Forget five 9's of reliability—when it comes to LLMs, I'd gladly settle for just one 9. Just be correct 90% of the time. That'd be a dream.

GPT 5.2's improved visual analysis is no joke. I took 20 PDFs pertaining to our condo purchase and asked for transcriptions/translations with Codex CLI set to 5.2 (xhigh). What's been produced so far is professional-level quality and 10.5 hours in, it's still cranking on them!

We watched that racing biopic about DHH on Apple TV last night—was pretty good!

A nonzero number of people think it's called "sudo phederine" because it requires admin privileges.

The fundamental misunderstanding behind the question, "why isn't AI eliminating more jobs?" is that the clock on adoption of agents with human-replacement-level capabilities started in April 2025, not Nov 2022. And it started with coders, not paralegals or junior accountants.

How to see the ML-derived keywords for a photo or video in iCloud Photos:

1. Run: brew install RhetTbull/osxphotos/osxphotos
2. In the Photos app, select the image
3. Run: osxphotos query --mute --quiet
   --uuid "$(osxphotos uuid)"
   --print '{label}'

Cool!

I use both Instacart and ChatGPT, and just tried this. It's an absolute joke. Broken. If you can't oneshot a full order, you'll "slip out" of agentic mode and into normal conversation. Total Junk. techcrunch.com/2025/12/08/you-can-buy-your-instacart-groceries-without-leaving-chatgpt/

Whenever I introduce myself as Justin in Japan, there's a 30% chance they'll reply "JASUTEEN BEEBAA" and I'll snap back, "no I am nothing like Justin Bieber."

Or am I? x.com/justinbieber/status/1997125645437194682

Amazing to think that—adjusting for inflation—the entirety of Warner Brothers is worth significantly less than Activision. Call of Duty and Candy Crush matter more than Harry Potter, HBO, DC comics, etc. reuters.com/legal/transactional/netflix-agrees-buy-warner-bros-discoverys-studios-streaming-division-2025-12-05/

Sam should simply ask ChatGPT how to make ChatGPT better techmeme.com/251201/p35

Happy Thanksgiving. This is for you: posseparty.com/

The job of a programmer is to manage exactly two things: uncertainty and complexity.

Code is sometimes an asset and sometimes a liability, but itself has no meaning outside the context of those two factors.

It's time to work out and I realized I left my gym clothes in the laundry machine overnight and they're still damp. For some reason, I refuse to just wear them because—as opposed to being sweaty—they are now "the wrong kind of wet."

I've been daily-driving Codex CLI with GPT-5 since release, because OpenAI's "codex" model was—in my experience—bad at coding.

Well, their new "GPT-5.1-Codex-Max" model absolutely smokes any model OpenAI has put out before. Much higher code quality and 2-3 times as fast.