Nah. It sounds like OP is using the tools where they help him instead of for everything regardless of utility.

Which seems like the right way to use tools?

True but on election night you’re just changing things from null to one of two strings.

I’ve spent 17 years in news and it’s not uncommon to operate short term journalistic stuff off a Google sheet or xml file. It’s basically fine.

If you know, you know. Lots of bystander comments in this discussion, finding fault or claiming they’d do it better. Maybe NBC News should be recruiting from here.

And all that is missing the real story, which is how one guy made tech magic happen, and how it feels to be praised for a technical accomplishment when those praising have very little idea what it really took.

Correct.

There's a big fluffy white dog in my neighbhorhood who has a talent for jumping the fence. I've returned him 3 times. This is not hard... once you determine he's friendly and just on an adventure the phone number is on his tag.

He's a good boy.

I guess it depends on the neighborhood but it never occurs to me to get involved in a situation like that, I figure he'll go home when he's hungry.

Talented dog

I would not bother 3rd time.

Not the provider per se, but there have been several documented attempts to rewrite Wikipedia around historical and geopolitical topics. One of the reasons for this is Wikipedia feeds the chatbots.

Fastmail is excellent. They haven’t banned AI but their approach (set up MCP so AI power users can pull in their email data) is a lot more thoughtful and entirely nonintrusive so far.

Correct. The public is over sparkle buttons and bad search results.

The future of AI integrations need to be subtle, useful, and not overpromise but add a big “AI makes mistakes not our fault” label on it.

In cooking, maybe that looks like a discovery tool. It should also be possible to tag the recipe library to link back to videos of techniques. There’s plenty of cool stuff that makes sense without needing to scream “we made it AI!”

Something similar has been going on in Washington, DC, but ours is organic. Someone fires up a “teen takeover” to a popular area, it floods with kids 99% of which are just there to harmless goof off and see their friends, and of course a small group of jerks starts a fight with no regard for the people around them.

The city council is treating this like a curfew issue. The problem isn’t the kids, it’s the algorithm. But nobody seems to have any power to bang on TikTok’s door and tell them to cut it out.

And at the pace OP seems to be going, nobody is pausing for long enough to think about whether the 50 PRs they just YOLO’d even make sense.

That will end well.

I'm not so sure.

I make a point to own my own books. Even if I first read them as ebooks or audiobooks, if I want to keep it forever I'll pick up a used copy (they're cheap).

I've considered the same for film. The only things I looked up that are just completely unavailable are Streaming Original series. Maybe this has to do with the sort of library I'd want to keep, but I don't think so.

Yes. And no person would have suggested this before they were trying to bend over backwards to prove LLMs are just like people.