavior is to present resources and end the conversation. Apparently that was the initial behavior, and OpenAI changed it:
August 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
May 23, 2025 at 12:45 AM
This is worth a read, especially if (like me) you're pretty pro-AI. From my friend from Google, who's taken the last year+ to do kickass stuff like start a print zine, write indie printer software, and take art courses.

vrklovespaper.substack.com/p/how-to-dra...
March 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
December 13, 2024 at 10:00 PM
I'm not sure that you were wrong
October 20, 2024 at 7:41 PM
Pretty incredible use of LLMs
October 20, 2024 at 7:30 PM
"How's this different from a person reading a book in a library" is fun question, and I don't even know enough about copyright to set aside legal merits. It feels like how they got the book or article matters - even buying a book and scanning it feels better than downloading a shady PDF.
October 13, 2024 at 12:09 AM
We hired a writer rather than a DS or engineer to help write prompts and fix weird outcomes, so I totally agree that opportunities are being created. It's way less obvious to me that people who got into the humanities will enjoy this work.
October 13, 2024 at 12:02 AM
September 27, 2024 at 2:28 AM
When I left Uber, I managed 3 people in SF, 3 in Seattle, 3 in Toronto, and 3 fully remote. I can imagine having some teams in person and some remote, but forcing everyone to the office to be on Zooms all day is the nonsensical norm.
June 21, 2024 at 2:32 PM
Not great
June 19, 2024 at 5:59 PM
I'd recognize that alligator car anywhere
June 7, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Occasionally we get as much joy from the BarkBox as Steven. Drool Intentions from Barkbuster.
May 17, 2024 at 12:51 AM
Slack autocompleted ":+1 <tab>" to 👎 instead of 👍...

If you've had a coworker thumbs down your suggestion today, you may be entitled to compensation
April 19, 2024 at 10:27 PM