Ira Greenberg

@iragreenberg.bsky.social

Artist/Professor/Director SMU, EmProps Co-founder, Processing Author, BrainDrops, BrightMoments, Verse, Feral File, https://linktr.ee/iragreenberg

One of the very worst myths in western civilization is the desire for retirement. It would be much healthier (for the individual and society) to consider lifespan as a state of continuous engagements and growth.

In the last few months boundaries between creative practice, engineering and entrepreneurship have all but disappeared for me. If coding originally presented me with a multidimensional paintbrush, AI is unlocking an ultra-dimensional wand.

Building software now (w AI) feels like playing old text adventure games (e.g., Zork). Sitting at a coffee shop, people watching me from a distance probably think I'm gaming, as I'm so completley caught up in the drama of this emergent, unfolding adventure. Creative coding is now fully realized!

Gearing up for an an insanely ambitious project developing an open source, modular agentic platform, combining tons of frameworks. The goal is both to learn the complete stack and hopefully create something useful. There is no bigger dopamine spike for me than complex learning curves.

1/ ProtoByte.ts notes: Interactive squareSphere implementation. The form is based on a cube that may be subdivided to approximate a sphere. Internal structural supports help the form return to its original state after deformation.

1/ Before AI went mainstream, I championed the idea of 'Artificial Stupidity' (AS) as a far more intriguing concept. In recent years, I’ve gotten swept up in the AI hype and continue to embrace it with passion, but I find myself musing again about AS.

1/ ProtoByte.ts notes: Working with an AI IDE, I don't need to manually implement things like Quaternions, Euler rotations , world/local transforms, collision detection, advanced 3D mouse picking, etc, but I DO need to help the AI know when and how to best utilize these things.

1/ Great day coding with the AI: Our end of session convo: me: so all working, run, build and build:fxhash Thanks for all the help. Now I will get on my bike and ride!!!!! You should do something fun as well

Today, I asked the new ChatGPT o1 about where I could purchase a newer L1 coin (one getting a fair amount of buzz). It's answer was perhaps the most honest, complete and succinct I've ever received from an AI: 'I don't know'

Engagement here with just 210 followers already has begun to exceed my 5.5K on X. Not sure if this acronym already exists, but if not, let's originate it here: LFKG!!!!! (Let's F'n Keep Going!)