I never use AI to generate content. I prefer my ideas to sound like me, even if that means they take a little longer to write. Apparently that’s becoming a differentiator.
Mark Roddy
@launchit.ai
Fractional VP of Engineering Helping AI and Data Startups at launchit.ai
Why do I need to select a repo to use Claude Code on the web? Often I want to generate code to perform a one off task, and I doubt I’ll need to save it. But maybe I’ll decide to do so when I’m done. So I’d like that flexibility.
Gonna start referring to RLM’s as “Reasonably sized Language Models” and see if anyone notices.
The Claude Code signature is just that it uses newline characters before opening curly braces. That’s it, that’s all you need to look for. I assume at least. Can’t think of any other reason someone would do that.
A friend recently commented on my “unpretentious posting style” on LinkedIn. So heads up that I have a new euphemism for “low effort shit posting”.
Just setup ChatGPT Ads and listed an ad for my consulting business, mainly to see if they're useful. Generally pretty easy to get started, largely because there's only 5% of the configuration options in AdWords. One interesting bit is you target "conversation topics" instead of keywords.
Google AI overviews: great at summarizing topical questions, but regularly giving actively misleading answers to specific questions. All the while crowding out results from another google product that gives the correct answer. I find myself relying on them less and less if I care about the answer.
“Amazon is looking to revamp its AI strategy, shifting from a wide portfolio of models for text, images, video, and multimodal tasks toward a single frontier model.” But it’s gonna hurt their ability to fill the “You might also like” row on the website. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...
Amazon Reportedly Plans to Consolidate Nova AI Models
Amazon reportedly plans to consolidate several Nova AI models. Here’s what the strategy shift could mean for AWS and enterprise AI customers.
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Looking forward to asking ChatGPT Health if it knows about any dopamine seeking behaviors someone with ADHD should avoid. openai.com/index/health...
Launching Health in ChatGPT
Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.
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Get curious about 3D printing again, and dug in to see the state of things. Having done the bare minimum research of watching a few YouTube videos , it seems like the biggest use case for 3D printing is creating storage containers for 3D printing accessories.
tldr - no, models aren't optimizing for pelicans on bicycles. But on the plus side we can now start referring to Goodhart's Law as pelicanmaxxing. dylancastillo.co/posts/pelica...
Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing? – Dylan Castillo
I generated 1,000+ SVGs across 7 frontier models to test whether AI labs are training on Simon Willison’s pelican-riding-a-bicycle benchmark.
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I mean, I guess I did ask it to do "research" for a potential purchase. Wonder if any of the purchases it finds will be reproducable.
So uh, how *do* you restrict a planner agent to just planning? I can keep them on task for a bit, but they always seem to drift back to “doing things” mode, which.... I don't really have the moral high ground to criticize.
Google is working on a new AI chip code named “Frozen”. Another in house chip, so we’ll never get our hands it. You'll just have to… Let it Go. techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/g...
Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient | TechCrunch
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
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Why doesn't Google make a Calendar app for OSX that lets me view all my calendars at once, the way the way I can on the iOS app?
My work calendar suddenly stopped sending reminder emails today. I'm totally flying blind with my meetings, in that I have to look at my actual calendar rather than my inbox.
Not looking forward to the Trading Places remake where the Dukes try to corner the market on frozen concentrated TPUs. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Apparently Github got taken to task (given their availability issues) after offering to send people a copy of their repos on CD-ROM, It's funny the long tail of these kinds of sentiment. But more importantly, who has a CD-ROM drive lying around? www.theregister.com/devops/2026/...
GitHub cuts short offer to burn repos on CD after mockery ensues
A purported jab of Sony's physical media phase-out blows up on GitHub itself
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Solved a Rubik’s cube for the first time! This is my son’s, who challenged me to do it. Though when I looked up strategies online, he declared it cheating. It still took me a day or two even with the help, so I’m having trouble feeling like a cheater 😅
Oh man! There have been so many great products built using Mechanical Turk for manual data processing (labeling, etc). I also know a couple of dissertations that wouldn’t have been possible w/o it. Pour one out for an OG! techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/a...
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch
These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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Apple suing OpenAI for poaching employees AND trade secrets. What do you think: does this happen all the time but it’s rarely caught, or is it kind of rare, and the people doing it just aren’t that… sophisticated?
Apple sues OpenAI over alleged trade secret theft | TechCrunch
Apple alleges the misconduct was directed by OpenAI's senior leadership, including a longtime former employee.
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Breakdown of Grok coding agent server uploads. Sending the entire repo is nuts, but other concerns feel kind of meh. Several complaints of the agent reading files "it was told not to". My brother, you think reading files you told an agent not to is unique to Grok? gist.github.com/cereblab/dc9...
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93)
What xAI Grok Build CLI actually sends to xAI - a wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93) - grok-build-cli-wire-analysis.md
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Conspiracy Theory: In flight Wifi has gotten so cheap (only $8 on my flight yesterday, I remember when it was $40-50), because less people will request refunds when it inevitably shits the bed, like it did on my flight yesterday!
I’m amazed that Apple Face ID consistently works when I’m leaning on my hand and covering half my face, but falls apart when I’m wearing sun glasses.
Summer camp said they had multiple kids with peanut allergies, so I made sure to send my son with the requisite cheese sandwich instead of a PB&J. It wasn’t until Saturday that it occurred to me that the snack I sent everyday was Trail Mix.