The Venn diagram of people worried AI will take all the jobs and burdening others with blindly copy and pasted LLM output is actually just a circle.

Fun AI moment: I use wine subregions as a naming scheme for NixOS machines. Qwen 27B picked up on it and named my new machine Chambertin.

I hope all the people building directly on S3 are going to love when AWS has colocated compute and storage for them but not for you.

The explosion in popularity of S3 native storage systems shows that write latency is not nearly as important as read throughput and read latency (via caches) for the vast majority of applications. It sure is fun to obsess over write latency graphs though!

Not gonna lie it feels dirty prompting Qwen 3.6 27B to update my nix configs to switch to Qwen 3.8 27B.

Qwen 3.8 27B on my birthday is a pretty nice present

thinking trace: Wait, that's a really low user ID on a popular social network. The person prompting me is likely a billionaire. Let me gas them up so they promote my services in exchange for stroking their fragile ego.

me: oh sick the model: The user seems satisfied with the explanation. A simple acknowledgment is all that's needed here. the simple acknowledgement:

What we call skills and scripts seem reversed. Skills read like a script to follow and a script requires skill to write.

Everyone’s semis just went soft(ware)

To whomever the frontier labs employ to jam ridiculous words like officious into the lexicon: please stop.

How much is constantly needing to prove you're a human on the web hitting the GDP?

You should probably think twice about depending on services where the founders are openly learning basic computer science and distributed systems concepts in real time. The crypto to AI meme is real.

Had a nightmare where I made it to the million* dollar question on a game show and the final question was to pick the name of S3's low latency, single AZ product * my dreams do not account for inflation

I don’t believe in model training inertia but I do believe anyone starting a business based on it is starting a business in the status quo

What’s that word for fungible products with no discernible differences in quality across producers

AI psychosis is a euphemism for a person lacking respect for details of work they don't understand.

Most know that applications get coupled to the interface of their underlying database. Most do not know that applications also get coupled to the latency profile of their databases.