The Flux ↝

Normal Tech, Dented Porsches, Soviet Watches LLMs Things are moving so fast, it's hard to keep track of the zeitgeist.

Jev, accountability, p(doom) loonies LLMs The big news this week was Jev, which appears to be a general-purpose classifier.

Jarvising, LLMs as the new FSD, More Vintage Cameras LLMs Cory Doctorow's latest is making me think about how the current AI for efficiency is the exact opposite approach to the Toyota Production System.

My youngest child, a Uni-bound Fine Arts student, was gifted an Ihagee Parvola, a beautifully made German camera from the 30's.

Introduction This is a slightly more technical companion to Ihagee Parvola x Instax Mini Restomod, for anyone who is interested in knowing exactly how it came together.

Hugging Face, Vintage Cameras and Uncomfortable Oxford.

Frontier models are not general digital employees.

After not thinking about John Gruber for easily more than two decades, I have been exposed to two of his hot takes grounded in misunderstandings of things I actually understand.

“Safety First!”

Yesterday John Gruber posted a take on Anthropic's text watermarking feature that attracted a lot of attention by making it clear he doesn't understand how LLMs work.

Back in the early days of my career, I blagged my way into setting up an internal management consultancy at Rogers Communications, an enormous national-scale telco.

I spent a lot of time yesterday arguing with someone on LinkedIn.

Last post I told you about "Project Boring" and I elided the details with an all too clever joke.

When I joined Bud Financial as the very first Technical Delivery Director, I landed in the middle of the typical start up chaos.