Marin Todorov
Sr Software Engineer at Apple, currently WTE Developer Tools, previously Swift DocC. All the info at http://underplot.com
TIL: "Cognitive Surrender" the inability to force oneself verify the correctness of LLM outputs
All I can say from reading the news today is that the EU seems to be completely brain dead. We've failed to react to anything happening in the world or in our own territory. Not in a meaningful way, just any reaction at all. It's mind boggling
Finally had a moment to play again with super magnification - this is a photo of a coffee cup I made. What you see is a hair-deep slice of the glazing. You see the cracks in the glaze and the particles mixed in it before firing #SilentSunday
Wrapping up two week family vacation... folks, is character- by- character programming still a thing? Just trying to set up my expectations for Monday 🧐 💻 🦖
Me randomly watching Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the first time since seeing it in the cinema 25 years ago:
"yes, YES, do it - walk into yet another room covered in beautiful calligraphy!! Stop fighting and get out of the frame, let the camera pan over the cursive works on the wall. Oh yeah"
Randomly found this one neatly packed away. We shipped these ones in advance to each location and handed them to everyone coming in 👕👚 that was good times #realmworldtour
Each time I go out of the house I think how lucky we are to be here 🤞🏽 that we can stay for a while
Tldr: still just a tool, if your org is bad to start it'll just get worse with AI
Folks, blindly sharing around anthropic's statement isn't the flex you think it is. Read the text: they do confirm that they support using AI for mass surveillance just not exactly in the way they are being asked today.
"Meta said its AI tool has privacy safeguards" - I had to laugh loudly on my commute this morning 😂
Thinking very hard how a million middle managers focused on their yearly bonus deliberately killed germany's car industry🤷🏽♂️ https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives
What an article, give it a go 👍🏼
Spam used to be a high art, people used to craft these fantastical stories about Mr So and So who after life of entrepreneurship in distant and exotic lands passed without a heir and you have the chance to help get a very specific large sum out of his bank just so you panic and click on stuff and be stupid on the Internet ... those were the days ... this, today, it's just lazy, this is what we've become:
Definitely not a bubble 🫧 💵
We will be going to Italy soon and making a stop in Verona so naturally I bought a Romeo & Juliet comic book to read together with my daughter and prep for the trip 🥹
I can't believe the take of the ai propaganda on the cc leak is that it doesn't matter bcz anthropic's valuation is high. I mean they're not wrong but still feels gross to shout it from the rooftops 🙄
📢 AUDIBLE.COM : after not being able to get Audible's billing issues resolved for a month, or reach out a support person I'm putting this feeler out again - anyone who could put me through to talk DIRECTLY to someone at Audible who can assist with suddenly them not being able to charge my card and ending my subscription? lmk in DM please