Human greed knows no bounds

AI slop article

Women in my life often voice their frustration with badly fitting bras or pants. In reality, it really is a problem, but it's a problem everyone just accepts.

It's one of those "if we put a man on the moon, why can't we solve this damn thing" kind of problems.

Throughout my life I've had various girlfriends complain about poorly-fitting bras, especially ones with under-wires that bite or break. It really seems like it should be a solved problem, but I kinda don't think it is.

Food is perishable, clearly we can’t force manufacturers or shops to keep unsold perished stock.

Unsold electronics aren’t destroyed on a seasonal basis to make room for a new collection.

Same goes for books… and pulp from booms can create new paper to print new books on

Or the company just changes the definition of success, so that the metrics (that used to be bad last quarter) are suddenly good

Or just let them use whatever they want…

I mentioned this in my reply, but I am the one that’s expected to fix the computers when they break.

If I am going to be playing free IT duty, I do not think it is unreasonable for me to have a say in what the computer runs.

Iterating on LLM agents involves testing on production(-like) data. The most accurate way to see whether your agent is performing well is to see it working on production.

You want to see the best results you can get from a prompt, so you use features like prompt management an A/B testing to see what version of your prompt performs better (i.e. is fit to the model you are using) on production.

I don’t think the common question is “Why not use Chrome instead of Safari?” but “Why use Safari?”

I have colleagues who are annoyed that I use Firefox because in their world everything Chrome does is standard and browsers like Safari and Firefox are annoying outliers. No matter if something they have implemented in Chrome is _actually_ standard and no matter how proper to the spec non-Chrome browsers implement a feature they see it as a chore to support the spec rather than the Chrome browser.

So, the "Why not use Chrome instead of Safari?” certainly happens.

Battery life.

Here is the neat part about Ruby, your autocomplete barely works and your IDE can only guess what you want, instead of relying on a good language service…

I remapped my capslock key to be control, time to write a cargo cult blogpost!