Blake Shurtz

Interested in under-rated ideas. Expect my above-the-fray opinions and tweets with links to good content.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

Flooding the market for software (much of it of low value) may lead one to conclude that this would lead to a lowering of wages or jobs in that field. However, these people forget that it's about supply *and* demand - and that the appetite for software is nearly as infinite.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

The tagline of AI, at least with respect to coding agents, should be something like: "Now software is personal." We are living in the age of democratized software engineering.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

It's not about being right, it's about doing the right thing.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

Psychology only exists in the absence of cosmology.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

How about an LLM that stands between my text editor and the interpreter that just takes my poorly-written code and runs an error-free version without first telling me the right way to do it?

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

When your output tokens exceed your uncached input tokens...

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

I'll admit that I start to get tired of reading after about 10 minutes. Switching over to text-to-voice and voice-to-voice allows me to "shift gears" to a higher amount of information processing.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

Advanced Voice mode is the most under-reported story about advancements in AI.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

Looking for AI solutions at work *that work*?
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Then code your own, my friend.
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https://t.co/uQNeZLml1P

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

drop down menus are the bane of autocomplete

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

If you're going to share a screencap, please for the love of god, screencap the entire screen. What can I say? It's called context.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

GPT4o is like a caffeinated intern and 4 is the the OG I trust.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

"With gratitude, optimism is sustainable." Michael J. Fox

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

News and media have pushed their way too far into our lives. Taking care of your shit, ie. adulting, as well as ritual, character, fitness, career. All of these things should take priority and thus attention.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

The thing about the future is that it keeps on coming.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

It's what Disney music sounds like!

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

Music becomes lighter, sweeter, more hopeful, more... pastoral?

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

It's interesting to hear the change in the sounds of the classical music canon as US becomes a dominant world power post civil war. Case in point - Stravinsky gained US citizenship in 1945.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

Humanities should just be rebranded as "character studies". I think everyone can get behind that and we can move on.

[Blake Shurtz @blakeobeans]

In my (solipsistic) experience, ChatGPT is best used for editing *your* writing before *my* reading of it. Also, as a light cognitive behavioral therapy (talking to Sky). Sky is more rational and moderate than most therapists.