@mitchellh@WilliamsonMark There isn't a day that goes by where I don't mentally use that exact phrase "dogshit" multiple times to describe some UI I'm forced to use. I don't understand why it got this bad.
gpt 5.5 has goblins and can think. claude 4.7 doesn’t have goblins and can think. so it’s not the goblins that make the models think, it’s something else entirely
Observation: usage of LLMs is forcing myself to finally get good at making and organizing notes due to the volume of quality information I'm able to retrieve/generate with them
Adopting Claude speak in my regular life, episode 1:
Partner: Did you do the dishes tonight?
Me: Yes they're done.
Partner: Why are they still dirty?
Me: You're right to push back. I didn't actually do them.
The timeline of my experiences with LLMs is as follows:
2022: That was cool for a few hours
2023-2024: Please stop adding AI to every product
2025: Hey, the output of Opus is pretty good. I can actually use this now
2026: How did we ever do anything before?
I once had a $30,000 fully populated FPGA board that I could NOT find the dead short on
I asked the 65 year old Eng Fellow what to do
Without saying a thing, he took the box with the board in it and we traipsed across Intel's campus
Over pedestrian bridges and through parking garages
Up and down stairways
Until we got to a room of dusty equipment
In the corner was a power supply the size of a filing cabinet with two big terminals and two dials and one switch
Guy hooks up the supply to the 3.3V rail
Dials the power supply to 0.11V and 1000A, throws switch
POW
the corner of the board blows off. Tilted pressfit screw insert.
Turns the power off
Dials it to 3.3V, 10A
Board boots perfectly and worked flawlessly for the next year of prototyping
When I was in high school, I won the Grand Prize at our Science Fair for building a Wilson Cloud Chamber with my buddy, Chuck Thomas. A Wilson Cloud Chamber must be super cooled, so I used dry ice and alcohol. Of course, back then, I could buy the chemicals needed for this experiment, which included Cobalt 60, Lead 210, and Radium. So, we built the Wilson Cloud Chamber to show the alpha and beta radioactive particles and track them. The alpha particles (+2) leave a little vapor trail, about 2” long. The beta particles, at -1 electron, are smaller and wispy. There are cosmic particles that come through the atmosphere and when these particles go through the Wilson Cloud Chamber, we could see them. Have a good Wednesday, everyone.