I mean it's obvious that Whiskey Pete has been letting Claude write his speeches and make his decisions this whole time, right?

It's even obvious that Claude is sourcing Colin Jost's "Weekend Update" performances for some of it.

It's probably why he wanted Anthropic to take off all the guard rails so that he can use it to commit more and better war crimes.

My Audi has this indirect system too.

One downside for me is that while it will alert me to an abnormal leak, it won't (hasn't, in 4 years) alerted me to uniform low pressure across all four, such as during a cold snap in the fall.

But the culvert at the end of my driveway is basically a speed bump, and it *will feel wrong if the pressure is low.

Dad was never one to assign long papers.

Used to tell his students that if they can't say what they need to say in 3 pages (single-sided), they don't understand the subject.

Older generations have always said that younger generations are weak, but the other day i saw someone complaining that it's unrealistic to expect people to write a 600-word essay without help from an LLM.

I wrote 10-page papers in freakin high school. Granted it was a private school, but i could get past 600 words in the summary.

i come at this from a weird angle because my father was a professor of creative writing and american lit for 39 years, and he has always been outspoken on the point that it is absurd to suggest that everyone should have a university education, let alone a university education that means that people who have no interest in writing have to do their damnedest to get a D in his class.

FWIW he was also famous for telling lazy students that he can enter their final grade as an F right now and they can stop coming to his class for the rest of the semester.

He retired before the rise of LLMs but says he never had any use for the plagiarism checking websites because he can tell in the first paragraph whether his student wrote it or not. Because he pays attention, knows what their speech patterns and vocabulary are like, so he can recognize their voice on the page.

He also took time to explain to his students the importance of paraphrasing, and the appropriate use of bullshit. Writing with absolutely no BS in it tends to read like an owner's manual for a microwave, so you need a little, but you do need to know how much is too much.

My employer's client has recently been quite firm on the point that we should be "leveraging AI", and more specifically that we should be using "copilot in github".

We're several years into automating regression testing of a large complex web application with UFT aka Unified Functional Testing. This application was built using the oldschool mainframe business model where the customer has to become captive by way of you owning all of their data.

The functional code we author is VB-ish, doesn't do shit outside of UFT, and frankly UFT is a kit to allow you to build a test harness so without the functional code it is just like a box of spirograph toys with no plan.

When you are inside the UFT system and click 'save' after making a one-line change, 8 or 10 encrypted binary files are updated in the filesystem.

"copilot in github", whatever that is, can't read our code.

Oh yeah - I'm a geezer and every time i have thought, "the git commandline is confusing, this must be easier in the gui" the gui was not easier. I use git bash exclusively, and since i know how to use "git stash" i am the git expert on the team. I'm embarrassed for all of us, honestly.