🌦️As of today, the southern peninsula is very rain deficit. Interesting summer ahead of us. Some twenty five years ago, when I went to Chennai for college, I was pleasantly surprised to learn that rain-water harvesting was mandatory for every building. Why it is so hard for such good-practices to become popular?
The generative AI is on my mind for last couple of weeks but I don’t want to write to think about it too much. The genie is out of the bottle and we have to deal with it somehow.
Most people think of throughput when they think of AI. IMO, throughput is not a value-add of AI though the limelight is on the throughput. It doesn’t increase throughput without costing you in long-term. I think the real advantage of AI is getting to a higher altitude easily. That also means you should know the questions you need answers to. AI can’t ask good questions. Also see “Do you sill read the code“.
It is now pretty obvious that many (perhaps most) don’t see tech (at least the IT) as inherently good. We have squandered most of the goodwill that our predecessors accumulated.
Software companies needs to see FOSS and community engagement as long-term investment. Unfortunately, not many companies can think beyond a few quarters.
I spend some time on my old FOSS work, without using any AI. I felt a little better. The temptation to use it very strong to use it on boring part but when you touch it, you don’t usually stop there!
Creatine supplements have positive impact on my fatigue levels.
I love dua: I use it to analyze disk usage, and recently they’ve added a feature to clean up temporary files easily. Oh joy!
