I suspect the real problem with llms is we want kids to be self-taught because it's expensive to teach them.

I do believe it's better to teach yourself than to be force-fed knowledge, at least if you're the type of person who wants to apply knowledge, and not simply be the expert on all things. So it's better for kids to teach themselves, and for their instructors to keep an eye on them and continue to challenge their understanding. Sometimes that involves asking the learner what he thinks he knows, listening for the fault, and then giving a problem that blows his mind.

Of course the lazy side is that teaching people can be incredibly time consuming, and for in-demand fields that's lost money. There's no financial reward for me training an intern or junior engineer, quite the opposite usually. So if a machine can do it, problem solved on my side.

So the question to the senior person: are you being lazy, or letting them figure things out? Introspective questions always have a conflict of interest bias.

...you can pick your nose. But friends don't let friends have robots pick their nose.

I don't know what metrics people use, but DeepSeek was noticeably inferior in every task I applied, from programming to simple conversation (even if when I avoided taboo conversation topics about Tianamen or Pooh Bear, or Taiwans sovereignty).

All it really did is show people that they don't need to SAAS their LLM, they can have it in their pocket. That's a powerful economic weapon, and I intend to help them insofar as that continues to benefit my interests. The enemy of my enemy is my frenemy and all that.

You don't need a toggle. They have iPad Air, which is the consumer product. And they have the iPad Pro, which ... is for "pro"fessionals. That latter one needs macos. The consumer grade product really does deserve the iPad OS as it stands.

The problem is marketing. They slap this "pro" thing around just to mean "higher end hardware". Most people want the higher end hardware, if they can afford it. They may not want the professional grade OS. So Apple would need to rejigger their naming convention. Trivial bullshit for us nerds, but if you whored your way through college to get that MBA, this is a major undertaking.

It is a great piece of hardware hobbled by awful software.

If he was correct, he wouldn't need to say this.

I have had almost no luck having AI work with proprietary, or even unpopular APIs.

Caveat: I have had much more luck with them when using derived AI trained on said proprietary APIs, assuming sufficient code exists to leverage. So perhaps you need to tell the boss you need to spend money to hire a team of people to train an AI on your various APIs. Once the bill for that one comes in, you'll be safe.

It is Tuesday, chicken TACOs for everyone.

Yes, well in my history of US-based companies doing any kind of tech work, it's always India. And in my experience, right now, due to Trump's TCJA R&D tax grenade, companies are trying to move work back to India again. Since the BBB is once again putting the R&D tax breaks on a fuse set to blow up after he leaves office, companies aren't changing course.

Except this is really about having meetings with India.

Exec's are pretty high on the possibility of firing everyone and are pushing us to use it.

The more likely alternative is that Harry Potter is hugely popular and referenced so many times in so many places that whatever training they did ended up weighting it more heavily. Possibly also people mimicked the author's style and linguistic patterns so much that it is easy to reproduce.

Although I personally liked Sandman Slim, given the subject matter of that book, it didn't have anywhere near the widespread cultural impact.

You cannot die, McLeod. Accept it.

Also Sean Connery.

Although outsourcing is definitely a thing, a lot of companies are just not hiring, even at the expense of shipping new products. Do not discount enshittification and stagnation. Why build a new thing, when you can put lipstick on the old thing.

And we have the steam deck, which does this thing already without inviting MS into the home.