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Baldur Bjarnason

Web dev at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland

Tagged “tech”

  1. The Elegiac Hindsight of Intelligent Machines
    – 6137 words
  2. Pre-order the hard-cover print edition of Out of the Software Crisis
    – 604 words
  3. Fear Of Missing Out is lethal when somebody invents a footgun
    – 818 words
  4. The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con
    – 5280 words
  5. What's the game?
    – 1379 words
  6. Modern software quality, or why I think using language models for programming is a bad idea
    – 6997 words
  7. Prompts are unsafe, and that means language models are not fit for purpose
    – 1272 words
  8. The truth about the EU AI Act and foundation models, or why you should not rely on ChatGPT summaries for important texts
    – 4458 words
  9. Google Bard is a glorious reinvention of black-hat SEO spam and keyword-stuffing
    – 1336 words
  10. The poisoning of ChatGPT
    – 1233 words
  11. AI code copilots are backwards-facing tools in a novelty-seeking industry
    – 1769 words
  12. Artificial General Intelligence and the bird brains of Silicon Valley
    – 5114 words
  13. Notetaking, Tagged Templates, and How Deno is a Clear Improvement Over Node
    – 1568 words
  14. Generative AI is the tech industry's Hail Mary pass
    – 1214 words
  15. 10x Devs Don't Exist, But 10x Organisations Do
    – 552 words
  16. Tech Companies Are Irrational Pop Cultures
    – 731 words

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