tek’s weekend warriors: 3.3.26

“..it only took a weekend..” Suddenly, since December, a hashtag turns to a meme — meme-coding… vibe code an app, or a library over your weekend. the hack is back. ez enough for your ceo.

it seems folks are, again, trying to make something with less effort, offering proof of the improvement by publishing the cost to code. the gavel has fallen .. when the cost is zero, what comes next ?

do you take extra big gulps of air; why not, it’s free .

“… Tenzai found that applications built by five major AI coding agents — including Cursor, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Replit, and Devin — all contained significant vulnerabilities. The agents performed well on well-known vulnerability classes like SQL injection and cross-site scripting, but poorly on authorization logic and business logic..”

“– Silicon Valley is reporting for duty. No longer do we regard the military complex as destructive. It isn’t even complex. Just do it, quickly. Toss out the mistakes, or, perhaps leave it to the next round to cleanup. The Valley Brain is the new brain. The new MAN wears green. A willing warrior class of millionaires.

ooh, teach me how. let me play. when do I get my tattoo.

The initial cohort of this program will include the CTOs of Meta and Palantir, Andrew Bosworth and Shyam Sankar, respectively, as originally reported by The Wall Street Journal. It will also include OpenAI executives Kevin Weil, chief product officer, and Bob McGrew, chief research officer. This evening I will become an officer in US Army Reserve as part of Detachment 201, the Army’s Executive Innovation Corps,”

When the Nerd Reich marches into battle, it will be in a bunker behind a paywall. Say hello to the new fortunate son.

—–

Dr. Dobbs era, Hackers were coders without a license .. saw a need so built something to reveal a gap; to start the Pearl . Hackers also began with internal commitment . Dobb’s was a small mimeo publication in the days of smaller than small publications. A time of mail art. A time of flux among the commons. Intermixing of Snow’s culture.

Snow’s cultures

The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution, the lecture argued that the breakdown of communication between the “two cultures” of modern society – the sciences and the humanities – was a major hindrance to solving the world’s problems. 

Have we seen this before? Everyone a programmer. Problem with your business, with your life… do something fast, before your competitor does.

just in, Knuth paper re Claude successful solution

winterizing AI

Since last November I have been aggressively reading about and testing AI systems in familiar topics. in the months since November I’ve read ,on average, seven articles a day … These have resulted in several static pages along with a dozen draft posts ..time for a marker..

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.H.P. Lovecraft – The Call of Cthulhu

THIS

the types of queries i’ve posed are about details of silicon valley as business and social model. additionally, i have asked for code snippets. these they provide readily… even being able to translate cross languges, with one suprising failure: mistaking dartmouth basic as the DART language.

none of the models correctly answered chem questions from this bank of texts.

photochem old standard:

  • Glafkides, P., “Photographic Chemistry”, 
  • James, T. H., “The Theory Of The Photographic Process”, 
  • Neblette, C.B., “Photography:Its Principles And Practices”,
  • Nietz, A. H., “The Theory of Development”,
  • The Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. 3rd edition and 4th edition. Volume #6, Color photography
  • Haist ”Modem Photographic Processing” 

software engineers have been able to engineer an assistant . And it delivers conversation as though it were in a Sand Hill meeting . The enthusiasm amongst the programming and SWE community is increasingly joyous … they will be able to eliminate low level jobs .. They also Believe they will be able to eliminate all of those jobs that they never understood and never liked .. HR and marketing ..

it can code because the compiler error checks .. those fields without intermediate verification systems are subject to failure of vocabulary — it sounds good..

AI is right now the child of Silicon Valley– The silicon valley of the internet age — electrons on clouds. Fantasy of the 40s …

The avalanche has occurred … clawbots drive mac mini sales… 3 weeks agp the claw popped onto swe dashboatds.

AI winter watch: 11.25 -> 2.26

Continue reading “winterizing AI”