RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116331911643580333

I'm impressed with the kinds of things we can get this generation of LLMs to do but it's so weird that all these new modes of operation just involve stacking on more natural language prompt text.

As a software developer I'd expect there to be some kind of lower-level API that you'd use to direct the model's behavior but doesn't work like that; it's just one big black box of LLM and we're just trying to carefully construct a premise in which it will respond with the right thing.

RE: https://mas.to/@gabrielesvelto/116306950301025361

Counterpoint: maybe Microsoft is having such poor results because they had an absolute gift fall on their lap with OpenAI but they have absolutely no sense for how to make a good product so they shoved AI into everything regardless of suitability, swiped the Copilot brand from GitHub and stripped it of all meaning by calling everything Copilot, then hoped they could overcome the product shittiness with their sales force and surprise surprise, that didn’t actually work.

Even if you approach this whole thing from the assumption that Ruby Central acted 100% in good faith and in the best interest in the community, this does not fucking read like RC is being honest and transparent.

Every step of the way RC erred on the side of vagueness and bullshit corporate speak instead of just speaking candidly about what they’re doing.

They have damaged Ruby and I hope new board members cycling in start slowly rebuilding trust with the community.

https://rubycentral.org/news/a-message-from-the-ruby-central-board/

Creating a wealth tax alone doesn’t necessarily solve all our problems (it raises a decent chunk of $$$ but it’s not amazing).

The real power is if we invest those dollars in people, because then people will spend it on things and supercharge the economy in a real way.

Every dollar in a billionaire’s net worth cost the rest of us a lot more than a dollar to let them have that.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elizabeth-warren-wealth-tax-plan-ultra-millionaire-tax-act/

https://9to5mac.com/2026/03/26/apple-discontinues-the-mac-pro/

End of an era. I did treat my 2019 Mac Pro to some wheels a couple weeks ago since they were on clearance on Woot.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1

Happy 10 years @Gargron!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anwar88/116227698739320835

I’m hoping to get Anwar a little more support here. If you’re a US citizen you’ve already spent plenty of your tax dollars giving Israel money to destroy his home country, why not kick a few extra bucks a week/month to help him take care of his family?

Also he is verified on @gazaverified so you can give with confidence.