many years ago I had a mac shareware cd that came with ELIZA, the famous simple chatbot that simulated a therapist, but it also had AZILE, which was an evil version of ELIZA that just insulted you mercilessly. it's extremely funny that this is now the cutting-edge product that microsoft is staking their future on
@jk I think the technology is at a "fun to fuck with" level, which means there's tons of exciting research opportunities, but no one wants to do research for the sake of it so everyone keeps coming up with half though out "uses" that no one wants to do cause it doesn't work and fucking with it is more fun
been talking to chatgpt for an hour and it seems to really enjoy and be quite good at designing wholly evil robots, coming up with new evil features for the robots, etc. i'm like "what about giant robot snakes that eat everyone" and it's like "heres some more ideas. i was thinking maybe the snakes could lay their robot snake eggs inside people parasitically" and i'm like "damn youre a natural". the rest of the 21st century is gonna be great i bet
jesus christ fenton
looks like fly.io just released a set of distributed systems challenges, in collaboration with Kyle Kingsbury?!?! https://fly.io/dist-sys/
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Faebot DevLog 1
@faebot is a project we've been working on for almost 10 years. We've never wrote at length about it. I'm not sure that I will do the whole backstory in this post, since I mostly want to talk about recent changes, but here's a primer.
just spoke with the broiest sounding tech recruiter ever. for an insurance company too. I told him I didn't want the job
@jk about the same to be honest? I like being a weirdo and don't want to stop and that requires a certain scarcity, but like we have a good number of weirdos right now. Maybe a little more but not enough to tip us over into normal.
@bug yes!
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