James Medlock

There are two types of Trump II appointees. Guys you haven't heard of because they're 23 year old groypers, and guys you vaguely remember from some scandal revealing poor moral character.

"...taking a great financial burden off the people that I love." To be specific, billionaires.

Based and Shoup-pilled

ah, the discourse...

Three Ways Terminal AI Has Changed How I Work (And Whether It's Coming for My Job) How terminal AI compresses setup, robustness checks, and iteration without replacing judgment, and whether Olivia Rodrigo caused the inflation wave.

If you're not burned out on thoughtful, well-reasoned posts that look at the pros and cons of using AI (LLMs) as a tool, this from @mtkonczal.bsky.social is a good one.

If you get bogged down in the middle, do still read the concluding paragraphs.

newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/three-ways...

Emergency pod time

Looking into it

Having humiliated myself in the arena of sports analytics, I must now relegate myself back to economics where the standards are much lower

@grantbrisbee.bsky.social can you print this skeet out and slip it under the giants analytics office door, it's very important

One year ago...

As a Giants fan I'm doing some research on our new starter.

Years he puked during a game:

2018: 3.29 ERA
2019: 3.72 ERA
2025: 3.31 ERA
Average: 3.44 ERA

Years he didn't puke during a game:

2020: 5.30 ERA
2021: 3.22 ERA
2022: 4.73 ERA
2023: 4.12 ERA
2024: 5.84 ERA
Average: 4.64 ERA

This is the way...

And where it does, it'll often be a disruptive reallocation of labor. But I still am bullish on our ability of finding new jobs to do, so I don't think it'll change the labor force participation rate over the long run.

Yea I should have said not necessarily a huge *measurable* economic impact in my case - it's quite significant to me, but since it's just me, it's not really going to show up in productivity stats or employment stats. That being said, elsewhere I'm sure it will.

thanks diego

Indeed, AI = fax machine

It has gone better than I expected!

I would probably pay $200/month for this and I'm currently paying $20 (at the level things were in August, I would not have paid more than $20). Would not shock me if most of the AI bubble popped and only a few things survived at higher prices.

I think the key thing here is it's using tools based on well documented rules to modify the data. The nicest thing is that it documented those rules for me based on me going through my normal workflow, so it wasn't a ton of work to set up, and I could verify everything.

With the second round, I did some spot checks but mostly trusted it. It's the sort of thing where if I mess up, I will hear from my customers. And not a single issue has popped up, so it seems to me to be a repeatable workflow.

For my first round, I did spend a lot of time verifying everything was working. I did a ton of spot checks, confirmed every custom rule was applying. And all I ever had to do was improve the specificity of my rules in a few cases, no hallucinations found.

One task is compiling a large spreadsheet from a bunch of differently formatted CSV files, making a series of transformations to the data based on my domain specific knowledge, fixing various formatting issues, and creating a machine readable output file.

In January I tried Claude Code out and it immediately turned a 4 hour job into a 15 minute job without any errors. Not a huge economic impact there, I just have more time to go hiking now. I don't buy claims of 20% GDP growth, but I also think a lot of people haven't adjusted to recent improvements.

I'm self employed and have a lot of computer drudgery to do every month. In August I tried out a few LLMs side by side and found them somewhat underwhelming. Helped with some tasks, but hallucinations were a real problem. Saved me maybe an hour a month...

I still think the internet is the best comp for AI. It was a bubble that popped, but the underlying tech turned out to be real. It enabled a bunch of psychosis and slop, but also some genuinely cool stuff. Massive labor market disruptions, but employment levels look about the same.

Easy No-Knead Olive-Rosemary Focaccia With Pistachios Recipe This focaccia, topped with olives, rosemary, and pistachios, results in a crisp, olive oil-scented crust with just the right amount of tender chew.

www.seriouseats.com/easy-no-knea...

Nope for this I just did the regular oven at 550 in the cast iron pan

Hell yeah

Easy No-Knead Olive-Rosemary Focaccia With Pistachios Recipe This focaccia, topped with olives, rosemary, and pistachios, results in a crisp, olive oil-scented crust with just the right amount of tender chew.

Here’s the recipe I used (skipped the add ons) www.seriouseats.com/easy-no-knea...

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