Matthew Mark Miller

OH: "The warm, cozy embrace of a Google Doc."

I'm a really basic person when you get down to it. Abbreviate Hawaii to me, I'm going to say "Hi!" back.

savage

New York is the kind of town where you can spy a redhead at the crosswalk so beautiful you'd give up everything for her and before you even reach the opposite side you realize it would never work with a person who walks that slow.

@benjaminahr.mobi @cutfortime.bsky.social it's thanks to you assholes that I can't get an email about tax documents without smiling

As a boy I always wondered why everybody treated C3P0 with such disdain.

Now I know: he was built by a hobbiest who installed a 7B model on him.

I recently had ChatGPT hallucinate a recipe. I realized this when I asked for a link and it couldn't provide one. We found some similar recipes and I had to adjust a little – but it was closer than I expected.

The result -- possibly the world's first apple cider donut cake bars -- was loved by all.

I use AI for this _all the time_

1. No ads (unlike every recipe on the internet)
2. No math to double/halve a recipe
3. Deep explanations of technique
4. Can detect mistakes in the recipe, such as unrealistic ratios.

But I don't need a platform for it because ChatGPT is sufficient.

My question is: if art is so easy a dumbass computer can do it, why get so precious about it?

It's clear the real art is folding clothes, and we resist it.

"Penultimate" is, like, my second favorite word.

Thanking my employee for quality output and delivering constructive at-level feedback in a cheerful sweater while sharing a bowl of dark chocolate almonds.

#justmanagerthings

Somebody should tell them about Mechanical Turk.

Pause for irony.

At this point this is the fastest way for me to identify that the UI has reset to an untrustworthy model.

To be bold and anthropomorphize: I know a lot of people who are too smart to provide clear answers, too.

Curiously, I cannot get 5.1 Thinking to respond as intended: "There are only brown M&Ms."

5.1 Instant and 5.0 Thinking both do.

I'm experiencing a great deal of randomness with the 5.1 model that make it not-fit-for-purpose for repetitive tasks, which are precisely what I use LLMs for.

(It is absolutely unreasonable to have so many companies burning so much capital training roughly the same size models on roughly the same data using roughly the same techniques to produce a product that the market seems not to value.)

White collar work accounts for around 65% of US GDP — or around $19T.

Assuming that 40 minutes amounts to an 8% increase in productivity, we could see an additional $1.6T.

How much of that savings do we think OpenAI will capture? How will they fare in the inevitable AI M&A?

Hank has the sauce, rhetorically speaking.

Couched as: "is it better for the people who live in the desert to process data OR grow pistachios," I think there's a clear winner. I also think it's likely we'll continue to do both…

"Participated in Agile Ceremonies"

I mean...it would be news if you DIDN'T participate...

Was thinking -- boy, it would be great to have some way to review resumes while jogging.

I spend about 1-5 minutes on each, so compress them, print them to audio, maybe with optional video to enhance the strong candidates…

It was about that time I realized I was inventing TikTok for LinkedIn…

"Got pissed off that our build was so slow; rebuilt the whole thing in Gradle. Amortized across the organization I shaved 2 human lifetimes off the build time"

Now that's what I'm talking about.

Hot take: I don't want to see metrics on your resume unless they're fucking amazing.

It's not like I can verify that you improved total system latency by 18% anyway.

Did you make inventory processing so fast your operations team thought you broke it? THAT I want to know about.

A professor of mine once gave us the advice: “Avoid bad art.”

Over the years I’ve discovered it’s terrible advice because so often you can’t, but that directive gives you license to suffer when you need to accept.

Infinite delicious wine is the wrong amount of the wrong drink

I’m not getting my lifts in tonight, am I

Scala developers who no longer work in that language:

does the sense of overwhelming superiority ever fade?

Nobody:

CMOs: Think about what you could do with this technology that doesn't work!

[Any stimulus whatsoever]

Engineering Manager: Interesting.

I'm over here complaining about the state of the world when a character pack for Street Fighter IV costs $30 when I used to blow that much in an hour at an arcade having my ass handed to me.

And them's 1995 dollars.

… were <p> tags ALSO distrupted by the outage?