Tom Lee

I spent last week with my daughter at Camp Ross, part of the Goshen Scout Reservation.

The Pope's encyclical has elicited fascinating reactions from some AI experts.

Andrej Karpathy notes that "people who aren’t keeping up even over the last 30 days already have a deprecated world view" about using LLMs to write code and that devs must "rapidly progress through their grief cycle" to find their new place in the profess…

My Spotify Wrapped was less embarrassing than it could have been--I am frozen in time in the late aughts, but that's fine with me.

The blog update is not the only project that AI coding has allowed me to pursue with wild abandon.

In the spirit of losing less writing output to Twitter, here's something I posted last week that got a surprising amount of attention.

I have been writing a personal blog since 2006, apparently!

Josh Tauberer has written a great and generous post reflecting on the civic tech era and why its successes deserve to be celebrated, even if it has been some time since its heyday.

I just got this email from Scouting America.

Surprisingly few papers use this title!

I found myself chatting with some smart friends over the weekend.

The wordcel versus shape rotator debate was a brief but amusing moment of online faux antagonism.

For many years I led the technical arm of the Sunlight Foundation, which was, at the time, one of D.C.'

I think, or maybe just hope, that this account is true: that LLMs will keep getting better, but that we know enough to understand what an LLM is, and make guesses about what an ideal one looks like, and that it doesn't imply serious threats to the primacy…

Read Benedict Evans, who scorns how it amasses stats on an area in which he's an expert.

Of course it was reasonable to focus on Mangione's interactions with the health care system as we searched for his motive.

One of the reasons I've been slow to leave Twitter is my default skepticism about new services.

Luis Villa notes, with some sadness, the closing of yet another door to the open web--occasioned, this time, by creators' reluctance to make their work available for training AI: [The open web] was inarguably the greatest repository of knowledge the world…

We have just returned home.

Tom MacWright has written an interesting post on LLMs and their effect on the discipline of programming, noting that they represent a grimly ironic answer to his desire to democratize programming, since his enthusiasm for the project was about its potenti…