Mythos Firefox, the AI Job Fantasy, and Oregon Red Clover - Related to your interests, Saturday

Also: opinion shows for writers, no-update weeks, and the Spinoza heresies.

Black-and-white woodcut-style illustration of a glass jar labeled 'Richard's Real Mayonnaise' — From: The Brautigan Library

Pushing Local Models With Focus And Polish - Building a DIY AI stack is difficult.
The “AI Job Apocalypse” Is a Complete Fantasy - “The macro story is not a jobless future, where we retire fat and complacent to our Netflix-scooters.” // Yes, but, There is a bit of “disruption for thee, but not for me” going on in pieces like this. No one wants to start their career over at the bottom of the wage ladder, especially if they’re later in their lives. Individuals lives are driven by the micro-economy, has their job been transformed and now they need to (1) learn something new, and, (2) start at the bottom of the career/pay level? // Gen-X kids lived threw off-shoring (neo-liberalism?), and we can tell you the result of “jobs don’t get lost, new jobs are created”: a bunch of unemployed people who can no longer afford their mortgage, their life as a whole. And then you get Tea Parties and MAGA. Good luck to us!
Related: the expectation of this kind of thinking is that people will do things like “buy lots of Nvidia, but if that doesn’t pay off make sure you are doing an MBA and planning a career in non-AI-implementation consulting.”
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview - “Suddenly, the bugs are very good.”
It’s an opinion show - The value of having a column for the write…or videographer.
The stuff nobody tells you about startup marketing
Why do Oregon farms plant red clover every spring?
Poetry: I Too, Dislike It - I don’t know man, this gotcha headline piece was doing well until it included a poem and proved the headline it was trying to disprove. Multitudes and all that.

Pulp magazine cover for Astounding Science Fiction, November 1957, depicting a blue-skinned figure in goggles operating heavy machinery in a dust storm; cover story 'The Gentle Earth' by Christopher Anvil — From: Astounding Science Fiction

Wastebook

“I think it’s probably a good idea to put a moratorium on installing new software for a week or so.” No Updates
“horrifying heresies.” Spinoza, Atheist.

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