MacGyver

I don’t know that I’ve ever considered reduced capacity cases. Seems like that would be a great potential solution - but I’d expect those would be handmade. Better really police your brass I guess.

Neat.

The thing I love about this is that everyone needs a hobby - and I love it when people just send it. Also, your wife is really gracious.

We need pictures. Just sayin…

Man, that Kabar has seen some things. I didn’t even know those were a thing. I’d love to hear some of the stories it could tell.

I’d take you. But my kids have the flu…

As far as I’m concerned, if it never does anything more than write better regex, it will have been worth it.

I think one of the best possible cases is to think of it sort of like a pair programmer who knows the API docs backwards and forwards. It’s unlikely to be able to do anything well by itself. But, sitting beside you it can really compliment your expertise. Or in my case, it can be like, “hey idiot. Don’t do it like that.”

I am very much starting to think about this in terms of “how do we use this for human flourishing“ as opposed to just “how do we make more money off this?” it very much feels like the early days of the microprocessor or the early days of the internet. I pay a pretty decent chunk of money for some of the models I use and still hit rate limits at least three times a day. It very much feels like the old days waiting to get processing time on a mainframe. Or like waiting for data to come in over a modem.

I actually saw a pretty cool refrigeration training setup the other day where the AI could "break" the system a hundred different ways and then work techs through training modules where it teaches them how to diagnose the problem methodically and then helps them learn what wrenches need turning. There will be voices that say, "oh, they're just dumbing techs down - they're just inputting what they're seeing on the gauges and being told what to do next." But, that already exists in a host of ways. At the same time there will be people who realize that they can bring new talent up to speed faster - and that will be really valuable. The module I saw was pretty interesting. It didn't just give them the next step - it walked them through diagnosing the problem in a methodical way. It wasn't just do this next. It was - "you're experiencing these conditions?" Here are the six things that could contribute to that - and let's work through diagnosing it further. It had a lot of "why are you seeing this" that brought the classroom to a hands on lab if you will.

There are certainly cases where that will be the case. Think of all the teachers who are thinking students will just use it to cheat on essays. If someone wants to do that they can - and to be truthful - society already kind of caters to that anyway. It’s not like we need AI’s help. Where I find it insanely useful is at the other end of the spectrum - using AI to work alongside your particular expertise to create things that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise. I’ll give a personal example. I’ve worked alongside two private models for about 200 hours in the last month. I have pretty deep subject matter expertise in some things - and am a mediocre programmer. The people who taught me to code were first generation computer scientists who thought computers might be useful in a lab one day. Their worldview just didn’t foresee a day where increasing the GDP of the internet would be a thing. I know what to do - but syntax can trip me up for weeks. In the last month, working alongside AI as a sort of pair programmer, I’m confident in saying the work I’ve done would’ve reasonably taken three developers and a designer six months to accomplish. It has literally messed with my sleep schedule as I’m working to maximize rate limits so I can ship faster. While some people don’t even realize it’s a thing, and some people assume it’s just a gimmick, the doers of the world are going to be operating at a *much* faster pace. To be honest, I don’t know that I’ve seen more opportunity in my lifetime.

I use a couple private models and one public one. Truthfully with the release of Claude Sonnet 3.6 in November - I went from my previous worldview of “this is kind of neat. I wonder what I could use this for?” to “oh… I should be using this a lot more.” I have a lot of thoughts. I’ll save them for another post. For now, I think it is sufficient to say that the future is already here - it’s just really unevenly distributed.

That’s right. You probably got one made for the southern hemisphere. You know their toilets flush the other way too.

Props to the metro Nashville government - something I rarely find myself saying. They reported 40 trucks out starting before the snow. Of 5800 miles of road in the county - they plowed 2900 of them.

These are great pistols that are hard to find. Somebody should snatch this up.