I’ve bumped into a couple of different Reddit discussions where people are sharing their spectacular/frustrating failures with AI agents. Both from the perspective of the “AI expert” and from the companies that hired them.I’m not so shocked at the former. Oil-snake salesmen have existed since forever. It is the latter that surprises me. A few […]
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Why I no longer keep my kids away from AI (sort of)
One and a half years ago, I wrote Why I Keep My Kids Away from AI (For Now) As you can probably guess, things have changed. My convictions, as I wrote back in April 2023 are the same. My concerns are the same. But as we move forward and AI creeps more and more into […]
Workspaice: Human+AI, creating together
Update: workspaice now has its own website. track future updates via www.workspaicehq.com I’ve been working on something exciting that I can’t wait to share with you all. It’s called Workspaice, and it’s been quite a journey bringing this idea to life. I want to tell you about this project, my motivations behind it, and how […]
Solving randomly failing tests in Laravel
This was probably one of the most frustrating issues I’ve dealt in recent times. And finally, after many hours thrown at it, I finally found a solution. The Problem We have a suite of around 700 backend tests in our Laravel application. We use PHPUnit and Paratest to speed up the testing by spawning parallel […]
Journalling is great. But I failed every time I tried.
UPDATE: this project was discontinued I lost track of how many times I started a new daily journal, with or without some special journalling methodology. The benefits of journaling regularly are well-known. Many famous personalities and great people also kept a daily diary of some sort. And I don’t even need convincing, I really do […]
AI minds and the ‘inner loop’
Back in late 2022, I started working on my pet project codenamed ‘Armin’ (for ‘artificial mind’). It was all about creating an AI agent that would have some real mind-like faculties. Mind you, this was pre-chatGPT, so I was using the good old completion models, aka Davinci-003. I did a series of videos on the […]
25 lessons from Rory Sutherland
Stolen from a LinkedIn post. 1. A flower is a weed with an advertising budget. 2. Consumer research is great at telling you what people did, it’s terrible at telling you what people will do. 3. To reach intelligent answers, you often need to ask really dumb questions. 4. Highly targeted advertising merely finds customers: […]
Why I Keep My Kids Away from AI (For Now)
As a tech enthusiast and a parent, I often find myself exploring the intersection of technology, parenting, and education. Artificial intelligence, particularly large language models like the now-famous ChatGPT, has been making headlines for its potential in various applications, including education. While I am an ardent supporter of AI, I believe that we should approach […]
Fact or Myth: playing video games while sick is bad for your kids
A couple of days ago I found an interesting post on my country’s subreddit, where people shared the most common childhood myths they remember growing up with. These were things that our parents, grandparents, and uncles, would say to us to discourage certain things. It was a fun read because I was familiar with most […]
October in Review
October was a “disaster” if I would rate it by the standards I had set in place in September. But I’m giving myself some slack here since lots of things have been going on. I started a new job at a different company, and that, by itself, was a big thing. Well, half because of […]