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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • Okay, so imagine that we actually manage to have elections in 2026, and again in 2028. Also imagine that by then, Trump’s health has gotten so bad he’s no longer president, or has even died.

    In that scenario, I would 100% support the use of taxpayer funds to demolish Trump’s disgusting ballroom, and restore the East Wing as it was the day Biden left office, as closely as possible.

    Furthermore, I would support a long-term effort to utterly and systematically obliterate any trace of Trump, Trumpism, and Trump’s “legacy” in the government. Wipe him from history completely, except as a cautionary tale. Let nothing be named after him, or bear any of his fingerprints.

    Finally, I would obviously support the absolute demolition of any and all of his businesses, to claw back everything he stole from us. Even if it costs more than we’d be able to recoup, just to ensure no one EVER fucking does this shit again. Leave no trace of his businesses standing. Let “Trump Tower” become a homeless shelter.





  • Venture capital drying up.

    Here’s the thing… No LLM provider’s business is making a profit. None of them. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not even Google (they’re profitable in other areas, obviously). OpenAI optimistically believes it might start being profitable in 2029.

    What’s keeping them afloat? Venture capital. And what happens when those investors decide to stop throwing good money after bad?

    BOOM.






  • There are tricks to getting better output from it, especially if you’re using Copilot in VS Code and your employer is paying for access to models, but it’s still asking for trouble if you’re not extremely careful, extremely detailed, and extremely precise with your prompts.

    And even then it absolutely will fuck up. If it actually succeeds at building something that technically works, you’ll spend considerable time afterwards going through its output and removing unnecessary crap it added, fixing duplications, securing insecure garbage, removing mocks (God… So many fucking mocks), and so on.

    I think about what my employer is spending on it a lot. It can’t possibly be worth it.