Jacques Chester

Some days are about finding the delicate balance between stimulants and anxiolytics.

RE: @jacques@mastodon.chester.id.au

Happening again this week, despite the Step Change In Capability everyone has been jizzing about.

RE: @carnage4life@mas.to

WE ALREADY HAD THIS

YOU WERE ALWAYS ABLE TO JUST TRY SOMETHING QUICKLY

LITERAL BOOKS WERE WRITTEN ABOUT IT

I DID THIS FOR A LIVING FOR YEARS

I’M SO TIRED

Sometimes it’s hard to explain because you don’t understand it.

Sometimes because you understand it too well.

Another day, another workflow system project

Told some cyber risk quants about the huge LLM push at work. Summarizing their responses:

Meta buys Moltbook. It’s nice to see the “Zuckerberg FOMO -> $$$” pipeline is still flowing

I’ve long felt that LLMs have been trained to emulate mail order copywriters. This list of tropes reinforces my suspicion.

https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md

Turns out that LLM code generation is the best instrument for measuring perfectionist personality ever devised.

I’ve eaten oysters with a better grasp of seasonality than most managers