James Malloy

Who else loves classic music from the 1900s like Darude's Sandstorm.

I learned today that the USS Prometheus, which looks like it has four nacelles, has two more hidden baby nacelles that come out when the ship splits up.

Is there a Star Trek ship that has more nacelles than the USS Prometheus (6)?

Star Trek Shows Ranked*

10. Picard
9. Enterprise
8. TOS
7. Strange New Worlds
6. Lower Decks
5. Deep Space Nine
4. Starfleet Academy
3. Discovery
2. Voyager
1. The Next Generation

(*Ranked by number of saucer separations)

I'll say this about Starfleet Academy. It did the only thing I want a Star Trek show to do.

Separate the saucer section.

The most important thing that you, a human out in the world, can do is always remember to ask if the person dooming and glooming about AI is someone who stands to benefit from you believing their product can do your job.

I'm no expert but I predict LLMs will stick around. There are definitely use cases for these predictive models, but I think we will see a lot of the big names collapse and be replaced by smaller more limited use case products. We'll stop calling it AI. It'll get rolled into a lot of products.

Remember, at the end of the day LLMs are just really expensive fancy guessing machines. A lot of the things I hear people talking about being possible with LLMs are possible NOW without a guessing model in the middle.

The cost of running LLM models is enormous and not really getting cheaper. Companies like OpenAI are hiding those costs by not passing them on to their customers. Instead they are eating those costs with millions of dollars of investment capital.

Eventually that capital is going to dry up.

LLM companies have a huge problem. Their products are not finding broad demand based adoption. Companies that do adopt LLM tools are not finding the promised return on investment.

And that investment is HUGE. This is the thing I think will kill most of these companies in the long run.

Companies like Gartner are now predicting that almost half of companies who cut customer service staff will rehire those roles by 2027.

Thirdly, even in Anthropic's own paper about job impact, a huge portion of their analysis is based on projected capabilities. Essentially saying, "we think an LLM will be able to improve this maybe in the future probably"

We know that in reality, LLMs have not produced their predicted value.

Second of all, if you look at studies of layoffs from January 2025 to June 2025, although a lot of the discussion was about layoffs being job related, studies have found that only about 17% of layoffs were AI driven.

Most were companies just not performing well in 2025.

I saw a video where the person was talking about an article about jobs put at risk by AI and I just wanted to share some thoughts.

First of all, the article they were talking about was published by Anthropic who are, of course, not an unbiased observer here.

Me, whispering to my car as the gage nears E: A elle le gusta la gasolina
Me, doing my car's voice: Dame más gasolina

The listing for the house has a Sculpted Trees tag

Haha yes the standout feature of this house is the "sculpted trees"

Shit, I'm running out of time before the Ides of March and I haven't even asked anyone to be my Brutus yet.

Any volunteers?

I want to be clear that I'm still excited about a Mistborn movie. I just don't like or trust James Gunn.

The Polygon headline reads "Brandon Sanderson says Mistborn movie is following the 'James Gunn model' as script takes shape."

So it's going to be an ensemble cast with a weird little guy, a quirky modern music soundtrack, a main male lead with daddy issues, and just a little more sexism than is easily explained by the source material?

We are apparently pulling missiles out of South Korea? We've moved a lot of our ships to the Middle East. Shot of a lot of our high tech weapons and can't rebuild them that fast.

If I were China thinking about a land war with the US wouldn't I want all that?

The fact that we seem to be burning through stores of munitions at an alarming rate in Iran has me laying up at night wondering who benefits from manipulating Trump into doing that?

I've had the phrase "minemaxxing their hormuzpilled opps" stuck in my head since yesterday and I'm sorry but now you have to hear it too.

It's starting to get warm and I can feel my seasonal depression coming back.

I don't believe anyone is employed currently at the IRS and I wont be convinced otherwise.

I find myself with a lot of fears about life and the world but no one to share them with because I don't want to put that darkness on anyone else.

Thou speak'st aright.
I am that merry wanderer of the night.
I jest to Oberon and make him smile

Definitely loaded. I'm better at identifying AI generated images.

Well. I'm apparently very bad at distinguishing between human and AI. At least with that small of a sample.

Gonna need to work on improving that.

Dear Professor X, if you are out there, please explode his brain.

I don't know who needs to hear this but if you're going to San Francisco, don't forget to wear flowers in your hair.