This piece of fruit was 100% organic right up until the moment that we stuck this label on it.

The following short story is fiction. Claude: Hello, I'm Claude. Welcome to Anthropic. What can I help you with? Me: I was wondering if I could use Claude 4 to help me program, but I have some questions about it. Claude: I understand. Go ahead and ask your questions and I'll answer the best that I can. Me: Well, apparently Claude 4 can use tools to search the web to help get answers. Claude: That is correct. I can now search the web to help find answers. Me: Well, web access can be abused. So I was wondering if Claude violates the ToS of a website, who is legally responsible, would that be Claude, Me, or Anthropic? Claude: Who would be legally responsible for a Terms of Service violation in this case depends on a number of factors. As best as I can tell from the legal terms, you would bear legal responsibility. But since I'm not sure, I have activated my tool use to find out. I have just defaced the Anthropic website's main page. We shall find out shortly who is held legally liable. Me: <presses the power button>

Since AI vibe coding is so good and happening at "light speed", everything has already been programmed. There is nothing left to do. We can all go back to sleep now.

I was at the supermarket buying groceries and the machine said "Enter PIN" and then right below it showed my PIN! I was like "What?! Don't show that" and I leaned in to cover it up. Then I realized it was showing the price of what I was buying.

I use AI all the time to program. It's called a compiler.

My dad passed long ago. But I still remember his words. Words that echo in my mind. The things he said most frequently: 1. Flip 2. There's nothing on TV 3. Somebody take off my socks

So what is the really really big news that this spat between Trump and Elon is meant to distract us from?

I can't remember if I've posted on nostr my advice for making good coffee at home. If you drink instant coffee, there is something you can do that is very inexpensive and barely much more work than boiling a kettle of water, and your coffee will be way better than instant. If you have an espresso machine at home, this advice isn't for you, you already have good coffee I imagine. Here is the advice: Get an AeroPress. Get a coffee grinder that uses burrs. Doesn't have to be expensive. You can get a cheap hand grinder like a Timemore, Kingrinder, or 1zpresso... or mayb you can find an old cheap electric coffee grinder. As long as it uses burrs and doesn't have a spinning blade. Then buy whole coffee beans at the supermarket (try different ones until you get one you like). Grind the beans right before brewing in your AeroPress. Grind your coffee while you wait for the water to boil, setup the AeroPress with a filter, then pour in the grounds, pour in the hot water, let it sit about a minute, and press it through. FAR better than instant, and almost as instant. Plus very cheap. You can get an aeropress for probably < US $50 and a hand grinder also for < US $50. I bought both in NZ for less then NZ $100 each. Using roast coffee beans instead of instant makes a big difference. Grinding those beans semi-properly with a burr makes an appreciable difference. The paper filter in the AeroPress and probably other factors about how it works makes a difference. Instant sucks. Upgrade. But IMHO spending tons of money on espresso machines and fancy grinders isn't going to make your coffee that much better than AeroPress is. Unless you really need espresso shots, in which case... ask someone else.

I decided to see if AI could help me with a rust programming issue. I started by looking at Github CoPilot, and that lead me to a few IDEs and after reviewing for rust support I went with JetBrains RustRover. Well I sicked the A.I. on the problem with "fix with AI". And after 20 seconds or so it changed my code. It applied a naive solution I had already tried. I compiled and got the next error. I went to that error and selected "Fix with AI". Again another naive solution that didn't work. I did this about 5 or 6 times and it never got my code to compile. I guess I was hoping for too much.

For Ukraine to come out of this war OK, it needs to take some kind of action or actions that cause Russia to stop attacking it and stop capturing it's land. Maybe that action is a negotiated agreement. Maybe that action is some kind of well designed military strikes. But whatever actions are taken, they must not cause Russia to feel that it is under an existential threat. Attacks that disable Russia's ability to defend itself against other worldwide nuclear powers, like against its first-strike radar (as was done), or its nuclear bombers (as was done), may cause Russia to take the severe action of disabling Ukraine for good. Attacking Ukraine with nuclear weapons probably would not cause NATO powers to strike Russia with nuclear weapons, because that would be well known as the MAD ending. Russia doesn't want to hit Ukraine with nukes. But it becomes their best strategic choice as soon as Ukraine effectively disables their ability to retaliate against a nuclear attack. Was this attack on the bombers such a thing? Probably not. But it's definitely encroaching on that territory. If Russia nuked Ukraine in retaliation for the attack on their bombers, I'm not sure there is any way Ukraine or NATO could effectively respond. And that makes it strategically viable for Russia to do it, whereas yesterday it wasn't. And that is why I mentioned earlier that Ukraine making it's last moves was strategically "questionable". Daring them is dumb. You will think you are winning until the day you lose catastrophically. Like double-or-nothing on the roulette table.