Chris Gardner

Today's hot take: if your "AI" app is calling a COTS model, you're not doing AI. You're using an API...

I was in too much shock over the 500. If I get more than 10, I start closing things

To me, that's how I enjoy the weekend...

I never got invited to any ambassador hangs 😭

Far be it for me to justify anything in Teams, and I understand there are a few edge cases, such as people who live near the edges of time zones, but, what kind of monster would have Teams open when they were doing something that caused them to cross a time zone...

Ya know. I don't even need the jank to go away. I just need to have every step I do to remove some not make more than I fixed apparent

Me, at work:

Well, if you want it cooked correctly, you need to tell me the squirrel is on fire before it's medium rare...

The number of "enterprise" providers that think a valid authentication method is a plain text file on a production deployment is utterly mind boggling...

Living with a neurospicy teenager:

Them: what's for dinner?
Me: it's Monday. It's pasta night.
T: gah, guess I'm not eating.
M: you know, pasta night is your thing, you can stop it whenever you want.
T: No! You can't change it. Monday night is pasta night!

(Yes, they will eat it)

I know you were talking about pipeline/actions stuff earlier. Do you know @mickeygousset.bsky.social ? He's a wonderful person

Ma'am, I'm in Alabama. Summer is from April to October. We make it work by reducing Spring and Autumn to a week, and having Winter be a weekend in January...

Certain parts of agentic AI need a language model, but most cases can use a Specialized Intelligence over an off the shelf LLM to much better results

An in-game render of Ozzy Osbourne, with the logo for Brutal Legend and text that reads, "Free for the next 666 minutes" and the itch.io logo in the bottom right corner

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But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...

🤘 🖤

I swear, one of these days, I'm going to make it down to Texas, I'm going to track you down, and we're going to get a coffee/soda and have a wonderful debate...

This is a much bigger topic than a skeet, but the answer is "it depends." The quick answer is that the current (emphasis on current) anti-ai furor on generative ai (chatgpt et al) is founded. The anti-ai furor on things like agentic AI is not.

I, on the other hand, have been issued MANY, and I have never claimed a single one. I couldn't care less about a PNG...

Don't get me wrong, I am thrilled to hear you got one, and also happy to know there are people who eat those up.

Kudos.

Eh, it's just a number. I mean, last week I turned 7... squared. Totally not a big deal. I'm just 7 times better at being 7, right?

Python is the yaml of programming languages.

Should I buy myself #DonkeyKongBananza for my birthday? I mean, it's not like I really have free time to play it, but a collect-a-thon platformer coming out on my birthday is a sign, isn't it...?

Let the birthday staycation begin!

My first bachelor's was in philosophy. Not only did that pay off now, it REALLY paid off in grad school.

Meee, tooooooo.

Oh, hey. I got an email. #MVPBuzz

Ya know, this DevOps contract is starting to become a lot more ops than dev...

I ended up getting rid of it because too many "swipe menu in from side" actions got read as either "go forward" or "go back." Maybe they've gotten better about it by now...

Look, I'm not saying e'erbody in the club gettin' tipsy. All I'm saying is that it's a holiday weekend. If you do go to the clurb, make sure you make proper arrangements to make sure you get home safe. We love you, and we'll see you on Monday.

Let me know if you want to talk it over. I've been there...

And I would say they come with reckless abandon, but they cause me to wreck all the time...

Ok, FINE. I'll do another #devops contract...

Now ya done it. Now @jainiejaine is going to double down on getting me to help put up her mirrors 🤣