That was genius. I love sci-fi from the 50's and 60's.

How do they make a 3 hour video about that? Don't they edit anything?

that's already a thing afaik. My friend used to Airbnb a parking space where you could sleep in your own car, a broken down van with a queen mattress (bring your own sheets) and the premium option: an old caravan/trailer with a chemical toilet and outdoor grill.

We found a solution to the traffic AND parking problems in the US. All US drivers have to take a driving test that involves a real child running out into the street at the same time as a squirrel comes running out from a different direction. Driver has to make a quick decision which way to swerve: kill the squirrel or the kid. The driver risks flattening the actual child, which would be manslaughter and carry a 15-20 year sentence. People who really want to drive cars would risk 15-20 years in prison if they failed the driving test.
The child would be real and would get some kind of compensation if they survive. But the squirrel would be a dummy on some kind of track or wire. Squirrels are too difficult to train. Plus they might be protected in some areas.

"Apple has also hired outside productivity consultants "
Not a good look. Did they hire them from a company called Doge?
My guess is having all the people in your company experiment with replacing their daily tasks with a bunch of rapidly changing tools and models, having half of the developers writing MCPs for everything using those tools, AI building on top of AI for AI to use, well you don't get much productivity out of that. But measure productivity in tokens or tool calls, or some metric that says how much you're getting out of AI, code-wise, is going to look pretty good. Because the PR's are HUGE. Mostly comments and stuff, but still huge.

PFAS contamination is confirmed to be widespread in the Great Lakes, where quite a lot of millions of people's drinking water comes from. Probably make 3M figure out how to clean up their messes instead of just paying off individuals and doing nothing.

Video stores were actually the place where I made the most great romantic connections. I worked at a video store in my teens, and it was in the middle of the college campus. College girls were not shy about asking me over to netflix and chill before that was a thing. Good times. I also met the best girlfriend ever at a Blockbuster Video. Netflix and streaming killed all that.

MCP all the things! Claude can spin up an MCP server in your server in 5 minutes. Super low effort, but the investors get all excited which is the important part I guess. Yeah this is stupid and no customer asked for it.

Nope, instead you get something nobody asked for!

Sheewt, I'd be friggin delighted to work at WETA. All day. I'd probably hang around after hours working on projects and sleep in the studio.
The work on armor and the various swords and other gear is legendary. Keeping all that in the physical realm is essential. Sometimes actors can be holding rubber copies of real things for safety's sake, but for example in Braveheart a lot of the scenes where they're charging into battle with floppy axes actually made the cut. But that's not as big a deal as the entire thing being added in in post. If a film takes the cheap route and creates all the explosions and muzzle flashes in post, I'm not interested in watching it. Put some real boom booms in movie.
I know a few fine artists who are also professors and teachers. Some like it, some don't, depends I guess on how much autonomy you have and if the money is worth the time. Having a secure position at a university teaching painting or sculpture is not a bad thing, considering the resources at your disposal there. Being able to do large bronze castings is great if you don't have to buy/build a foundry yourself.

yep, and a lot of other companies had ML hackathons around the same time when Hadoop + Spark, map-reduce and big data were things everyone was geeking out on. I was pretty tired of telling the ML product owners that not all problems needed 6 months of machine learning work to solve. Getting 1% better than a heuristic solution, or just being wrong all the time is not worth the energy spent on building out dozens of AWS Lambdas in python that only ML engineers can read. I'm glad that whole stack has been replaced by something equally over-complicated.

I can see how the stuff Pierre Computer built would fit into Codex. Most of the open source stuff is visual tools for code: diffs/highlighting, trees etc. They put a lot of thought into how to visualize and manage diffs. Probably a good match.

"Any organization will be fortunate to have your expertise."
Just not ours, because we answer to private equity.
That said, running a FOSS business with private equity must be difficult, depending on who that equity partner is.

There are great design companies, for sure. And companies that do other things that have great design. Volvo, Miele, Apple arguably, many others.
But I was saying that artists who want to do art purely for art's sake, not commerce, shouldn't work. Because working for a company can suck the life out of you. Not always, but often.

Adding MCP servers is a pretty minor development task if you have a coding agent that has access to the source code or a libraries of the tool. If the model can figure out how to use the tool from the MCP's resource/tool set then you sorta get multiplied capabilities. Sorta. I'm not saying exponential but definitely more than you had before, and rapidly.