Reply to: https://substack.com/profile/40247471-andre/note/c-320822257 APIs are already polite ways to interact with other programmers, I don’t see why that should be reinvented. My interactions are through the chat interfaces, CLI coding interfaces, however recently I’ve preferred not to interact with AI at all. I …

I was thinking about how, in Marathi, you don’t really need to say please and thank you constantly. You can walk into a shop, ask for something, pay, and leave without even a “bye” or “have a good day,” and it isn’t rude. If you do use those phrases, people may look at you funny. The same interaction with a …

Over on the Protocol Insitute chat rafa. asked how one would give a robot a personality. My opinion is you don’t: Does a robot need to be given a personality or is personality something we use as a convenient shorthand? With motorcycles I’ve regularly assumed each has some personality or the other owing to their …

Sing and Sing 2 are wonderful movies. Don’t know how I missed them for so long 🐨

Now: Clearing through the last heavy Claude fatigue to start exploring local models with designed workflows. Knowledge graphs were last year… next 18mo are gonna be neurosymbolic for me. Partly because AI seems to be plateauing and partly because AI as proto-positronic brain for narrow task machines seems …