Zack Zen

Writer, empirical seeker, geek—health, mind, art, design +IT. Zack is amused by speaking about himself in the 3rd person. Chaotic good.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@outsource_ Honestly, I'm not mad. It will cover some of the extra fast token-burning sessions I had that made my max feel like pro for a while. Here's hoping they also fixed that token usage problem so this extra usage goes as far as it should.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@wesroth Asked Claude 4.5 to output a JSON description and gave it to ChatGPT 5 and Midjourney (attached in that order) to create images.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@whynesspower @claudeai I’m so tired of people claiming em dashes automatically indicate AI content—I’ve been using em dashes for forty years because I’m a writer. Saying em dashes automatically indicate AI content simply means you’re not a very good writer.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@sama Would be a lot more interesting to ask for all files to be organized into appropriate category folders with a summary of contents index provided.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

https://t.co/spplyyxxaD

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@sama Mmmmm microplastics; tasty.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

TOS LLM
Chain of Spock Prompting

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@kevinrose we are still in the dark ages of AI and earth history in general. i’m an optimist.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@fchollet @mikeknoop @ndeainc Pipe DC backslash! That's it! 😀

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@fchollet @mikeknoop @ndeainc not done cooking backlash? NDCA? 🤔

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@dschmitt777 @hool_pat When your opinion is based on oppressing others who are not like you, then your opinion deserves zero respect. Inclusive hiring is specifically to make employment decisions based on merit and job-related skills, while ensuring equal opportunities for all qualified candidates

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@shedntcare_ YouTube

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@pronounced_kyle Makes me worry about Kessler Syndrome— Eventually you could have so much orbiting junk that space becomes unusable. Not great to have dozens of new fragments in the geostationary arc where many of our critical satellites operate.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

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[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@MaxZiebell Yup, same thing happening for me.

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@jakemor Always hoped I could leg peach one day. 😃

[Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology @HaggardHawks]

Word of the Day: FORCE-PUT (n.) a choice or decision rendered unavoidable due to a change of circumstances

[Zack Zen @techshaman]

@evanplace @MKBHD Bingo.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

By referring to LLMs as AI, we’ve created a growing problem.

AI suggests some form of “intelligence” (in the name!) And so by referring to “AI tools” (that are LLM tools!) many assume we’re talking about this.

But LLMs are not behaving like we expect “intelligence” to do so.