Emily Riederer

cloud.google.com/blog/product... I sometimes like to imagine that AI is a psyop just to get people to improve documentation by elevating markdowns to “serious engineering”

How the Open Knowledge Format can improve data sharing | Google Cloud Blog cloud.google.com

Inspired by this blog post, I was testing out how different LLMs perform `polars` tasks Gemini (Colab - I'm cheap what can I say) did NOT just convert to `pandas` to do a quantile instead of using a window function?! pola.rs/posts/llm-po...

Fluent, not native: agents translating pandas to Polars pola.rs

Throwaway thought, but it’s wildly unhelpful to use AI as a catch all for everything from transformer-based sequence models to agentic coding assistants to LLM generated docs. I suspect sentiment varies a ton across those and lumping them together doesn’t make for a productive conversation

Just occurred to me I don’t think I’ve ever seen a post I thought to be AI authored on Bluesky. Zero ways to monetize and zero clout from building a following here. Incentives are a magical thing

Have utterly read as much AI slop as I can take this week, and yet...

Last night I tracked down Jenny Bryan’s absolutely lovely 2019 UseR! keynote on Code Smells (worth the watch, btw!) riffing off of Martin Fowler Confronting more AI slop documents this morning, may is suggested we adopt the “Claude smells”?

What's the German word for: Sending five people an entirely human-crafted Google doc but being so fatigued of being on the receiving end of Gemini-written docs that you're paranoid they make think any part of it was AI written? Because that was my yesterday

I love the causal ML literature but my most lukewarm take is that we gotta rebrand “nuisance models” as “nuance models”. No reason to insult intricate models that are dealing with quite a lot of complexity for you