Random Thoughts
AI
There's a lot of concern about AI taking over jobs. It's true that the barrier to entry for a lot of profession is getting smaller. I've been able to pick up a lot of new projects quickly with the assistance of AI. But we will always need workers, people that can learn quickly or even specialize on a task. AI is a mean of training an unskilled worker into a skilled on. If the hat you're wearing is no longer useful, you can wear a new hat.
AI can teach you how to do something, but it can't do things for you. At least not yet. It provides a wealth of information, but because AI can hallucinate and only operates on written information publicly available and is not actually going through the process of trial and error to know what works or not in execution. A human needs to be above the AI to integrate suggestions made by AI. As well as to provide push back if a suggestion is invalid, dangerous, or wrong.
Calories
I want to start recording calory information in its own page, but will start here.
- Nature's Bakery Fig Bar: 200 Calories
Copyrights
This is a big topic. I do want to do a big dive on it eventually. I heard lately the music industry is suing AI companies for training on song lyrics. Kind of assume that is public because they're so easy to get. Apparently, it's infringement if you post the entire or even partial lyrics. The legitimate website that posts lyrics get licenses for whatever they post. Eventually, I want to go through those sites, find my favorites and link back to them.
"Job Security"
The term peeves me. I feel like every time it is used, it is a joke. I recently saw a YouTube skit where there was a lead developer and no one else knew how to manage the code base. That's terrible; it's no way to operate. In a real scenario, a developer that writes code unmanageable by others will struggle in the future to manage their own code. It's not a philosophy to live by. Also no one wants to be force to do the same task because no one else can do it. We should strive to create something that others an maintain. Developers can then start fresh and dive into something new and interesting instead of being tied down.
Overload
When faced with an overwhelming amount of things to do. The only thing you can do is make a list, decide what you're doing now and make it a priority to do it.
Recordings
I've been starting to record myself reading books to my children. I'm planning on slicing them into sound bites that I can use in future videos. That's not a high priority project though. Till then, just going to build up on recordings. Google Recorder is the associated app. You can access it on the web on your desktop or as an app on your mobile device. You can duplicate and slice audio recordings directly on the app.
X
I have accepted X as its own entity instead of having to include "formally known as Twitter". I hesitated and resisted but I think the addition of Grok and xAI allowed me to accept that X is no longer Twitter and that X is its own thing.