Notices by Michael Bacon (michaeltbacon@social.coop)

@cwebber @jzb @jalefkowit That was in the Big Brother Superbowl ad for Sendmail, wasn't it?

@cwebber

And if you didn't know, now you know.

@koen_hufkens

I am very, very interested in having an AI CEO that I can talk to and which has been given the authorization to give me raises. Please, by all means continue.

@cwebber

https://social.coop/@MichaelTBacon/116397777723382843

@cwebber @promovicz

The people who need Python to be fast write in numpy, which is almost but not quite like writing in a separate language.

@cwebber @kaye

Someone, somewhere is already taking a picture of a whiteboard and feeding it into a model, saying "build this."

@cwebber AWS too.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/amazon-calls-engineers-to-address-issues-caused-by-use-of-ai-tools-report-claims-company-says-recent-incidents-had-high-blast-radius-and-were-allegedly-related-to-gen-ai-assisted-changes

@cwebber To this day I legit love and miss ANSI art.

@alienghic @cwebber

The thing most likely to get people to stop is the end of the massive subsidies for its use that the VCs are currently pouring in.

Already firms are starting to panic a little about token use for things like Claude Code, and are putting limiters in their workers that really defeat the purpose of all of the "YOU MUST USE THIS OR BE FIRED" diktats. But operating indefinitely at those prices will bankrupt Anthropic soon.

So at some point the private equity love affair with everything AI will dry up (possibly because of a Iran war-induced financial crisis), and at that point it's going to be "my org can spend $50k annually on my personal Claude tokens to make me 20% more productive . . . or it could just hire a junior dev?"

There's a chance they manage to optimize this, or get it to work using a lighter weight model. But I think it's unlikely.

@ocdtrekkie @alienghic @cwebber

And I think when that happens, there's enough sunk capital into the models and built data centers that there will be a desperate search for some way to put those to effective use, and I think they'll find something. But I don't know what it's going to be (if I did I could make myself very, very rich, probably).

But I think the downsizing/de-skilling of this period that we're in the middle of is going to leave a gaping hole in the US's tech sector capacity, and I'm not sure it's going to recover.

@cwebber Also, I really recommend this talk. It's very clarifying in thinking about "how will AI change the world?"

As she says, AI doesn't have to be awesome at coding to upend some major social conventions.

https://slideslive.com/39055698/are-we-having-the-wrong-nightmares-about-ai

@cwebber @mttaggart

I had an outbreak of Reply Guys when I posted a thing about Claude Code being able to write shitty but functional code for certain applications, and that not being a good thing overall. A small number of people were very, very angry about that.

@Natasha_Jay

There once was a man from Manchu
Who tried to write a haiku
But he

@cwebber

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMqz2yJKbuA

Cool job working with land trusts!

https://landtrustalliance.org/job-board/southeast-program-manager-2026

#FediHire

@ntnsndr Not to be cheeky, but a freezer. You buy a back-store of both of them and keep them frozen, then just replenish the backstore as you need it.

Alternately, even better, collectivize your backstore. But that's kind of hard for cream cheese or hot dog buns.

Okay so the thing about Chomsky and Epstein . . .

When your faves are consistently jackasses in public, give it a good guess that they are in private too,.

I know Chomsky is fun to watch be a jackass to the most terrible people. But he also kind of seems to be a jackass to everyone else too.

I'm incredibly disappointed in him obviously but I gotta admit my first reaction was, "yeah, that tracks."

TIL: "Tibetan" singing bowls aren't an ancient practice. They aren't even Tibetan.

It's a thing westerners did with ordinary metal food bowls that are common in many parts of Asia. The oldest ones appear to be from Persia, but not as any kind of instrument.

Some Buddhist and Taoist practices uses standing bells, which are sorta kinda similar but not the same.

https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/tibetan-singing-bowls-are-not-tibetan-sincerely-a-tibetan-person/article_7e4dd7ea-6e40-5584-90d6-b864a9e9d129.html

@apm77 they’re absolutely lovely! I came across this after being worried about appropriation in a Christian service. Turns out, there’s nothing to appropriate. It’s just a fun thing to do with a metal bowl that sounds cool.

K just shared with me, "the test for ADHD should be one question: have you ever successfully returned an online purchase?"

Y'all I laughed HARD. SEEN. I HAVE BEEN SEEN.