Daily Archives: 2023-06-03

Article note: Grammatically pleasing AI spew is exploiting the same mental shortcut as the well established "Anything looks credible if it's typeset in LaTeX" or "Printing resumes on nice paper for a subconscious boost" effects. We use secondary/contextual indicators, which are historically proxies for "How much time, expense, and/or expertise was involved in preparing this document" to judge documents. It's not even that different than printing eliminating the quality of the scribe's work as a tell. Which is interesting.

Article note: I've been known to refer to using git for most projects as "Hammering a nail by launching and deorbiting a space station on to it." It's a great piece of tech internally, but it's a fucking awful interface that maps poorly to how it works internally and even more poorly to any human model of files or software or work.