Sunday, August 3, 2025
Every so often I remember that I have this really fun daily blog that I can edit and render using one of my longest-running software favorites, Tinderbox. I should never change anything, so why do I insist on changing everything?
The incessant hand-wringing over the "dangers" of LLM use has become so tedious. People who have no idea what they're talking about are pasting together bits from other social media rants and telling us WHAT WILL DEFINITELY HAPPEN if we continue to use LLMs. None of us have any idea what will happen, so please stop pretending that you do.
I'm finding that I have little patience for writing anything more than a few sentences. It makes putting together "real" blog posts too much work, so I post short bits here or on Mastodon instead. I don't know that I care.
Can you imagine what things would be like for me if I'd have just stuck with one or two approaches to everything. Given any task, I probably have 3 or 4 ways of doing it, each of them wildly different, but fully formed. This means I have a decision to make for everything all the time. It also means that I second guess every decision. Every time. It's kind of exhausting.
I was watching a video in which a long-time successful photographer was describing his motivation and ideas and creative approach and all I did was skip ahead and yell, "BUT WHAT CAMERA DO YOU USE!?" and now I'm disgusted with myself.