JFranek

joined 1 year ago
[–] JFranek@awful.systems 1 points 3 hours ago

Sometimes, I get to peer into the AI pilled brain, and it is... uh... not good.

But now if I suffer from Imposter syndrome I can remind myself that some other people take advice from clankers.

https://bsky.app/profile/carnage4life.bsky.social/post/3m634z3r7kk2l

Transcript:

The fact I can login every morning and ask an AI to review all my emails and chats from yesterday then given what it knows about my goals and my role it should suggest what I could have done better is amazing.

Bubble or not, AI is huge for personal productivity and overall improvement.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

AFAIK data warehouse = regular database data lake = place to keep various files that don't fit into DB

Data lakehouse aims to integrate these two, I don't think it's a totally stupid idea.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 4 days ago

In my days, that was called micromanagement and was generally frowned upon.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Context: Post #4 in my sequence of private Lightcone Infrastructure memos edited for public consumption.

(emphasis mine)

Look at this goober, trying to be THE cult leader.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This. Masayoshi son is selling furniture to YOLO more money into OpenAI.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I have no opinion, but I have to note that I keep reading "KeepAssXC ..."

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Pivot to bio-computing

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 7 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Beff Jezos and friends have produced something other than tweets. Possibly. Maybe.

https://youtu.be/Y28JQzS6TlE

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks like a hobby project of someone who has very particular views about computers.

I'm not sure what kind of neural network are they planning to run on a custom FPGA based GPU with 4GB RAM shared with CPU

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 6 points 3 weeks ago

"How dare you suggest that we pivoted to SlopTok and smut because of money if something that we totally cannot do right now is more lucrative?"

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 8 points 4 weeks ago

If you use your business to "do business" it's nice to have good catering.

[–] JFranek@awful.systems 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Simon Willison writes a fawning blog post about the new "Claude skills" (which are basically files with additional instructions for specific tasks for the bot to use)

How does he decide to demonstrate these awesome new capabilities?

By making a completely trash, seizure inducing GIF...

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/

He even admits it's garbage. How do you even get to the point that you think that's something you want to advertise? Even the big slop monger companies manage to cherry pick their demos.

Just felt like I got an aneurysm there.

(in unrelated things, first)

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