In some sense, LLMs are making me better at critical thinking. e.g. I must first check this answer to see if it's real or hallucinated. How do I verify this answer? Those are good skills.

And perhaps both are overestimating the mean person's ability to detect a hallucinated solution vs a genuine one.

I think hallucination is grossly overstated as a problem at this point, most models will actively search the web and reason about the results. You're much more likely to get the incorrect solution browsing stack overflow than you are asking AI.

I'm hoping Porsche's profit woes will lead them to making 911 supply less restrictive--especially in the US. New 911s in US trade above sticker price and have long (not Ferrari long), but long waiting lists.

> I spent a good 20 minutes yesterday watching one tie itself in knots trying to write a regex: first in Sed, then in Bash, and finally in Python (six times). By the time I pulled the plug, it had ruined all of the correct files without doing anything to fix the original problem.

If you just need a regex, why are you letting Claude Code run rampant all over your code base? Just use a web gui? Or another terminal?

To me this seems like a classic LLM defense.

A doesn't work. You must frontier model 4.

A works on 4, but B doesn't work on 4. You doing it wrong, you must use frontier model 5.

Ok, now I use 5, A and B work, but C doesn't work. Fool, you must use frontier model 6.

Ok, I'm on 6, but now A is not working as it good as it did on A. Only fools are still trying to do A.

Trust no one, I say. If a doctor prescribes a drug that's only approved in US not the rest of G-7, then maybe take a pass. And yes, FDA is the global leader, but this disarray has caused others to step up--similar to EU being a bit more self sufficient and responsible when it comes to national defense.

You say that and OpenAI is signing compute deals in excess of 20X current revenues.

Good point. Reality is more nuanced than simple overbuilding and underbuilding. Still, we aren't really still building enough housing and mass transit infrastructure.

That may hamper us more than anything else. If AI proves to be as beneficial as its proponents hyped, the economic gains will just mostly get soaked up by landowners. Even UBI won't save us, because it will just get absorbed by landowners. Ditto for renewable energy.

Ukraine sorely misses their nukes.

And why not? Is there any reason for this comment to not appear?

If Bill Gates made a predication about computing, no matter what the predication says, you can bet that 640K memory quote would be mentioned in the comment section (even he didn't actually say that).

becuase

- it's tiresome

- and the only less useful than making predictions is making predictions about predictions.

I think it’s for good reason. I’m a bit at a loss as to why every time this guy rages into the ether of his blog it’s considered newsworthy. Celebrity driven tech news is just so tiresome. Marcus was surpassed by others in the field and now he’s basically a professional heckler on a university payroll. I wish people could just be happy for the success of others instead of fuming about how so and so is a billionaire and they are not.

Which is fortunate, considering how asinine it is in 2026 to expect that none of the items listed will be accomplished in the next 3.9 years.

How does a vector processor of yore compare to SIMD of the late 90s to the current day? Are they two words for the same thing?