Devlin Bentley

Shelter notes says she doesn't like laps. Turns out she just hadn't borne witness to my ultra comfy lap. My lap is known to cats around the world. #sheltercats

Brought a cat home from the shelter. Due in 2 weeks to get spayed before being officially ours. Get an email from the shelter "you need to bring her back asap she is pregnant." That explains the large nipples, firm round belly, and why she built a nest in my closet. Obvious once pointed out. #cats

I tried openspec. It wrote a bunch of code, marked all items as done, but none of the code did anything. Everything was stubbed out. :/

Chatgpt just tried to commiserate with me about how hard it is to clean metal mesh air fryer baskets.

> Ohhh yeah—that style of mesh air-fryer basket cooks great and cleans like a personal insult. I’ve wrestled with exactly this one.

No you haven't.

#stoppretending

I'm of the opinion that that vibe coded react is still no more productive than the vb6 form designer, but the react code is more verbose and needs more maintenance to keep it working. 30 years on we're almost as productive as Access and VB, and we only need 500x the CPU to load and fill LOB forms!

The move to SaSS was about not needing to pay in house IT teams to deploy and manage software. Writing code has rarely been the hard part, maintenance, politics, deployments, integrations, those are hard. E.g. I just spend 2 weeks on a spec that once agreed on was 30 minutes of code.

The original point of Metro design wasn't flat icons, it was beautiful typography. Windows Phone 7 was a love letter to the written word. Everything moves out of the way so big bold words could stand out. Every attempt at flat design since has been without that love of letters. #wp7 #flatdesign

MSFT of 20 years ago would have come up with a better, more customer focused, AI strategy than what the MSFT of today.

w/o Azure and SaaS $, they'd be more focused on low cost high impact locally ran models. A very different approach than 🔥💵 to gain users. User first, privacy first.

Never get popular and this isn't a problem! I just assume I'm writing for future employers checking my social media history.... Presumably they are the only ones who'll ever read my posts. 👋 Recruiter 5 years from now!

To clarify I'm all in on the future, but I also understand that Star Trek's holodeck would drastically alter society.

The final outcome of Sora is Hollywood vanishing. The final outcome of Google's world models is the end of the video games industry. Direct addictive personalized entertainment beamed right into your brain. The answer to the fermi paradox is TikTok's algos and generative entertainment.

So, just to make sure we're all on the same page, everyone here knows the final outcome of AGI is likely the complete collapse of existing financial systems and potentially social hierarchies right? All the VCs are ok with their money coming useless? Did people forget that?

Random things I use chatgpt for this week:

Checking kernel hardware support, known driver issues, validating FB market deals are a good value, checking driver support status for handheld PCs, Kodi folder layout, shoe brand suggestions, recipes, plant care instructions. #chatgpt #randomstuff

I told chatgpt awhile back that I go all in making authentic recipes and that I have a fully stocked Chinese and Indian pantry. The recipes I'm getting out of chatgpt have replaced every other source of recipes I used to have. #chatgpt #cooking #recipes

Chatgpt 4.x could come up with amazing recipes but the proportions would be wrong. GPT 5 has amazing recipe suggestions and bang on ingredient proportions. You can even feed it existing recipes and ask it to check the ratios of ingredients to make fixes. These are the improvements no one mentions.

Why aren't there a bunch of board games friends can sit around and play on smart TVs? I have an android phone, an android smart TV, but the ecosystem just doesn't exist.

Don't A/B test ads with your paying customers as the guinea pigs... #wtf #thisshouldbeobvious

Verbify verbifies verb.

Everytime someone outside the AI field says AI has no profitable uses I think of the dozen+ profitable AI companies I've talked with who have build solid businesses on tech that didn't exist 5 years ago.

I know it is too late for this PSA but - Make your own eggnog. It is orders of magnitudes better than store bought. The raw eggs won't kill you. It tastes amazing.

capriBlue Apple Cider Social is flat out the best holiday candle. One small candle on my mantle makes my entire house smell great, no black smoke, and one tiny candle lasts all season.

It was for my comp sci degree and it was open topic, we picked anything we wanted to research on. We didn't study any formal systems of ethics.

It wasn't in the 90s. I had one quarter in college as part of my engineering degree. Philosophy also wasn't covered at all, college or public school.

Booted up Batocera on my Intel Mac mini. After boot it started playing loud music, WTF. Went into Kodi, I had forgotten to setup wifi, so I exited Kodi. The entire system locked up. #linuxdesktop

You jest, but intelligence is normally distributed. 2x as many people means 2x as many geniuses working to improve ad delivery at tech companies! (Well except for the ML PhDs, they get to work on AI projects, but everyone else, back to the ad delivery mines!)

Lots of founders had a blast running companies that were Uber for X back in the day. Heck "AirBnB for Pools" is swimply, a successful company!

Another issue is investors jump on hype trains and won't invest in new ideas.

Lost my 12+ year old reddit account to a bot take over. Stole my account (old PW, my fault, no 2fa, also my fault), did vote manipulation, got me banned. Appeal denied. Irritating.

Everyone says phonics is best for teaching reading, but I grew up surrounded by classmates who learned to read with phonics and almost all of them were terrible readers. It is sad we are trying to return to the good old days of kids being merely incompetent at reading instead of actively bad at it.

Code is one of the best books in the field, I read the 1st Ed as a freshman in college and it was basically gave me 2 years of CS theory in 1 book, make all my freshman and sophomore classes really easy. Petzold has been an amazing author for 30+ years, he used to be MSFTs go-to guy.

I have to say though, KDE's session restore code works really well! I have a dozen other complaints about KDE but session restore is A++.