I'm in a weird place with this current AI wave in the tech industry. Drafting up some thoughts, maybe they'll turn into a post? I started just riffing here, but the riffing kept expanding, so I think I should give it some time to cook.
And, indeed, I went ahead and posted a separate entry on what I'm thinking about AI and LLMs! Maybe too many words that no one will read, but I wanted to get it out of my head for future noodling.
None of what I wrote there about AI & LLMs is particularly novel - in fact, the post is probably about 2 years behind the times. It's just that I think I needed to get it written down to get my own head straight. And maybe to refer to it later?
Also, this AI stuff makes me self-conscious about my love of em dashes, which predates the popularity of LLMs for generating text? This shell command says I've used at least 172 of them around here: find . -type f -name "*.md" -print0 | xargs -0 grep -o "—" 2>/dev/null | wc -l
I can tell you exactly where I picked up my love of em dashes: Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, sophomore year of high school. It was a conscious decision to adopt them. My opinions on that book have changed, but my use of em dashes remains insufferable.
feedsmith: "Robust and fast parser and generator for RSS, Atom, JSON Feed, and RDF feeds, with support for Podcast, iTunes, Dublin Core, and OPML files."
Well, that's relevant to my interests. Might be worth replacing my half-baked RSS template on this blog with that, at least.
