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Prosody is hard. No AI voice I've heard really nails voice generation with fully smooth and human-like cadence and quality, but they're gradually getting better. Airy voices sound …

The curse of dimensionality times the reality that good metrics are elusive or themselves a bit cursed. Many outcomes you're engineering or product-managing toward are quite squish…

That may be your preference, but it's quite contrary to mine. I have successfully used AI to generate generates "concept art" and logos for projects, presentations, and publication…

I complied Kermit for IBM's AIX in ~1989 as a study in "how compatible is AIX to other Unixes?" Kermit source code remains the high-water mark in my memory for how many different, …

~~have become~~ became, 30+ years ago The office-document format wars played out _at least_ twenty years ago. The path dependence and "everyone uses it" (installed base) inertia of…

Astrophage

Even great words, phrases, and styles, seen too often, grate. I personally love a lot of the Claude (or LLM) lingo. Load-bearing, gate, canonical, blast radius, and friends do a lo…

Concur. Tried on a "this test suite is weaker than I'd like, too often depending on internal state rather than outcomes" problem via Cursor, asking it to "review and suggest soluti…

Not true. Macs easily pass SOC 2 audits. You'll need MDM, installed anti-virus/anti-malware, and reasonable update policies, as with any endpoint. But have passed multiple years' a…

Deeply cynical and reductionist—but not altogether wrong.

That's the best "what is ANE, really?" investigation / explanation I've seen. Directly lays out why LLMs aren't an ideal fit, its "convolution engine" architecture, the need for fe…

Are the Apple neural engines even a practical target of LLMs? Maybe not strictly impossible, but ANE was designed with an earlier, pre-LLM style of ML. Running LLMs on ANE (e.g. vi…

Ecosystem was a huge driver. But even before that, so so easy to get going. 5 minute guided install, if you're doing it yourself. Many web hosting providers auto-installed for you.…

First impression is love that! Need to study it more. We need—or at least I need—a better UI/tool to manage the sequence of edits and collaboration, drafting, rubber-ducking, and e…

Agree with the underlying point: "don't let an LLM do your thinking, or interfere with processes essential to you thinking things clearly through." My own experience, however, is t…

Love this! I've heard that desert sand is fundamentally smoother than beach or river sand. Would love to see some examples of non-beach sand side-by-side with these glorious sample…

Love this! Have wanted to work on a "better situational awareness while traveling" app, but haven't yet had the chance. Reachability of a POI is a great place to start, and I _feel…

> while avoiding AI taint Don't be shy. Tell us what you really think.

This times a thousand! In the years before VMs, containers, and locked dependency manifests, it was essentially impossible to get repeatable builds. There are still a lot of hurdle…

See the embedded video Failed Vocal Attempt (Music Video). However when it is played (at 0:02 or 0:03), it shows a title card for "Neon Dreams." That's the song that seems one part…

_Neon Dreams_ is ELO × Daft Punk.

Sometimes posts like this are just value-signaling. I hear a lot of cynicism and "just you wait, the other shoe will drop" comments along those lines. But combined with the other p…

You might think you can, for a while. Been there, done that. But you probably can not do so sustainably in most cases. Even if you could, would you really be better off building vs…

> If you believe the AI researchers–who have been spot-on accurate for literally four decades LOLWUT? Counter-factual much?

Switching to sovereignty-protecting, locally-hosted collaboration, compute, and storage is by no means impossible. FOSS advocates have been eagerly beating this drum and providing …