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Leenalchi on KEXP Live 🎶

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🔗 AI, Tools and Transformation, Benedict Evans

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Narrowly, that means that the task to be automated might be sitting in plain sight but the people with that task don’t see it. This is what leads to the idea of the ‘forward-deployed engineer’ - someone who is a builder, and knows what AI can build, can ‘just’ walk around a law firm or an architecture office and see the opportunities lying on the table that the lawyer or the architect doesn’t see.

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The deeper problem is most of what we’ve automated in the last few decades wasn’t obvious, even if you are a tool-builder, and didn’t have an obvious solution...

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Just about a year ago H was pacing the car park of the maternity unit listening to the Waterboys, waiting for Rory to arrive. Yesterday eve we went out to see them live in Glasgow. Been a bit of a year, but lovely to bookend it with this! Looking forward to celebrating the wee guy today!

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@jamiemchale.com I did not find an alternative. I stopped using the Toggl Raycast integration which was a shame. I actually plan and track via Sunsama now with a toggl integration. It’s just frustrating when I have to step outside or fix the workflow.

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@petecodes.bsky.social They once bought me a curry in a dodgy part of San Francisco. 🥘

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@bertolicus.bsky.social This looks amazing!

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@aveek18.bsky.social John Lewis Cafe has a great view!

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@laidbackbikes.bsky.social Many advantages that also fortunately coincide with things I like to do!

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@laidbackbikes.bsky.social This is exactly why we bought ours. Partner needs the car for her commute, I have the bike for nursery runs and shopping.

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@jamiemchale.com Yeah, it was the heaviest load I’d had on it. I was mostly worried about roots and rocks. Still, great to be out on it. Opens up a bunch of possibilities!

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@jamiemchale.com Reading I like ’em thick, and thought of this thread.

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open.substack.com/pub/experime…

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Finished The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. Enjoyed it! Making progress on my current ten historical novels reading list

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Out at the Founders Meetup Edinburgh last night. Interesting chat with Colin Gray and Cam Blackwood about podcasts and building his business.

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@petecodes.bsky.social For STC, not yet. I do have a Patreon account. Think I’m going to move to Stripe for supporters. Been working on the jobs board instead recently

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@petecodes.bsky.social Awesome!

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@jamiemchale.com Just posted a link to this into the #jobs channel 🙌

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social And sure I guess you didn’t mention sources directly, others in the thread did. But doing the reading, discussion of veracity implies you value checking things.

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social You were replying to me!

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I don’t think you owe me anything but why bother unless you wanted to spend a bit of time?

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Also kinda weird that one of your arguments is to check the sources directly and you didn’t bother to look at my website to validate your claim about writing style!

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social well thanks for determining the state of my critical faculties!

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social I have a website that you can read my writing for the past ten year or so if you want to confirm. I’m pretty sure this has always been my style.

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And yes, I just read but I like to find out things as I’m reading. I think the “brain melt” takes are pretty extreme! No ack that LLMs can be useful.

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social You mean now? No. I usually get output that either pushes back on a point I make and/or gives me some sources to look over with a short summary at the top.

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Why can I use my uniqueness of perception to critically use LLM output?

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@jamiemchale.com One of the first I listed!

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Yes, a little. I usually direct my LLMs to give me opposing viewpoints. Accuracy can be thought of as a reasonable opinion a human might hold in these cases, right?

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social faith? - I’m not claiming to be the best and the brightest, but I read a fair amount, have academic qualifications, and use AI for work. So on both the “does this make sense to me” and “how does AI act in a subject area I’m an expert in” I think my assessment has a reasonable grounding

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Sure, it gave references and sounded pretty plausible for the discussion. I guess there is a risk of hallucination, but the time invested/learning risk tradeoff seems reasonable to me (and will likely only get better as the tools improve).

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Do you think that my appreciation of the book was helped or hindered by these queries to AI?

