Entries tagged with ai
Hall of Mirrors
Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.
"Hold on a sec-". My new boss' now-familiar MacOS desktop appeared in the video call, browser with Claude open, dominating the screen. I watched as he copied the transcript of our call up to that point (he records transcripts of every call in order to feed the text into AI), and began a new chat with the prompt: "Say where Charlie's right, and where he's wrong. Say where I'm right and where I'm wrong." He pasted the transcript and hit enter. I consulted my avatar in the lower-right. We both waited in silence while Claude thought. We were 45 minutes into a call about product roadmap and a possible customer announcement before this interruption. Soon the cursor started skipping along as words began filling the screen. Then, we read aloud through the findings one-by-one. Claude had helpfully given us a bulleted list to work through, an even number of findings for each of us. I felt called-upon to gallantly agree with Claude's softly (oh-so-softly) couched criticisms of my viewpoint, while conceding everywhere Claude expressed subtle (oh-so-subtle) approval of my boss. The call ended shortly afterwards, somewhat awkwardly for both of us. I had just experienced the most baffling mixture of radical transparency and impossible opacity.
Tokens and Dreams
The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself.
The recurring theme running through my mind the last few months has been complexity within a software application. Forget coding. Sales is using AI to write all new code, so for us engineers there's not a hell of a lot to do besides think (and be there to hold the bag).
Ghost in the Shell: my AI Experiment
A man's at odds to know his mind cause his mind is aught he has to know it with. He can know his heart, but he dont want to. Rightly so. Best not to look in there. It aint the heart of a creature that is bound in the way that God has set for it. You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the devil was at his elbow. A creature that can do anything. Make a machine. And a machine to make the machine. An evil that can run itself a thousand years, no need to tend it.
This isn't a post about the machines, though. It is always the human builder that comes first and last.