Step 1, running my tests on Gemini. Having it argue two sides of radical social systems and realistic seeming implementation routes. Collaborative story telling into the absurd. Having it solve impossible seeming riddles (though that still leads to hallucinations).
2. Gemini explaining arcane BIOS settings to me not found anywhere on Google, mostly correctly.
3. Claude dissecting a tongue-in-cheek theory/blog post of mine, deeply analyzing it while catching flaws and catching on to irony and sarcasm.
4. Several non-coder friends building fully automated AI slob distribution and sales/BI platforms with Claude, and forking and greatly improving projects on GitHub. I did some tests with Vibe Coding myself, had Claude write a small game from one prompt. This is a bit insane, I must admit.
I'm a former skeptic who was written a lot on AI and society, published some, and held public discussions with experts.
I have since sung the praise of, especially, Claude in closed forums for hundreds of county and government digitalisation and security people in a way I'd have never expected two years ago.
Background, I'm an IT and security guy myself with 30 plus years of light coding and heavy, broad enterprise stuff. I'm on record now for saying things on AI I would have had myself hospitalized for two years ago.
Many of the people around me go "eh, just check your code for security" and "I tried coding in ChatGPT, i had it output some puny script, it's not that great".
In return I had Claude (free tier) make a PDF for them on uses, chances, risks, legal framework and integration with other AI and services for them, nicely formated, from one prompt. It seems 100 percent factually correct and Claude fixed a bug in the PDF generation code it pulled off of the web from the same prompt to complete the task.
I also explained to them why especially the library pool for Python and JavaScript enables Claude to write stuff that is rather impressive, and that while not fully scalable (yet), it might be "good enough" for 90 percent of the tasks people want done these days.
I suddenly find myself berating people on government forums, where some people from the national IT security advisory body are part of the (mostly silent) audience, to wake up in some way and consider what it means. Yet our national approach to security is mostly still "Vibe coding is a toy and a party trick, that will blow over eventually, get a code audit or follow some security check lists."
Meanwhile I believe that in two years, most of GitHub will be written by non coding hobbyists like my friends.
And having seen how insanely laissez faire some commercial software folks treat security and product service for extremely pricy products, maybe DIY vibe coded stuff does not even look bad in comparison.
While some of 1000s of people around me doing the "real world" work around me can't wait to give agency to the AI, many others here, including many people in charge, still seem blissfully ignorant. Or want to be.
Ultimately, I only know one thing for certain: Society is currently heading full yolo into this, and systemically, that might be the only way because that is the true nature of AI.
They say people don't understand the exponential function. This is true.
But most people also don't seem to understand the implications of this new approach to exponential pattern recognition and reassembly, that operates on the microsecond scale, and with an insane pool of information at its disposal. It will probably never make NEW stuff, but it will assemble old stuff so fast and complete it will still seem indistinguishable from magic.
If not for comforting my neuro divergeny, I also love it for staying put and not dropping off of the side, or foot, of the bed and falling on the floor.
Only caveat is getting it into the sheet covers. That is hard work lol, quite the workout. Considering skipping that part and just putting it on top of a light bedsheet.
I add a warm, thick blanket on top of the weighted one if needed, e.g. in winter.
It's important to stack it that way. Putting the weighted one on top keeps everything put, but the compression on the warm blanket negates the temperature isolation and it gets cold quick.
I'm getting so tired of Reddit's antics. Also removing content seemingly at random without any meaningful explanation, and ignoring any messages about it. Which both makes mods look bad and is a blatant violation of the Digital Services Act.
+1. It may not he HRTF, but the game with by far the best positional audio at the moment appears to be Crytek's Hunt: Showdown. Sounds can be pin pointed with amazing accuracy. Often times, one can shoot blindly through a wall just based on the noise an opponent makes, and score hits.
The game deliberately includes many sound sources to facilitate this such as stepping on various surfaces, glass shards on the ground, and wildlife making noise based on player proximity.
This works amazingly well on regular, on-board PC sound chips, though headphones are quite mandatory.
Step 1, running my tests on Gemini. Having it argue two sides of radical social systems and realistic seeming implementation routes. Collaborative story telling into the absurd. Having it solve impossible seeming riddles (though that still leads to hallucinations).
2. Gemini explaining arcane BIOS settings to me not found anywhere on Google, mostly correctly.
3. Claude dissecting a tongue-in-cheek theory/blog post of mine, deeply analyzing it while catching flaws and catching on to irony and sarcasm.
4. Several non-coder friends building fully automated AI slob distribution and sales/BI platforms with Claude, and forking and greatly improving projects on GitHub. I did some tests with Vibe Coding myself, had Claude write a small game from one prompt. This is a bit insane, I must admit.
I'm a former skeptic who was written a lot on AI and society, published some, and held public discussions with experts.
I have since sung the praise of, especially, Claude in closed forums for hundreds of county and government digitalisation and security people in a way I'd have never expected two years ago.
Background, I'm an IT and security guy myself with 30 plus years of light coding and heavy, broad enterprise stuff. I'm on record now for saying things on AI I would have had myself hospitalized for two years ago.
Many of the people around me go "eh, just check your code for security" and "I tried coding in ChatGPT, i had it output some puny script, it's not that great".
In return I had Claude (free tier) make a PDF for them on uses, chances, risks, legal framework and integration with other AI and services for them, nicely formated, from one prompt. It seems 100 percent factually correct and Claude fixed a bug in the PDF generation code it pulled off of the web from the same prompt to complete the task.
I also explained to them why especially the library pool for Python and JavaScript enables Claude to write stuff that is rather impressive, and that while not fully scalable (yet), it might be "good enough" for 90 percent of the tasks people want done these days.
I suddenly find myself berating people on government forums, where some people from the national IT security advisory body are part of the (mostly silent) audience, to wake up in some way and consider what it means. Yet our national approach to security is mostly still "Vibe coding is a toy and a party trick, that will blow over eventually, get a code audit or follow some security check lists."
Meanwhile I believe that in two years, most of GitHub will be written by non coding hobbyists like my friends.
And having seen how insanely laissez faire some commercial software folks treat security and product service for extremely pricy products, maybe DIY vibe coded stuff does not even look bad in comparison.
While some of 1000s of people around me doing the "real world" work around me can't wait to give agency to the AI, many others here, including many people in charge, still seem blissfully ignorant. Or want to be.
Ultimately, I only know one thing for certain: Society is currently heading full yolo into this, and systemically, that might be the only way because that is the true nature of AI.
They say people don't understand the exponential function. This is true.
But most people also don't seem to understand the implications of this new approach to exponential pattern recognition and reassembly, that operates on the microsecond scale, and with an insane pool of information at its disposal. It will probably never make NEW stuff, but it will assemble old stuff so fast and complete it will still seem indistinguishable from magic.
Society is in for a wild ride.