Everything around me is rotting, so i build. that is it, that is the whole reason. God built six days and rested one. he could have stopped at function, he could have given us eyes that only see useful things, but he made color. he made sunsets. he made the shape of a woman's back. he made the sound of rain hitting a dirt road at night. beauty was not an afterthought, it was the first thought, everything else came after. i build because the world is falling apart, and a man who does not build is just watching a fire. i lay bricks straight, i put flowers where nobody will see them, i sand wood until the grain is smooth enough to hold without a glove. these are prayers. and the man who says beauty does not matter has never built anything, he has only consumed, and consumption leaves you hollow. everyone i know who only takes has the same eyes, empty, always hungry, looking for the next thing to swallow. hold a hammer instead. hold wood. hold stone. make something that does not need you to survive, and then walk away from it, and feel what that is. that is the closest i have ever got to being alive, and i am not giving it back.
One common issue with personalization in all LLMs is how distracting memory seems to be for the models. A single question from 2 months ago about some topic can keep coming up as some kind of a deep interest of mine with undue mentions in perpetuity. Some kind of trying too hard.
Saw the Mile 13 placard in my first marathon and knew I would finish.
The longest I’d ever run was 10 miles; 2 days prior.
Mile 22… saw the white light. Couldn’t feel my legs. AirPods dead.
The mind had already made its decision. What a life
highly recommend reading “being digital” by nicholas negroponte.
thesis: software eventually commoditizes everything it touches (atoms to bits)
the agentic era we’re in is the reverse shift — bits will now command atoms.
nobody building in this era should skip it.
Just like the movie Transcendence, it seems the optimal move in an AI-dominant world is to position yourself somewhere between working with AI and replacing yourself with it… though every path eventually trends toward the latter.