Good advice about using #GenAI as a programmer that generalizes to any type of knowledge work: make it a practice to treat the AI as "a well-read colleague." (And that includes recognizing that well read colleagues can have read weird or biased things or make mistakes.)

Wallingford people —- tomorrow should be a great day for talking to your neighbors about why we need Shaun Scott in the state legislature!

The supreme irony of these Amazon monitoring systems applied to engineers is that there is a 100% guaranteed accurate productivity monitoring system for engineers: it's called "git"

We manage the house now to 600 or lower CO2 ppm & as close to 0 PM 2.5 pollution as possible If you try it, I bet you'll think better, feel better, & sleep better - we're never going back to anything else

This is an absolute banger of a great application of #GenAI: assuming publishers believe complex contracts are necessary on their side, "figuring out what each might mean to me" is an absolute shite use of a human author's time...

I've watched them. Well worth watching (seriously!)

Galaxy brain thing about punditry & public health is thinking that transmission of this magnitude this happens because people are transferring "touching other people's boogers on surfaces to their mucous membranes" so "handwashing" is the answer Just clean the g-d air already

As a former law enforcement guy I gotta say funding for the IRS nailing tax cheaters gives me unreasonable joy In no way sorry about that

💯 Think about "today + GenAI" is like "the 90s + Excel" Becoming the ninja who could make the latter do whatever folks (especially the CFO) wanted was a golden ticket back then (ask me how I know...) Same will be true for #GenAI today

My maternal grandmother was Lithuanian and I see this I'm donating $1,000 to the Harris -Walz campaign in her name right now

"Both and" - also too, officers who are content to burn their shifts not doing proactive police work thanks to SPD's behind-the-times (and competing departments) waste of sworn officer time on other tasks: seattletimes.com/opinion/seattl…

This is a great thread. I often say "think about being on 'Team Reduce Viral Load'" Things aren't all or nothing - less viral load in the population, in a place, & in any given person can make a real difference...

Now stop wasting taxpayer dollars hand over fist by needlessly making it "co-response" program, thereby burning officer time standing around doing nothing alongside them instead of proactive police work Mayor Bruce Harrell

💯 And here's the 1 weird trick for making the most it: each of us humans is great, mediocre, and crappy at different things The most powerful personal augmentation strategies for #GenAI will embrace, not ignore, that

Cynicism: "LLMs are just next token predictors" Growth Mindset: "I will use this excellent next token predictor to solve my next token prediction problem" 👍