blogging as art!!! why not? i am drowning in information. all i want is a little fun. a respite from postmodernity. folk say the internet used to be fun. i was there, it kind of was. we can do better! 🔗 blogging as art

Excellent comparison of various LLMs doing AI image generations. Cool UI for looking at the output too. 🔗 GenAI Image Showdown

There’s a lot of knowledge work that can be automated: ‘Where Altman’s comment holds water is in what it hints at, even if it doesn’t spell it out. Most jobs aren’t fake, but many have accumulated layers of automatable junk: compliance checklists, reports nobody reads, emails summarizing meetings that could’ve been Slack threads. That’s the kind of “game-playing” work LLMs are already good at. When Altman says these models will wipe out tasks, not just roles, this is what he likely means.

That title says it all. There are two people I think of here: Tyler Cowen is eternally optimistic. He may say he doesn’t like something or he thinks something is “not the best it could be,” but he’s rarely “negative,” and never bitter. James Watters, despite a rough couple of decades for PaaS (his life’s work) is eternally optimistic. He only talks about positive things and potential, not bitterness about rival technologies.

Meanwhile, humans are still making good Internet videos. 🔗 ✺ CHANNELVUE

‘“The availability of AI devices has also boosted overall spending by more than $30 billion,” Lovelock said. “With the replacement cycle unchanged, the stronger performance in 2025 will result in a lower relative growth rate for 2026, as demand has been pulled forward."’ 🔗 Global IT spend to exceed $6 trillion in 2026

Lots of new features coming in Sora. Clearly not just a side project. 🔗 Coming in the next versions of Sora

Does it seem right that computer systems that use billions of dollars of hardware, electricity, and clean water need my help to add line numbers to a few kilobytes of plain text? No, it does not. But at least this gives me deterministic results for one part of the processing. Recently, though, I’ve observed that Claude Skills are interestingly clever on the command line. Maybe agentic just means “can use Unix pipes.

A lot of effort went into making this effortless. 🔗 Just Talk To It - the no-bs Way of Agentic Engineering, Peter Steinberger

Great, if cynical phrase: hockey stick on wheels: “Consider a team which presents their forecasts in the form of a hockey stick graph,” said Chen on Tuesday. “They come back the next year with their revised forecasts, and they are the same as last year’s forecast, just delayed one year. If you overlay this revised hockey stick forecast on top of the previous year’s forecast, it looks like what happened is that the hockey stick slid forward one year.