Shaking my head in response to someone responding “We acted too quickly” with respect to downsizing as a result of AI implementation.

Step 1 – Jump on AI bandwagon

Step 2 – implement (pricey?) AI stuff hot off the presses

Step 3 – Layoffs = more $$$ for us!  Or more AI!

Step 4 – realize that (pricey?) AI didn’t actually effectively replace the employees

Step 5 – admit “oh well, sorry for the massive upheaval in my employees lives, but they are little people … and fungible”

I certainly admit this is the type of snarky post best left to Facebook or Bluesky or some other social media platform that I no longer use, but sometime I just have to scream.  Even if no lone is listening, or reading.

Always clever Google

Tuckahoe! I wanted information on how RAG and Live Intenet Search work with LLMs.  I chose Gemini 2.5 Pro Reasoning, Math & Code for the task.  The final example included as a follow up to expand on real time search included my physical location, which is freely...

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Bill Gates, not a jerk billionaire

Bill Gates has announced he's giving away 200B over the next 20 years to help address 3 moonshot global needs.  Here's the announcement from Gates Foundation There are a lot of people that idolize billionaires and I am not one of them.  A have an internal screed about...

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Gemini = Lazy Google?

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AI Musings 5-5-2025

 I am struggling to determine the best way to compare the big three LLMs. Side by side comparison of the same prompt is logical but yeesh, not sure I’ll have the time for such detailed analysis. Another thought I’ve had is to use a different one for time periods and...

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AI Musings 5-2-2025

I have been trying to use the top 3 (in my mind at least) LLMs regularly. I feel most likely to grab Copilot as Microsoft has so nicely put a cool looking rainbow colored icon on the taskbar of Windows.  I scratch my head a little as I don't recall allowing Microsoft...

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AI limitations – let’s change a Google Voice number

TQuist had a Google Voice number for a long time.  I never used it well, and then I neglected it, and then it was releasted back into the wild.  I confirmed earlier my previous number has been assigned to some else, which makes sense due to my inactivity.  So I want a...

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