Software Engineer | Writer | Technologist
Former Engineering Manager, Mobile Apps @BigCommerce
Austin, TX | Mississippi State University Alumnus
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Should transparency about your AI usage be a thing?
With all the skepticism of and outright hostility to AI (with good reason), maybe we should disclose how our products use it. A posted AI Policy could be the new Privacy Policy.
Here’s my app’s: https://hamstersoup.app/ai-policy/
It has the same vibe as Mangione’s: no one else is doing anything, and someone has to. He has well thought out moral underpinnings for why he’s doing it even if his conclusion about *what* he must do is wrong. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
New #MacBookPro day, and spent over 6 hours trying to get #MigrationAssistant to transfer my outgoing MacBook Pro to it. It always just stopped around 25% and gave no indication what was wrong. First via wifi, then several attempts using two different thunderbolt cables before I finally said screw it. Not good, #Apple
I have to say tho, setting up a clean, lean, and mean MacBook vs. bringing over a filesystem that I've been dragging through machines for at least 15 years, not a bad idea.
"Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion, with help from scholars who have studied this phenomenon. The sobering reality is that the United States has regressed, to different degrees, on all 12.”
kottke.org
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