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Francesco Kirchhoff

@francescok

Comedian & Product Manager. Prog metal bass/guitar. Failing to achieve ἀρετή, keeps trying. Program Lead @ Mercedes-Benz.io, ex @MSF, @eHealth_Africa e.a.

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Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) 's Twitter Profile Photo

An NYU professor AI-proofed his assignments. The students complained they were too hard and that “he was interfering with their ‘learning styles.’”

An NYU professor AI-proofed his assignments.

The students complained they were too hard and that “he was interfering with their ‘learning styles.’”
Francesco Kirchhoff (@francescok) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you’re thinking of using OpenAI’s Codex with Ruby on Rails 8, you need a custom setup script (under Environments > (your environment) > Edit > Advanced). Here’s mine, with hat tip to Daniel Tenner: gist.github.com/FrancescoK/74e…

terminally onλine εngineer 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇸 ~ new era (@tekbog) 's Twitter Profile Photo

software engineers afraid of losing their jobs misunderstand their profession and the craft you are supposed to see patterns and solve business problems, do research to make the systems and product better code is means to an end, not the end itself, it never was

Riley Goodside (@goodside) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ChatGPT o3-pro identifies a 1965 quote by I. J. Good hand-written in a mix of print and cursive on a note ripped into four strips in reverse order rotated 90° in alternating directions:

ChatGPT o3-pro identifies a 1965 quote by I. J. Good hand-written in a mix of print and cursive on a note ripped into four strips in reverse order rotated 90° in alternating directions:
Andy Masley (@andymasley) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt. After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading." The reason the expert says this is

Google publishes a paper showing that its AI models only use 0.26 mL of water in data centers per prompt. 

After, this article gets published: "Google says a typical AI prompt only uses 5 drops of water - experts say that's misleading." 

The reason the expert says this is
Asher (@asher5772) 's Twitter Profile Photo

if i had a nickel for every MIT professor who told me GPT5 made a novel research discovery in the past week, i'd have 2 nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's strange that it happened twice

JPA (@2philosophical_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Look, if we remove the slippery slope fallacy from the list of logical fallacies, then before you know it we’ll be removing all the other informal fallacies from the list and will soon forget the very concept of an informal fallacy altogether.

signüll (@signulll) 's Twitter Profile Photo

it’s hard to overstate how deranged the pace is at the moment (even ppl like ilya are amazed by it). we’re in this weird liminal epoch where reality is outpacing people’s priors so fast that most minds just silently segfault. my contrarian take is that we’re inside a cultural

Obie Fernandez (@obie) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Even if current LLM progress hits a brick wall at Opus 4.5 level (and I doubt that will happen) the next 12 months are still going to be a staggering time of change in this industry as decision makers start truly understanding the new reality we live in. obie.medium.com/what-happens-w…

Ethan Mollick (@emollick) 's Twitter Profile Photo

So yes, you are falling behind, but so is everyone else. I can guarantee you that nobody at all is keeping up with the implications of AI and its major uses, even the people who are relatively up-to-date on the latest AI models themselves. Everyone is figuring it out as they go