David Neuzerling

Every now and then I’ll think about the 15-year-old Melbourne kid who stole a tram, not to take a joyride but to deliver a tram service. I hope he got his dream job

“I’m not a NIMBY but” is always followed by the most generic NIMBY opinions

I asked a zoomer and they said “deleted or just killed”.

I’m asking if they still gib people

I should never have posted this. I’m just spreading the psychic damage

Got called grandpa for saying “frag”, to mean killing someone in a video game. 1d4 points of psychic damage

I am not smart enough to understand a script where a variable is redefined multiple times. Plz don’t do this. My brain can’t handle it ☹️

The latest episode of Star Trek confirms that Wham! will still be culturally relevant 235 years from now

It’s somehow less authentic than any other social media, even Instagram

“ChatGPT kills your critical thinking skills”

Nah mate, 10 years in corporate work has already done that

Some LLM hints based on my experiences:

• It’s often better to chain a second “refinement” prompt rather than trying to tweak an existing prompt. If you see common errors in LLM output, get the LLM to correct itself in a second round of processing.
• Put exceptions before general rules in a prompt.

Ten painted T’au Vespid Stingwing miniatures with orange-yellow bodies, bright red guns, and pale cream wings with brown shading. An additional Oversight Drone is present, painted in matching colours. All models are on round bases with sand, rocks, and tufts of green and brown grass.

10 vespids all done! These were airbrushed from orange, through gold, and finally a bright yellow. Finished off with a raw umber oil wash. Really happy with how these turned out.
#warhammer #warhammer40k

I just want a robot to do my laundry for me why can’t the tech bros work on that instead of wellness optimisation subscriptions

It’s nothing impressive. Just some basic LangChain code, and some oil-painted Skaven: mdneuzerling.com/post/wrangli...

I didn’t want to use AI slop for the headers of my tech blog posts, but then I realised that it’s a personal blog that I have 100% ownership over, so I just started using pictures of my recently painted Warhammer models instead. They’re completely irrelevant to the content. No one can stop me

If you’re submitting an AI-generated resume, at least make sure your LinkedIn URL isn’t a ChatGPT redirect link 🙄

Screenshot of job posting by Unilever for “Ice Cream Head of Artificial Intelligence”

New AI job title just dropped

You can’t think of any drudgery that you wouldn’t rather outsource to LLMs?

I used it earlier to fix up some mismatched parentheses, for example.

We are all Murderbot

I’m loving the Murderbot adaption, but what I really want is 19 seasons of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. There’s no where near enough trashy sci fi soap opera

The absolute high of fixing a bug in a programming language you don’t know

Feel like I can’t use emdashes anymore because of the association with AI

Cannot emphasise enough just how useful format-on-save tools like black and ruff are.

Being able to completely stop thinking about code formatting and yet get 100% consistent formatting across a team of arbitrary size? Incredible

New blog post! I use GenAI and Langchain to explore kanban card creation and unit testing.

Markdown should be universally accepted in every text input field

Once you get past the horrendous installation/system management, Python is a genuine joy to use.

I’m a big fan of black/ruff. There’s value in making formatting a zero-thought process.

I like the type hints. I like that they’re strictly opt-in, but there when I need them.

A screenshot of PlayStation trophies for Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, with 100% obtained

I’ve never been so obsessed with a game that I actually finished all of the achievements. This is a first.

I’m going to go door-to-door spreading the word of Clair Obscur. Go play this game

Disco Elysium solved this by having no combat.

Dark Souls solved this by having no story.

All single-player video games should have difficulty options, not because games are too hard, but because no game worth finishing has a combat system interesting enough to outlast its story. At some point I want to click the button that says “reduce enemy health to 10% so I can wrap this up now”

Never gonna forget when someone came onto my GitHub and abused me in an issue because they thought I had misspelt “false” (I had written ifelse)

Clair Obscur is the best JRPG (FRPG?) since Final Fantasy X. Phenomenal art, music, characters, and story. Voice actors include Charlie Cox, Jennifer English, Andy Serkis, and Ben Starr. Don’t sleep on this.

The game is aggressively French. I defeated a mime and it dropped a beret and a baguette.