Very weird to spend last night at a game jam with a lot of fun expression of human creativity —mostly from people who (without LLMs) would have had that creativity trapped in their heads — and wake up to a respected professional On Here lamenting that LLMs mean the end of creativity in software.
Hullo new AI-interested follows! My main AI-adjacent interests are around open and AI: both open in the sense of shared knowledge/shared IP; and in the sense of peer collaboration. Post-LLM, we’re still going to do these things: but how?
Guest lectured for “AI and Society” at Berkeley today. Was fun. One student asked (roughly) “if we know this is going to change society, why don’t we just plan what we want and build the better society?” I suggested that could literally be a thesis. A deeply incomplete reading list (not a syllabus!)
Genuinely, not because it's my employer: when SonarQube finds complexity in my LLM-generated code, it feels really good, because I know it can be fixed and stop propagating out to the future. Yay confidence in code.
Spicy take: if your law firm has picked A Single AI Tool, and you can’t articulate why it was selected over other alternatives, you’re in violation of the Bar’s ethical requirement to understand the technology you use.
Today in Tubi ad targeting is weird: political ads for a state-level office in Michigan? Yesterday: the first-ever time I've seen an ad for... legal AI?