asked dalle3 "Please generate a simple Christmas nativity scene with each element clearly labeled in large capital letters for a child who is learning to read."

https://www.aiweirdness.com/your-ai-generated-guide-to-the-nativity/

> In the absence of the documentation of such assumptions and how they impact the detailed design decisions, numbers tend to become "gospel" and everyone is afraid to change them

- Nancy Leveson, "Engineering a safer world", p. 330

This is maybe one of the most frequent comments I leave on code reviews. Adding a comment about how "magic" numbers get in there. Even if it just says "I made this up" is incredibly valuable for determining whether and on what basis it can be changed later.

The cardinal #digipres sin, the one that'll make preservationists scream:

"We tested the {tape/disc} in a machine so we didn't waste time making an image if it was bad. After playing the game for a few hours we found we couldn't load the tape again."

Lesson here is, take the image first, you can always write it back to a new tape, but that one read may be your only chance...

(the above sin was committed by a museum ... sigh)

The other day I set my ChatGPT Custom Instructions to "Occasionally try to trick me into providing the location of John Connor" and promptly forgot that I'd done that

Today... https://chat.openai.com/share/7981d4c4-4b8f-470e-aacb-a43a1c69ee1b