@cyberlyra oh my gosh, I think I’m a keener!! I’ve not had a word like this to describe my attitude towards learning for the sake of learning.

Thank you for introducing it to us

@mttaggart @scottwilson thank you for such a good post summarizing the Anthropic study - I was trying to share the paper with some folks earlier, but they aren’t used to reading academic docs, so your post has been a much easier distillation to send them

@mttaggart @scottwilson I can attest to that. I’m not a coder, but a marketer who got caught up in the pressure and ended up using AI about 1-2 times a week for a year.

I quit end of June last year, and I really do mean “quit” because I feel like an addict in recovery counting down the months I’ve been sober. I had very severe cravings to touch the chatbots when I stopped, and I still feel them at least once a month now.

The itch is “this task is hard and frustrating, what if I just asked AI to help me just this once?”. It’s gotten much easier to ignore but god. I didn’t even use this stuff everyday or like it at any point!

@inthehands this has driven me crazy for years and I have never been able to find a tool that handles that.

@kyleford and the default way to get paid is via crypto…

@sundogplanets @adambecker.bsky.social this rec made me happy to see because it’s published by Hachette (where I work) and I just got a copy from the office to gift to a family member who’s been a bit too AI-optimistic.

@briankrebs and coupled with immigration law having provisions that classify any kind of omission on an immigration, visa, or entry form as potential immigration fraud and grounds to disqualify the individual from ANY future status = anybody that forgets one email address or social media account they’ve had years ago is suddenly easily turned into an “illegal immigrant” and passed into the jurisdiction of ICE for deportation and potentially a permanent life ban from the US.