today one of our media editing suppliers asked for consent to create a deepfake of my voice and sample data reading a script with all the major phonemes and I went nope nope nope nope nope I am okay with finetuning voice recognition, but not letting a corporation literally put words in my mouth.
I've been accepted into @anthropic.com's credits for open source developers programme, on the basis of my arm64 compatibility and optimisation work. I'm very excited to not have to pay for my OSS development tokens any more!
gaaaaaaah I've hit the point of pressing my yubikey or touchid becoming the blocking factor for my LLM productivity, and I'm sometimes _barely_ reviewing the requests before mechanically approving, except sometimes it does ask to push something I don't want pushed, so the gate is helpful but aaaaa
I get almost zero AIL-4/5 fully automated outreach to me on LinkedIn, and very little to my work/personal email addresses. Here's my secret: I embed refusal phrases into my extended bio at the bottom, so that anyone who tries to use an LLM to fully automatically draft outreach to me will fail.
me: huh, I haven't had to update claude code in a few days also me: oh right, @anthropic.com is on coordinated "summer" (northern hemisphere edition) break, except for those poor saps working security and audit and reliability
talk 4 in the bag, out of 6 in a span of 5 weeks. just the big opener for LDX3's building for production stage next week, and a panel discussion on what AI-enabled teams will look like, and then I can take a breather and not give any talks for a few months!
it's fascinating how quickly the r's in strawberry discourse dropped off as soon as people just fucking conceded, no, you don't ask LLMs to think in letters, only tokens.
we live in a world where account execs can build from scratch and drive their own demos, because generative AI can handle the heavy lifting of building the domain-specific load generator and fault injector tailored to the client's industry and ontology (verbs/nouns/adjectives). what a world.
Second time keynoting a conference in regional NSW! I'm kicking off #SlashNEW tomorrow morning bright and early in beautiful Newcastle, after a lovely train ride through the Central Coast earlier today. I'll be discussing the optimist & pessimist cases for AI, and how not to ensloppify everything.