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social Dialogues between Settembrini and Naphta (I wanted to check my understanding, and expected comprehension of readers at the time);

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So which of these is “brain melting” use of AI? I think these are all reasonable queries, which it seemed to handle pretty well.

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@brandonfriedman.bsky.social But this is roughly what I do. e.g. currently reading Mann’s Magic Mountain. I asked AI about: TB treatment (previously read a book about TB, wanted a reminder) and it gave me a breakdown with sources; Untranslated French section in the middle (wanted confirmation I understood correctly);

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Tomato harvest in the garden 📸

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Watched: The Dark Knight 🍿

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Cycled down to Portobello yesterday. Good fish finger sandwiches from Shrimp Wreck at the front!

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Currently reading: Age of Reason by Jean Paul Sartre 📚

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🔗 Friendship Suffices, L. M. Sacasas

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“I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied,” Illich once said, “it is hospitality.” In the same context, he also claimed that “if there is something like a political life to be, to remain for us, in this world of technology, then it begins with friendship.” “Therefore my task,” he explained, “is to cultivate disciplined, self-denying, careful, tasteful friendships. Mutual friendships always. I and you, and I hope a third one, out of which perhaps community can grow. Because perhaps here we can find what the good is.”

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🔗 AI 174- You’re It, TheZvi

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Ethan Mollick: Decisions about how to use AI in your organization are increasingly organizational design and strategy decisions, not IT choices: How do you integrate agents into your firm? What intelligence will you outsource? What are the boundaries of the firm? What is the role of people?

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🔗 Everyone Arguing About Whether the Midjourney Scanner Can Replace An…, Matt Schwartz

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The Bitter Lesson is simple. AI gets powerful when you feed it raw, unfiltered data and let learning, search, and compute to the work.

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🔗 Agency IS a Virtue, Actually, Dr. Gena Gorlin

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The hardest part of “just doing things” is having things you want to do. Figuring out what you want, and integrating your wants so that they amplify rather than inhibit one another, is essential to the kind of decisive action we associate with High Agency. But having clarity on what you want is not something that just happens to you, at least not for long; it is something you need to build and maintain using your agency. And this includes actively and honestly reflecting on your ideas of what is right and good, lest these ideas end up guilting and...

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Went to see the flamingoes in the wetlands near Bouzigues. Great to see them in the wild! Wish I’d brought my longer lens!

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Went back to Mèze today, with a little more sun than last time. Lovely port with restaurants, just a short walk from a small beach. Perfect wee family day.

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Mèze 🇫🇷

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Spending the week near Étang de Thau in the south of France. Beautiful weather and good food! 📸🇫🇷

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A couple of highlights on AI and writing:

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🔗 Slop Readers, Jacob Falkovich

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Here’s the trick: the substance comes from volition, and the volition, for now, is all human. LLMs can’t write good if you tell them “write something for my catering page”. You’re not giving them any substance, and they won’t bring their own. LLMs write fine enough if you tell them exactly what you want to say and to whom and how, the whole structure of argument and motivation and your personal connection to it. But if you get that far, why let Claude be the only one who hears what you wanted to say? Just publish the prompt.

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🔗 Norma Sancho’s on AI and Education

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So, the question is not only: “Are students using AI to avoid thinking?” The question is also: “What kind of economy and educational system has made a robot feel more viable, attentive, more dialogic, and more intellectually available than the institution charging students for a degree?” If we want students to think first and use ChatGPT later, then someone has to care about their thinking before ChatGPT enters the room.

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Jack watching the boat at Brighouse with his gran 📸

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Long Meg and Her Daughters. Neolithic stone circle, near Penrith. ~3000 BC 📸

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Family day out at Lowther Castle near Penrith. Great adventure playground and a series of gardens to visit. 📸

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Day out at the National Railway Museum in York. The attached WonderLab was good family fun with a giant ball run and pneumatic tubes.

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Lovely sunny day out at Piglets Adventure Farm near York. Recommended for a family summer day. Gocarts, pedal tractor, wee beach area were all favourites.

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Train journey down the east coast with the boy

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