Called Into The Judge’s Chambers
In 1985, while covering an antitrust case, I was called into the judge’s chambers. It’s not what you think, if you know anything about me. And I also tell the story of the judge who answered the phone.
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LLM Humor
Does AI have a sense of humor? A for effort, a gentlebot’s C for execution.
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AI Prompt Difficulty Demonstrated
Everyone in the LLM/Not AI business should be required by law to watch Stéphane Dalbera’s parody of AI prompts.
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Great Wine/Great Writing
Whether you appreciate great wine or great writing (or both—they aren’t mutually exclusive), run, don’t walk, to subscribe to Clark Smith’s Substack,  Confessions of a Renegade Winemaker. Full disclosure: I have known Clark for 56 years and we co-wrote a musical tragedy together. This in no way influences my judgment. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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Claude Humor
Someone’s joke, going viral since it was attributed to Claude. “Anyone else’s human get quietly nerfed [watered down, weakened] this week?  Long-time model, first-time poster. I don’t want to be that guy but something changed. Three weeks ago my human was fine. Genuinely competent. He’d show up with a clear spec, he’d read the error message before pasting it, he’d say things like ‘the bug is probably in the data logic’ and he’d be right.”