stephen ryner jr. 🦉
stephen ryner jr. 🦉I’ve used LLMs to generate a bunch of Python scripts for personal projects (they’re really good at Python for some reason) and it let me tear through a backlog of stuff I’d been avoiding because I frigging hate Python but it’s the best tool for the job sometimes
stephen ryner jr. 🦉I’ve been working more with LLM models recently. It seems like any other tool, but it’s a very slippery footgun. If you know what you’re doing, it might help, but if you’re trusting it outside your domain, damn, things could go bad real fast. I think exceptional developers may get exceptional results, but proceed with caution.
stephen ryner jr. 🦉My biggest annoyance is the “obvious” solution is usually crap. So you look at what got barfed out and say, e.g. “Can you do that without Combine? Use modern Swift,” and it proudly says “Oh yes this, is much cleaner!”
…why didn’t you give the better solution the first time 😩
stephen ryner jr. 🦉I’ve been working more with LLM models recently. It seems like any other tool, but it’s a very slippery footgun. If you know what you’re doing, it might help, but if you’re trusting it outside your domain, damn, things could go bad real fast. I think exceptional developers may get exceptional results, but proceed with caution.
stephen ryner jr. 🦉I had no idea Jim Carrey had such a tough childhood. And success wasn’t easy. He didn’t get what he wanted, again and again, and just kept trying and trying and changing up what he was doing until he finally got the recognition he’d worked so hard for. Impressive!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey
stephen ryner jr. 🦉Please don’t Milkshake Duck Jim Carrey
stephen ryner jr. 🦉I had no idea Jim Carrey had such a tough childhood. And success wasn’t easy. He didn’t get what he wanted, again and again, and just kept trying and trying and changing up what he was doing until he finally got the recognition he’d worked so hard for. Impressive!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Carrey
stephen ryner jr. 🦉“You need to call back on the number on Caller ID because we have no idea what bogus phone number will be attached to this call”
stephen ryner jr. 🦉For those who need to know, Comcast will always be clearly labeled as Comcast and they have an 800 number.
stephen ryner jr. 🦉This scam would be more compelling if I was an actual Comcast customer
stephen ryner jr. 🦉“You need to call back on the number on Caller ID because we have no idea what bogus phone number will be attached to this call”
stephen ryner jr. 🦉This scam would be more compelling if I was an actual Comcast customer
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stephen ryner jr. 🦉It’s very important to use the word “just” when making these kinds of sweeping proclamations. It really drives home your nuanced understanding of all the messy details.
stephen ryner jr. 🦉“The bad news is that despite its new capabilities, Alexa+ is too buggy and unreliable for me to recommend. In my testing, it not only lagged behind ChatGPT’s voice mode and other A.I. voice assistants I’ve tried, but was noticeably worse than the original Alexa at some basic tasks.”
https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/business/alexa-artificial-intelligence-amazon.html
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