Hesitant thoughts on LLMs
I've wanted to write a follow-up to my April 2023 post How I'm using ChatGPT as an accelerator for several months. I want to share how I'm using AI today, what I…
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WWDC 2025 wish list
I’m going to keep this simple so that I actually end up publishing this prior to WWDC. Here is my list of wishes for this year across Apple’s operating systems. Add a…
The vibe coding litmus test
Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison's explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it…
Diversions #9: The garlic of March
The sun has returned! I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth's tilt is such that as…
Gus Mueller on Apple and AI
Gus Mueller argues that Apple needs to support developers running LLMs locally on the Mac, rather than simply try to catch up on their own. There isn't one specific quote that I…
What software should be
It used to be, that I was the first person in line to download new software. I'd sign up for beta access, email developers for early looks at what they were working…
Simon Willison: Use AI as an accelerant
Simon Willison, from a clip I created of an episode of Around the Prompt: I love AI as an accelerant of personal productivity improvement. I plan on writing an update to my…
Diversions #4: Tree branches and LLMs
Diversions is the central hub for news about the membership, behind-the-scenes details of my personal projects, as well as a wide variety of links to people, places, and things that inspire me….
Manuel Moreale on “The Browser Company”
Manuel Moreale: It’s called The Browser Company but what they make is a wrapper around the Chromium web browser. So the browser company is making everything but the actual browser. Can you…
How I’m using ChatGPT as an accelerator
Over the last few weeks I’ve begun using the recent crop of AI-powered services in my daily work and I’ve found them to be an enormous boost to my productivity and fun…
Microsoft invests $1B in OpenAI
Microsoft on the investment of a cool $1B in OpenAI: The companies will focus on building a computational platform in Azure of unprecedented scale, which will train and run increasingly advanced AI…
What I saw this week #56 – February 15, 2019
See more in this series. Gravitational Waves – A New Era of Astronomy Begins – Brian Greene hosted a panel about the monumental discovery. Amazing work. The Discarded Image: Episode 01 -…
Waymo is running trials without drivers
Darrel Etherington, for TechCrunch: Waymo is operating at full Level 4 autonomy, sharing public roads with human-driven cars and pedestrians, with no one at the wheel able to take over in case…
A technology predication time capsule
Readers of my blog will know that I occasionally attempt to predict when certain technologies that I write about will hit the mainstream. While I'm very passionate about a few technologies, I…
Self-driving car accidents (because, humans)
Ryan Beene for The Seattle Times: What they’ve found is that while the public may most fear a marauding vehicle without a driver behind the wheel, the reality is that the vehicles…
Google Assistant for iOS is a clunky mess
Karissa Bell for Mashable: For starters, Assistant's iOS app is a confusing, disjointed, mess. You'd think the Assistant would be able to easily link up with all your other Google services, but…
Andrew Ng on the impact of AI
Andrew Ng resigns from Baidu to focus on helping AI impact more companies and industries. In his resignation post he mentions the impact AI is having, and will continue to have, on…