#thoughts

Ever feel like some videos should just default to 2x? Some just seem - and maybe this is just me - seem so unbelievably slow.

Anybody else got thoughts on this?

Dear Github, Here''s your list of things we need in this, the year of 2026, with the dawn of LLMs now past us and the full bore weight of the Gen AI spectre forced on us. Please fix: 1. Issues need to be about 100x faster to create, manage, log, read, and respond to in a more intuitive way. Intuitive for both us, the engineers working them and responsible for them, but also the Gen AI LLMs we bring the focus to work those issues. 2. Uptime. Nuff' said. 3. The threads of communication are at best confusing, often times trail off into the weeds, and are overall difficult to follow when AI or individuals are trying to communicate through or over a topic. This needs a full UX rework desperately. 4. We need deviation and alternate methods of getting code into trunk that doesn't always dictate a PR needs to be involved. Git is fast, but the process that is involved around it has become cumbersome from many perspectives. Thanks Dearest Github!

The follow up to that rant is, anyone using any type of reasoning system, just like when you're using deterministic systems, you're responsible for nondeterministic systems use. At least you should be. 100%. I'm sure our legal system might be twisted to allow some people - ya know like the rich and powerful - to just skip accountability. Sadly. But otherwise you and I and most of the folks we know are gonna be on the hook for whatever we produce or pair up with AI tooling to produce. That's a very serious and important aspect to remember,

I love AI training when it's like... "AI can make mistakes and introduce security bugs..." yeah, cuz it's trained to do what people have already done. "AI can count things wrong sometimes..." yeah, cuz it's trained on humans and they do that too. "AI can... " yeah, it's trained on human data. It will do the same stupid things, we have to mitigate its mistakes just like we've mitigated our own mistakes. Use it as the tool that it is. Why do folks keep treating LLMs like they're supposed to be deterministicly perfect like a deterministic app. Cut it out. Come on y'all, cut it out. Stop treating it human, get the movie tropes and ideas out of your mind, and strop attributing LLMs (and other AI *things*) these characteristics.

I'm always amazed when someone chooses ticky tacky "new" suburbs vs. inner core ease of life and food, art, and music options. Especially when the crime/etc parity is effectively the same. There are still tons of people that don't realize how much more work it is to be "suburban" and how inefficient "auto-based" lifestyles are vs. an urban lifestyle. I'm on the verge of being relegated to suburban life again and just thinking about the lack of food options, lack of art and music, the isolation and lack of individuality, the increased odd hostility and lack of mental health among a large number of suburbanites gives me anxiety. Suburbanites so often are a very angry bunch of folks without them understanding why they are, all the while blaming the "other" that they don't even know. It is a very odd and upon thorough review, freakishly uncomfortable and strange lifestyle to pursue. If you're a suburbanite and you aren't one of the angry, hateful, othering types, my hat off to you in attaining a higher level of tranquility and zen among that simulacrum of controlled uniformity and madness. Deep respect for managing to maintain yourself in a sensible and respectable manner! Also if you aren't pushing off accountability to rural or urban folks, I add a bow of respect! 🙏🏻

Legit question here. There are studies and reports that have a vast number of people coming out of the education system with low reading and comprehension abilities. It was already a pretty significant problem in previous years, but now it is reportedly worse. If Gen AI/LLMs are basically just pushing us and leading many of us, much of what we do is read, respond, and then trust and verify what the LLMs are creating for us. How on Earth with this cratering comprehension among most people are we - as a society - supposed to maintain any reasonable and capable verification of the results LLMs provide us? The simple answer is we won't and can't expect that. It seems that might be the case. What is the resolution here? Emphasis on resolution vs. solution, because it's going to unfold however it does, it's clearly not in the wheelhouse of humanity to proactively do something about this now. What are your thoughts?