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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 5h

on top of the fact it's pointless to watch a semblance of an artwork that communicates nothing at all. if you wanted to make art you would be making art

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 5h

I just fundamentally don't get why anyone would want this. if I had good ideas for movies then I would be making movies already. I'm not going to have a good time requesting movies from the slop factory

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 1d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 5h

yeah. pretty good. pretty good

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

in my case I need to evaluate how well a new idea meshes with the rest of the system, and so seeing how to reasonably add it to an interpreter is useful

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

programming is building conceptual models of things ! that's the entire thing !

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

it's possible that part of my aversion to genAI comes from the fact that making little toy versions of things for my own benefit is such a core part of my programming practice that it just weirds me out to abandon the idea of building that sort of understanding of anything

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

probably my most called upon relatively niche skill, just being able to whip up a tiny version of a thing to build and expand my understanding of something and do experiments on it

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

it has been 0 days since I wrote a tiny interpreter to prototype some new database features. you will never regret writing a tiny interpreter

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

seeing the film you all said was brilliant. this better not be an elaborate prank

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 10h

I heard recently than in british english it means "nearly" whereas in u.s. english it means "barely", although personally I have never noticed the latter usage. I do notice americans saying "most" instead of "almost" though

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 15h

ghostty doesn't seem to forget its windows' locations, but it *does* forget their sizes, and I feel like I've discovered a new uncertainty principle

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 15h

even if this stuff worked, the pitch is I'm supposed to drop hundreds of dollars a month to make a machine do something I'm already good at, and not very much faster, which is a terrible deal. but it's necessary for the business model to work, else the economy crashes

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 15h

this stuff is going to cause the most rapid skill extinction in human history

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 15h

"you can teach the agent skills by writing instructions for it to follow" I honest to god thought I was reading a parody on the premise that this is how to convey information to actual people

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 15h

keep seeing blog posts about people writing various markdown files to tell their coding agents how to be good at programming and like... the computer doesn't understand any of those instructions! you could spend that time teaching one (1) junior dev to do all those things and get way more out of it

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[foreign Object] @jcoglan.com · 15h

is that good