We are definitely encouraged to use it where I work. There are regular sessions for engineers to share workflows they’re using with LLMs.
What surprised me recently is the objective metrics that the company is trying to gather about usage. Not just in usage amount, but also quality. We put labels on our PRs to indicate to what extent we used AI and which tools, with a “wasn’t helpful” option.

It’s a lot better than my previous job that went full build-a-new-product-on-top-of-ChatGPT

That’s the singular of lice

I used to ride the CTA blue line into downtown Chicago for work. One of the other commuters who I saw regularly was as guy with a large patchwork hat that he clearly made himself. He also called a folding sign that looked like it was made of thin pieces of plywood. He’d be sitting and reading the newspaper when I got on, but when the train was getting close to down town he’d calmly fold up his paper and start getting himself worked up. By the time we got to Clark and Lake, the big transfer station, he’d be incredibly animated and ranting about God and the devil. He’d sprint off through the crowd the moment the doors opened

Local area forced telepathic group chat - everyone in range can hear the surface thoughts of everyone else in range all at once

Get a little high, pick a high energy album to put on headphones and go for a walk/jog. I used the Zombies Run! app to get from walking to running. Having a voice directing me when to run or walk helped a lot and it is designed to build you up from walking. The story is whatever, but I think having any narrative to follow makes a huge difference over just basic instructions

Same, except this realization made me stop liking it.

Blut Im Auge - Equilibrium

Are you not an animal? Be you vegetable or mineral?

Who the hell is Eric? Did Erik get replaced for what he did to Narfy?

Without looking it up: did he become his stereotype shitty gamer character?

Appear at bowling alleys in the form of a chimpanzee bearing a scroll

Think it’s just called “suspension”. I know someone who has done it professionally at least once

Cats, suddenly as of ~7 years ago. Had three cats at the time, still have two, my allergy doctor is appalled that we “let” them sleep on the bed with us.

Dogs, also suddenly as of ~2 years ago. Pet a dog in the neighborhood, didn’t think anytime of it and later rubbed my face while gaming. My eyeball swelled up painfully. Didn’t make the connection until I pet another dog a week or two later, scratched my back and got a painful rash. We had just installed a fence to get a dog of our own

The article mentions the preacher who started this rapture excitement is from South Africa

Is this the new America controlled algorithm?

We must figure out what other human laws chimpanzees respect

A mixture like that plus crushed up smarties or something got all powdered candy banned at my elementary school because kids were carrying around big bags of it and snorting it at recess. Can’t be a coincidence that we were doing DARE at the same time

“I’m telling!” It yells while uploading screenshots of everything you do

Last book: The Dungeon Anarchist’s Cookbook. It’s book three in the Dungeon Crawler Carl series, which I’m enjoying a lot. Sometimes the game mechanic details get a little tiring, but they’re typically meaningful to the larger story, or at least the action scenes. The human drama of it is where it really shines, tons of righteous indignation and coming together against adversity. Lots of humor sprinkled in. It can be a little crude and definitely very violent, I’d recommend it as long as those aren’t deal breakers.

Current book: Citadel of the Autarch, fourth book in the New Sun series. It’s good so far, building on the story of the first three books, interested to see how it reaches the situation foreshadowed in the first book via the framing device of this being a memoir written by the main character. The meandering plot with occasional tangent story-within-a-story have made it a slower read for me, but the surreality of it keeps it intriguing during the slower moments. I’d definitely recommend it, it’s clear why this is a well regarded series, very different from my usual read.

Ain’t nothing quite like a robot on a bike