Ed Oswald

Weather station on the fritz at 2am? Call Ben, he's up :D

350 nodes. JFC. lol. But when you're building a literal customer service and technical support agent, that actually doesn't seem like a lot.

... i run a weather instrumention retailer (cirruslyweather.com). Luckily this is a market that typically embraces tech. If I do this right, could be a draw. Manufacturer support is notoriously bad and hard to get hold of. This gotta be good, so a week of testing it is.

You know, I could probably ship this AI agent now because half the stuff will barely be used by customers, however I am determined to wow people with this. There's enough shit AI, I want people to say, that was actually cool and helpful. And the tech support side of this is the draw. For context...

This is why Bluesky going a bit more corporate is actually a good thing. They have catered to the left ecosystem almost entirely, so outside of politics there is a very unbalanced view of the world, which isn't really conducive to broadening Bluesky's reach. Simply put, the left alone isn't enough

Skeptics should read up on SCAI. The industry is fully aware of what Ed Zitron and others claim its not. As I've said, he and others are six months to a year behind, which is why these arguments on here are often NOT based in fact, but old, outdated information.

It's also why why i have dived head first into it, to understand. What I can tell you is the skeptics are absolutely dead wrong about AI. But the AI industry also has a LONG way to go before this is where they say it is. Seemingly Conscious AI is turning out to be an actual thing, which is a ruse.

These stories, posts, and arguments either way are stupid. As somebody who makes money from writing words, even now AI is better than 95% of humans. And thank god, some of the stuff I have read in public is horrendous and makes my skin crawl. But not everybody can afford me. Understandable.

Lemme guess, this guy probably follows Ed Zitron.

I should say 25 years of reporting, 20 of which in tech

Exclusive: AI Error Likely Led to Iran Girl's School Bombing Pentagon investigators believe a bombing of a girls' school in Iran on Saturday likely resulted from inaccurate information provided by AI.

This story is bullshit, folks. In 25 years of tech reporting, I had maybe 2 or 3 sources that could have pulled information like this. There is NO WAY a weekly newspaper reporter knows anything other than second-hand. Reporter is also shifty on his explanation thisweekinworcester.com/exclusive-ai...

As a tech journalist for 20 years, I can tell you that the number of journalists with actual access in might be 100 across the country, AT MOST.

Come on, guys, a local weekly with a scoop like this? Unless the journo is moonlighting on the weekends for his or her local paper, I call into question a weekly newspaper reporter having these types of connections to write a quality story on this.

Right here is why i never signed up for that. Thank god i didn't.

What am I saying I love it. I think this app has made me less scatterbrained, now everything is a task with steps lol

Damnit Claude and turning my half-baked insane ideas into usable shippable code. Cursed thing LOL

People like Ed Zitron ARE responsible for this. And the dude has LIED. So are we at the point of this where AI-hate is turning to QAnon like tactics?

.. the fact that he can't even substantiate his claims of Anthropic committing fraud should be enough for many. What Ed's doing isn't journalism, it's just attention-seeking.

... EZ PR has been representing firms working in AI. Most of Ed's claims can be disproven by just a medial amount of research. This isn't journalism, this is a dude that found a community that needed a point person, and manipulated it. You can't represent AI and hate it at the same time.

The amount of people that think Ed Zitron actually knows what he is talking about (and isn't secretly profiting from AI companies behind the scenes) is absolutely chilling. He accurately gave them something they want to believe, meanwhile his public relations firm isn't as anti-AI as he. Folks...

Maybe making money will also get them serious about moderation as well. Way too much disinformation on here, and it's as if the moderation team is weeks if not months behind.

And the fact he blocked me proves it. Anybody who follows this guy is basically getting false information. And yes, he is committing libel by the textbook definition, and sooner or later Anthropic is going to rightfully say, okay, this is enough. Tech media has a bias problem in the worst way.

Jesus accusing companies of securities fraud because you “hate” AI that much is fucking incredibly dumb.

I haven’t seen proof from you that Anthropic is faking anything other than your “vibes.” That ain’t good enough.

Ed, this is great and all, but at some point accusing a company of faking numbers can put you in legal jeopardy as a journalist. This is basic media law, and the first Amendment does not protect journalists accusing companies of fraud.

The market told us where it will go though, which was nice. lol

Oh, to those of you who may have followed me for my political posts and are now getting my opinions on AI - sorry about that. Had to take a break .. plus my timeline was getting taken over by purely political stuff. Need to mix it up a bit so my timeline is useable and a little more informative.

Look at events like PDC. MS used to pack these. Why? The shift from 95 to XP was monumental. But there hasn't been much to chew on for tech nerds since. These types of events are so important to ideas in their early stages: Apple was born out of a 1975 meeting of homebrew computer folks.

Plus, the tech community hasn't had something like this to get excited enough to network about for a very long time. It's good for the industry.

Yes, HUGE security risks with OpenClaw. But it's not like the community doesn't know - visit any FB group, Subreddit, and it's one of the most popular topics. But I strongly believe building a strong platform to "tinker" really is a very good thing for tech overall.