thoughts on user experience in a nondeterministic world

towards being normal

Last September, I decided to finally give my shot at LLMs for code development. At that point, I had barely used any of the most known LLMs for a serious reason. It's not nine months later, and a lot has changed. With all of the news about Claude 4 and con...

A friend of mine just sent the link to this AI-powered accent guesser from Bold Voice. After trying it out for a few times, it guessed me as either Romanian or Bulgarian, but always with a low confidence. However, a few friends of mine from certain countri...

You’re standing in front of a large box, maybe eight feet on a side. It’s unmarked except for two openings, each about the size of the return slot at the library. One is labeled “INPUT” and the other “OUTPUT.” You’re told that if you write a ...

Yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time. Well, that's not true. Let's rephrase: yesterday I used ChatGPT for the first time to actually help me complete a task. A boring tedious task. It did help me complete the task, but I'm still not very convinced o...

This is going to be a relatively short post, even though many things happened last month. The first three months of 2022 are completed and there's now only 9 to go. That's quite scary. Time flies!