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Father to Sherlock (left) and Mycroft (right). PNW Red Sea Pedestrian. Thinking about Gen AI while not having Gen AI do my thinking. Read more than I write. Write more than you’ll read.

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Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

Bilbo looking at his phone top on bottom is ChatGPT After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it? You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.

28.01.2026 01:51 — 👍 7155    🔁 2078    💬 2    📌 43

I thought it was because we all have imposter syndrome and that’s just our way of psyching ourselves up.

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How did it go with the reproduction compared to the photo? I personally find that smaller text in (I.e. author names and paperback titles) is far more prone to hallucinations (could be poor OCR).

27.01.2026 23:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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27.01.2026 10:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Makes a hell of a lot more sense than seeing the film out of a genuine interest in the subject matter.

27.01.2026 10:11 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI

WinRAR is more profitable than OpenAI

26.01.2026 01:26 — 👍 6431    🔁 2225    💬 35    📌 56
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26.01.2026 20:54 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don’t have nearly this level of experience and even I think that it’s insane to use AI to craft safety standards.

Regulatory processes are often written in the aftermath of tragedy and cost cutting — don’t make the same mistake over and over again.

26.01.2026 20:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Actual Alpha Males are anti-fascist.

26.01.2026 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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A little history can be a wonderful thing

26.01.2026 14:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Well, if you’re trained off the corpus of creatives, you’re going to get some of our eccentricities like depression and imposter syndrome.

Program some SSRIs into your next model update, and watch out for dry mouth.

26.01.2026 05:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

When the plastics were neon and far from micro

26.01.2026 05:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not bright, but also far removed from the norms and struggles of real life, unable to see past their bubble of algorithms and adulators.

26.01.2026 04:47 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Counter point: I don’t have any friends, so I’m the most popular.

25.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
25.01.2026 05:13 — 👍 336    🔁 59    💬 1    📌 0

Beneath the frog, a prince! 🫡🫡🫡🫡

25.01.2026 05:02 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

24.01.2026 17:48 — 👍 17710    🔁 5560    💬 174    📌 182
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Learning Dad’s Gen AI Lesson - 20 Years Later. How far will you go to teach your child a life lesson? Spank them? Maybe an intervention? Perhaps a day behind bars so they see what a life of crime gets you? How about publishing an opinion piece in ...

Great analogy. I had a fun little bit of cognitive decline in 2024 during my peak LLM usage. In hindsight, leaning on them to recover was simultaneously beneficial for my short-term emotional health whilst also terrible for long-term rehabilitation. www.linkedin.com/pulse/learni...

24.01.2026 21:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Can’t wait to dig into all of these. Anecdotally, I onboarded to a new team using entirely gen AI (notebookLM into a bespoke multimodal podcast, built a persona/product strategy using Gemini etc), and I’d never felt less comfortable with new data. I simply couldn’t retain the information as I could.

24.01.2026 19:02 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Well, if it was that important, he should have put it at the beginning of the book!

24.01.2026 10:06 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

I’m sure he had ChatGPT fact check it and praise him for his original thinking.

24.01.2026 05:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shabbat shalom

24.01.2026 05:42 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Coast guard?

24.01.2026 05:30 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t be something something.

24.01.2026 05:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sure, in the beginning, my socks were in the air and my jaw was on the floor. But then you scratch beneath the surface, find out how the technology works, and it’s apparent how brittle these technologies are beyond a POC…let alone production.

24.01.2026 04:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is this a case of people actually liking the code or their paycheck (or budget bottom line) depends on them liking the code?

24.01.2026 04:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Swords, sandwiches, and Sanhedrin — the Tal Lavin special!

23.01.2026 19:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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💜💜💜

23.01.2026 19:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hence the AI Slopification of communications and the digital altering of imagery to demean. The worst people are setting examples that will have ramifications for generations to come.

23.01.2026 19:09 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Australians too despite not being NATO members. We bled and died in the GWOT and this is how the leader of the US thanks their allies?

23.01.2026 18:40 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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