Christopher Bradford

Dad, CTO at Storied, armchair philosopher & futurist, performer, voracious reader, Mormon transhumanist. Goals: continuous improvement

[Darren Shepherd @ibuildthecloud]

AI can help you do your job, don't let it do your job. If AI does your job, well your not need then. There is no reason to compromise because we have AI.

This was an interesting trap that I already tried. One theory I had was that possibly we could lower the quality and compensate with AI. You might immediately think that's dumb but it's not as stupid as you think.

One of the interesting side effects of microservices was that it actually enabled less good software design. And it was a good thing. Because creating large monolithic applications requires a lot of diligence in design. But when you created microservices, because the scope was much smaller and there were fewer people working on it, you could get away with simpler, less rigid patterns. This actually increased agility with negligible effect on quality. And it wasn't bad. The bad thing about microservices is we just ended up with too many things and too many things cause a huge amount of maintenance overhead and a lot of decreased efficiency.

But what I'm finding with AI is if you reduce your expectation of quality and then you combine that with the implicit pressure to move faster, you get a compounding effect of really poor results over time. So with AI you very actively need to push back to slow down and keep quality but figure out how to enforce that quality more efficiently by leveraging AI.

Everyone who's getting so excited about the amount of crap they're pushing out with AI is just shooting themselves in the foot. Because that crap doesn't provide value. It basically just makes them look good on X for one day. Use AI to increase the value. Use AI to amplify the value that you have to offer.

[Angie Jones @techgirl1908]

AGENTS•md IS the standard

[Average Joe @planetJoseph]

My addiction says “you’re welcome.”

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@nicoraytruth @rand_256 Armand Mass's excellent book _The Angel and the Beehive_ discusses how the institution moves between assimilationism and retrenchment and some of the key contributing factors to these movements.

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@nicoraytruth Definitely

[Ben Goertzel @bengoertzel]

https://t.co/IySz1fv2VI

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@christophcsmith And Cory Doctorow

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@QuinnyPig @awscloud Seems like this could be a browser extension

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@shadcn Plus in cases like your example, building a desired _feature_ means first building / recreating a whole _product_ first ..

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@burkeholland A watched agent never completes... 🤪

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@nicoraytruth ...can you envision how someone might apply a similar interpretive principle to Book of Mormon historicity?

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@burkeholland Actually, it sounds pretty privileged -- not to be harsh, as I enjoy the same privilege and need reminding, but sooo many people have jobs that pretty much anyone could do. It's probably the most common case. We need to make sure our value is not just tied to our profession...

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@christophcsmith No, because they are actually *trillion-dollar companies

*may contain forward-looking statements based on current assumptions, operational context, and available alignment. Actual outcomes may differ materially

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@nicoraytruth Joseph's God says all things are spiritual and matter is saturated with the divine. The mundane -- including manufacturing -- can be holy. The building of temples is another key example.

The late Stephen Webb had a lot of interesting things to say on this front...

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@nicoraytruth I would tweak this slightly: creation includes both generation and manufacture (e.g., the Liahona) -- and maybe it's not too much of a stretch to say that part of Joseph's prophetic vision was to blur such boundaries.

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@CFDevelop @mayurlalwani3 I think I've got that one down... 😝

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@PopePiusIXStan Peirce, Whitehead, Žižek

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@nicoraytruth @thethreefates2 This is a pretty naive take. Church members have historically resisted things like discouragement of birth control, and recent reactions against counsel to be vaccinated (complaints about "woke" leadership) show that there's a lot more to this than just "they will listen".

[Christopher Bradford @cbgrasshopper]

@christophcsmith Yeah, because they also recognized that risk early on and took action