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The four day work week is a prisoner's dilemma. If everyone did it, then we'd all get a payoff, but if someone defects to a longer work week they tend to get ahead at work. Thus we all do it…

It's difficult to put my finger on it, but there is something about Google's AI UX that I deeply dislike. It has nothing to do with the quality of the response, which seems fine, but... The …

This really doesn't capture the core element of early 2000s LAN parties. You spent hours debugging basic networking issues. There was that one guy who was less interested in gaming than convincin…

During COVID, I was working on an esports startup site that was a mix of social media karma + betting. The idea was you had more karma and your posts got more reach the more right you were. We experim…

For better or worse, I think the future has to be showing warnings on images with no C2PA-like watermarking like we do for insecure web sites. Media can be signed by authors. If the Associated Press s…

I don't say this in a "what a brilliant tactician he is" sense. I think AI in general caught him off guard and he was upset they didn't let him run OpenAI. I'm sure his lawyer…

It seems like the real sour grapes are over the fact they wouldn't let him run OpenAI. If he cared about a payday, ironically, he probably would have had more success because he would have brough…

I think this depends on point of view. I do think much of this comes down to sour grapes that they didn't let Elon control OpenAI, and this is the wedge he chose to retaliate. Would he have sour …

I wonder if Elon ever expected to win, or even cared about winning. It's been obvious for a while that OpenAI becoming for-profit historically wasn't really an issue for him, despite what he…

ABC is a strange place. I'll never forget working at Disney around 2008ish and attending a meeting with an ABC exec. They said to my boss, "I know you don't want to believe this because…

I saw this first hand at a company, and I think this is what happens when you combine FOMO with an utter lack of industry best practices. No one knows where they are going, but are convinced they are …

I would argue the last 20 years of app development is what made people dumb. During the "don't make me think" era of software design, if you wanted to make software you got really good …

I find it odd that the negative posts the author deputizes are pretty downvoted. The Reddit thread in particular has the reply calling the commenter out having significantly more upvotes. The twitter …

My point is that maybe tourism is a nightmare, but it drives a lot of the economy...something Louisiana can't take for granted. Every king cake I've ever had was in Shreveport, but you and I…

This is difficult to determine given how they implement. I would liken them to a professional services organization, where most of the magic is in their implementation for you, and you have to presume…

I supervised a Sierra rollout a while back. Their performance was impressive and the price was great. I suspect both will not be true in time. Their implementation is rather cumbersome, requiring impl…

My roots are in Louisiana, and this makes me incredibly sad. It is such a unique place that has no like, and drives all tourism in the state. Where will tourists celebrate Mardi Gras after it's g…

We already have a centrally curated trust model in https. Browsers only treat connections as "secure" if they chain up to a root CA in their trust store. You can operate outside that system,…

The comments that aren't directly discussing the technical achievement here are bemoaning the destruction to society that AI generated images can cause, which is a fair criticism. I'm genuin…

You're implying social platforms aren't bad actors ;) In seriousness, social platforms attributing images properly is a whole frontier we haven't even begun to explore, but we need to g…

When I was in AP classes in high school, you were required to have a TI-89 calculator. If you couldn't afford one, there were assistance programs. You were not allowed to use a TI-92, which was t…

I remember a TI-89 being mandatory for my AP math classes (calculus and statistics). It was utterly essential for solving problems in a reasonable amount of time. There were programs available to assi…

This seems like a great time to mention C2PA, a specification for positively affirming image sources. OpenAI participates in this, and if I load an image I had AI generate in a C2PA Viewer it shows Ch…

This is probably the fairest counter argument I’ve heard. One can hope that today’s AI will eventually be as cheap as a calculator, though.

I think it's still possible, but to your point it is way harder. Not only that, but as a consumer I never know what is authentic.

Lots of social sites are facing this problem. It's nearly impossible to grow on Twitch without viewbotting: https://x.com/Reedjd/status/2028533060632010759 and Nikita i…

I hear you (see what I did there?) What makes this even more complicated is that multiple models use these terms. Does "high" effort mean the same thing in Claude and GPT?

> Opus 4.7 introduces a new xhigh (“extra high”) effort level I hope we standardize on what effort levels mean soon. Right now it has big Spinal Tap "this goes to 11" energy.

It’s the punchline at the very end of the article. They ended up with a different SaaS vendor.