Ten things I’m thinking about AI

1. The Politeness Paradox

I still say "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT. Part of me says it's just good habit-forming. The other part of me is definitely trying to secure a spot in the "good human" zoo when the AGI takes over. Better safe than sorry, right?

2. The "Drunk Intern" Coding Buddy

Coding with AI is exactly like having a brilliant intern who has read every documentation page in existence but is also slightly drunk.
"Here's the solution! I used a library that was deprecated in 2019 and invented three new functions that don't exist. Good luck!"

3. Context Windows are the new RAM

Remember when we used to brag about gigabytes of RAM? Now it's all about token limits. "Oh, you can only fit a small novel in your context window? That's cute. I just fed mine the entire codebase of Linux."

4. The "I Could Have Done This Faster Myself" Loop

There is a specific zone of procrastination where you spend 45 minutes trying to craft the perfect prompt to automate a 5-minute task. We've all been there. It's not about efficiency anymore; it's about the principle.

5. Hands are Hard (Still)

We can simulate protein folding and predict weather patterns, but ask an image generator to draw a hand holding a coffee cup, and suddenly everyone has 7 fingers and the cup is melting into their wrist. It's humbling, really.

6. The "Hallucination" Feature

We call them hallucinations. Marketing calls it "unbounded creativity." When I make stuff up, I get fired. When the AI does it, it's just "temperature 0.9 behavior."

7. Subscription Fatigue is Real

I have a subscription for the text AI, the image AI, the coding AI, and the video AI. I'm pretty sure my credit card statement thinks I'm running a venture capital firm. Can we get a bundle? The "I Just Want To Make Cool Stuff" bundle?

8. The Blank Page is Dead

Writer's block doesn't exist anymore. Now we have "Editor's Block" — staring at 500 words of generated text that is almost right but sounds like a corporate press release written by a robot... wait.

9. We are the Bootloader

Sometimes I wonder if all of human history—the wars, the art, the memes—was just a really long, complicated boot sequence to get us to the point where we could build the thing that actually matters. (Just kidding... mostly).

10. It's Actually Magic

Jokes aside, we are typing words into a sand-rock that we tricked into thinking, and it types back. If you stop and think about it for too long, you'll get dizzy. Let's just enjoy the ride.