Tag archives for AI
Welcome to post-literacy!
These are excerpts from an NYT “Interesting Times” podcast episode where the guest was the Times of London columnist James Marriott, and the host was Mary Harrington. The full video…
Someone is using Claude to kill software development
A couple of days ago, I nearly fell off my chair when I read Joey Sneddon’s report. Then, Futurism mentioned the news. I expected global hysteria, yet no such thing…
Claude Haiku 5.5: a diligent, dumb workhorse?
As people who follow my blog might know, I fell out of love with Claude at some point, despite it being one of my favorite chatbots for a long time.…
Hugh Howey’s NEO: vibecoding, what else?
Hugh Howey is the author of the Silo Saga (Wool, Shift, and Dust), the science fiction series Silo (Apple TV) is based on. Not such a huge author until Apple…
Now I am even more perplexed!
In my previous post, in a nutshell, I expressed my disappointment with Gemini (especially for coding, but also as an all-purpose chatbot) and, among other things, my surprise that ChatGPT’s…
Gemini is increasingly bad, but ChatGPT surprised me
Using LLMs is as unpredictable as the weather. One day a model seems decent; the next day its next version (or even the same version!) disappoints completely. I keep giving…
LM Studio Bionic: Agentic meh?
The first time I used LM Studio in February 2025, only to realize that it’s absurd to want to run an LLM locally without a proper GPU and enough VRAM.…
Adventures in Linux, September 2026 edition (+Postscript)
Lately, I’ve been unusually quiet regarding the evolutions (or involutions) in the Linux ecosystem. That’s because I am sick of the infantilism that defines everything Linux. Apparently, Linux is still…
Trust AI-generated code. Not.
Ludditus: WordPress search in posts now shows posts sorted probably by relevance instead of showing the most recent first. Can this be changed? Gemini: Yes, this can definitely be changed.…
Changes to Qwen I failed to notice
While using chat.qwen.ai in a browser, I noticed an “Upgrade” button to the right of my username. That means there is now a way to pay for extended chat usage.…
The fake Luis Burgado piano player and violinist
It’s an open secret that AI-generated fake artists are disrupting the music industry, and that the public is stupid enough to enjoy AI-generated music. Things seem, however, to be completely…
Rughiniș nu crede în apocalipsa AI
Spre deosebire de ramolitul de Geoffrey Hinton și de traumatizatul de Jacob Coxon, Răzvan Rughiniș tot nu crede în apocalipsa AI. L-am mai menționat pe excentricul nostru profesor de la…
✍️ LanguageTool alternatives: season finale
I ended my previous post in this series, ✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?, with a half-hearted epilogue that included the discovery of the fact that LanguageTool…
Did AI kill us yet?
I’m so sick of this new hysteria! Our natural stupidity would probably kill us before AI does. But hey, we still have to tackle this sorcerer’s apprentice situation, eh? I…
I’m afraid of Gemini 3.8 Flash!
I didn’t notice that the Flash version had changed from 3.7 to 3.8 when I first asked Gemini a question earlier today. I wasn’t even aware of the announcement: Introducing…
Will Debian succumb to the idiocy of its people?
While I was fighting an unexpected cold (smart people catch colds in summer), I was disappointed by two stupidities regarding the Debian Project. One was some developers’ reaction to the…
✍️ Is there any LanguageTool alternative worth the money?
I started this post about ten days ago and posted an initial version on August 16. Meanwhile, I explored a few other solutions and tested the ones I initially considered…
8 reads on AI and Linux on the Small and Mainstream Web
While I was busy procrastinating and not finishing other tasks, I still had time to pick a few links from the past few days: 4 from Kagi’s Small Web and…
Lumo 2.0 is still Chinese, and Euria is even dumber
I wrote about Lumo in August 2025, then in October, with occasional updates as comments on the respective posts. I repeatedly noted that Lumo used, even if not always, self-hosted…
Siemens: the One Flop or the One Hope for Europe?
Not long ago, ZDF broadcast an 18-minute documentary titled Warum sich Siemens gerade für immer verändert (“Why Siemens is changing forever right now”). Only after I concocted this automated but…