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Cake day: July 13th, 2023

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  • I have a coworker who didn’t learn English until his mid-20s, and it was his 3rd language. He’s very hard to understand and is functionally illiterate in English, which is unfortunate because most of our job is done through email or chat. Sometime will send him an email or chat with a request and he will respond with “Call you” and then immediately call them. They hate it because they have a hard time understanding him, and they never get anything in writing from him.

    I suggested that he start using a company provided LLM to take what he wants to write and have it rewrite it for him (or he can write in it one of the other languages he knows better and have it translated). He’s started doing this and his performance at work has completely turned around. He is a shining example for how an LLM can be properly used.

    Then, there’s the VPs in the company who send out emails that have been obviously completely written by an LLM. And they brag about asking an LLM for ideas on how to handle certain situations, or the direction that the department needs to head in. They have outsourced their brains and think it was a brilliant move. They are the ones who deserve scorn.





  • The output is only as good as the model being used. If you want to write code then use a model designed for code. Over the weekend I wrote an Android app to be able to connect my phone to my Ollama instance from off my network. I’ve never done any coding beyond scripts, and the AI walked me through setting up the IDE and a git repository before we even got started on the code. 3 hours after I had the idea I had the app installed and working on my phone.




  • 21 And the Lord beheld Jerusalem, and lo, the cries of the oppressed pierced the heavens-the stranger scorned, the widow plundered, and justice trampled underfoot. 22 Then the Lord spake: "Ye have sown violence; ye shall reap desolation sevenfold. As ye have measured to the poor, so shall it be meted unto you, and My fury shall wax hot as a furnace. 23 And He summoned pillars of fire to devour the towers of pride, and a nation afar, whose swords were hewn as scythes, to break the gates thereof; for the Lord delivered the city into their hand






  • When my wife and I started dating we would occasionally get together with a group of her friends at a local restaurant. There were usually between 8-12 of us, and we’d have drinks and some people would get an appetizer while others ate. My first time at this get-together I was hungry, and showed up expecting that we’d be having dinner. Everyone is sitting around talking, and I’m trying to follow conversations and be involved, but I was distracted by my hunger. The server came over a few times with drinks, but she had never brought menus. 30 minutes or so passed when the server came back, topping off some water glasses, but there was good conversation going so she didn’t interrupt. I meant to politely ask for a menu, but what came out was more of a bark “Can we get some menus!?”. I was so embarrassed, and I’m sure, 20 years later, some of those friends probably still think of me as an asshole who yells at servers. Anyway, I think what I’m trying to say is, maybe this guy isn’t an asshole, but instead he just got stung by a bee on the tip of his finger and he’s showing the server.