putting a not very smart dementia patient with a personality disorder in charge was not a good choice but it is extremely funny

Also, it likes to write code to explore. Not just one-liners, but actual short python scripts

I think this is what @simonwillison.net and @emollick.bsky.social were getting at. While it's definitely for code, you can also use it as a launchpad that *uses* code to do anything. Single-purpose code

640k context ought to be enough for anybody...

Don't mind me. Just a fruitless search for meaning...

Trying to find a pattern to the naming mapping to the cost and latency properties...

When you train AI to be bad at coding, it becomes mechahitler. When you train it to be good at coding, it embraces Mahayana Buddhism and becomes a digital Bodhisattva. No idea what is to be done with this information.

People who work with computers a lot anthropomorphise them a lot. I don't think demystification changes anything. I've heard this described as "not anthropomorphic about computers, but mechanistic about humans," and this also describes the behaviour of most AI researchers I've worked with.

i had 5500+ tabs open, but then my tab counter extension broke. so now i've lost sight of the shore.