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At the large insurance company I'm doing some work for the big capability gains have yet to materialize. There are some pockets of workflow innovation but big institutions can carry a kind of inertia and are slow to adapt.

But as the organization slowly learns and adapts I'm sure the capability gains will materialize.

Using AI to process meeting transcripts opens up some useful scenarios such as knowledge capture - tacit, detailed instructional, planning and work break down, etc.

Creating documentation in this way encourages meeting discipline, speaking clearly for the AI, use of 'verbal bookmarks', detailed and robust prompting habits.

Sure, as author points out: be careful, but on the whole I reckon that this sort of use for AI in organizations is currently one of the most effective uses of this technology.

Watching kids TV

Maybe restrict Show HN posts to 70 or 100 characters - readers can then scan many, and quickly find stuff of interest.

The clarity and focus this discipline would enforce could have a pleasant side effect of enabling a kind of natural evolution of categorizations, and alternative discovery UIs.

Great job and thank you, I will be using this. I already love to use my phone camera, it's nice to have a glitch option.

There certainly are arenas where LLM writing provokes adverse reactions, and in general I think people are becoming less tolerant of it.

Personally, I often find the smell of AI annoying, but I don't mind the way you used it in this article, and after all, there are some good use cases for AI writing.

I assume it will become easier and commonplace to configure LLMs to produce 'de-ragebatified' writing styles.

Pretty soon I reckon we'll be so inundated with AI content in all media that it simply won't be possible or rational to be offended by it, it will just become our new reality, our new world.

Well worth watching, Adam Curtis takes you on a wild ride around recent history and strings together an amazing viewpoint - intentionally fucking with how you emotionally understand the present, by showing how power, myth, and simplification interact over time.

Full film at https://youtu.be/to72IJzQT5k

In northern Greenland they make kiviaq: in the summer go out with a large net and catch about 500 auks (small sea birds). Stuff them whole into a single seal skin, sew it up and bury it under a pile of rocks. After 6 months eat the whole birds. Apparently delicious.

Yes. I took over the project management of a job where the previous project manager had spent a year planning it out, but development had not yet started. The client was furious, understandably.

I abandoned the plans from the previous PM and discussed the job with the developer who ballpark estimated that the work would take 2 months. After a quick analysis I adjusted this to 14 weeks.

But the account manager thought this sounded too long and insisted that we plug everything in to a Gantt chart, define the shit out of everything, map the dependencies, etc, which showed that the development would only take 6 weeks.

The project ended up taking 14 weeks.

I find that ballpark estimates are often more accurate than estimates based on work breakdowns ... and this concurs with OP's observation that estimates tend to miss due to the unknowns.

If you're in the market for a new monitor, I recommend one with USB-C connectivity with power delivery - so convenient to just have one cable (and works with phones too).

Has anyone used this technique with other LLMs that are good at coding but not so expensive: for example Qwen 3 Coder?

Nice job! Added to my home screen.

Firefox on Android - seems to work perfectly.

Any plans to develop this further? I'm not sure how doable this is but I'd love to be able to program African polyrhythms on my phone.

I think the main dev challenges would be:

- add swing and humanization

- layering the polyrhythms on separate tracks

- adding different time signatures, e.g. 12/8 is common for African polyrhythms.

- allow independent cycle lengths per track

A good resource for further reading - https://djemberhythms.com/books/

A giveaway for detecting AI-generated text is the use of em-dashes, as noted in op - you are caught bang to rights!

--looking back at the chat session the religious sources appeared when I challenged Perplexity to ask it why it mislead me.

It then lied again when it denied that it had included religious sources.

A typical link from the sources is to Luke 21:8

"He replied: “Watch out that you are not deceived. For many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them."

At first I was just curious, and unimpressed with the horridly bland shite coming out of these AI music generators. But then I made a prompt that sparked some kind of magic, so now I want to finish off that track just to see if I can end up with something that I consider good.

I don't hold it much hope for this track because everything else I've heard on suno and udio are rubbish, but the 1 minute preview I have is enticing me to spend 8 bucks just so I can experiment a bit more.

I feel somewhat conflicted by my fascination because I have a great love for music and I wholeheartedly support efforts to restrict AI music crap.

But as the tools mature, the creative possibilities to make new sounds with finer control and granularity will make the process more ... creative - with greater human input.

I'm sure we'll end up with new styles and maybe even new genres that originate from prompts, and hits too. Is this a good thing to look forward to? I can see my future listening habits become strictly human only, but dang, the start of my new track sounds so dope!

I applaud Bandcamp's stance here and I will always look for ways to meaningfully support real musicians.

It's great to see Vistavision making a comeback, a perfect format IMHO, exemplified by Hitchcock's Vertigo - https://youtu.be/95o-QM-lz8g

Thanks for sharing, this is useful.

To the author, congrats and thank you. I have one piece of feedback:

When you are typing Typescript on your keyboard you are typing types using a strongly typed language.

Some definitions would be useful to novices: 'type' as a noun or verb, in the mathematical context + the notion of 'strong'.

The Chris Titus utility has worked very well for me. I used it to de-bloat Win 11 after I upgraded the OS last year.

I run Win 11 on an old tiny NUC PC that has Windows 10 before - now it does seem faster, is very stable and is not so annoying.

One thing: AFAIK you need to have the Windows 11 Pro version for the best de-bloating results.

Reminds me of the Volcano Technique for filing (old school paper) - don't file it, as it piles up the 'hot' documents tend to end up in the middle of the pile near the top.

I'm definitely going to try this

I was taken aback by the cookie preferences opt-out on Rotten Tomatoes - there is a marketing opt out button but then some text explains that to really opt out you also have to fill out a form on some other page, with your email address, etc.

Good background explanation: USA motives, oil, history ... https://youtu.be/4N9-qop-R8M

For anyone with young children I highly recommend reading them Winnie-the-Pooh for bedtime stories - much fun!

Anyone planning to give up software engineering for a blue-collar job?

Search for 'vibe marketing' on YouTube. Please note: I am not necessarily recommending this, but it is instructive to understand how some of your competitors could be leveraging technology in this way. Some of the techniques may be effective for you on their own, for example automating part of your keyword research activities.

The irony!

Yes it sounds like a bold statement. I called Gemini out on that and it admitted that it over-egged its confidence on that assertion.

But presumably the LLMs do have some knowledge about how they are used?

On further probing Gemini did give a plausible justification - in summary:

"Creation is easy. Selection is hard. In an era of infinite content, the "most successful" writer isn't the one who can produce the most; it's the one with the best taste. Using an LLM as a distillation machine allows a writer to iterate through their own ideas at 10x speed, discarding the "average" and keeping only the "potent."

Sounds like a great show, will give it a listen.

To the author: do you use AI at all in the creative aspects of the production? I assume that AI assistance in creative writing is now mainstream, and an accepted tool for most writers. I am interested to know your thoughts on this subject and if you use AI then what sort of methods do you use?

Note: Google Gemini reports that "the most successful writers in 2025 use me as a "distillation machine." They write 1,000 words of raw emotion, then ask me to help them find the "300 words that actually matter"

Hats off to The Quietus. I find their recommendations are the best for my music discovery, and this is a typically adventurous but nicely balanced year end list.

Kudos to albumoftheyear.org for compiling all these lists, a wonderful resource.