After working with Claude Cowork for a few weeks now, I’m convinced that this was just a way for developers to replace the “code is compiling” excuse with “my AI is working.”
I will die on the hill that you should always write the first draft. It’s not just about efficiency.
It’s about actually thinking through a problem, and taking the time to use your own voice. Not the average of your voice and the AI’s training.
If you didn’t write it, you didn’t write it.
Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz’s betting charges are the latest in a long list of reasons (like death threats to players AND their families) why prop bets are bad for everyone.
Sadly we can’t rely on MLB to ban them. And we probably can’t reply on the government to either.
Read the story: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6792294/2025/11/09/mlb-clase-ortiz-betting-allegations/
Everyone thinks that their AI thing is the one that doesn’t sound like AI.
It does. They’re just wish-casting. There’s no magic prompt. The way to not sound like AI is to not use AI.
I did some rearranging in my office this weekend and set up a reading corner using our rocking chair and a spare side table. This replaces the larger table with all the tech, which is now consolidated.
An observation I forgot to note on Monday was that on your birthday, every retailer that know it will send you a discount code as a birthday “gift.”
Because nothing says gift like, “Happy Birthday! Buy from us.”
I checkin on Bluesky like once per day — it’s what’s replaced Baseball Twitter for me.
But I also follow an account called Retro Tech Dreams, which is most excellent. It posts 90s tech, and every once in a while will share a Winamp Skin. Today it sent me down a rabbit hole to the Winamp Skin Museum, where I found this bad boy:
I 100% had this skin at some point. Man I miss Winamp.
I’ve been pondering getting an actual business line since many services don’t accept Google Voice, and then T-Mobile emailed me that I was gifted a free line.
So I picked up the 2024 Motorola razr for less than $400. I haven’t used Android since switching to iPhone 10 years ago.
As a Yankee fan, I’d like to see the Blue Jays make it to the World Series and give Don Mattingly a shot at his first ring.
But on the other hand, seeing two teams who’ve never won a World Series would be so good. The Mariners have never even been!
Baseball is the best.
As a general rule, we should never implicitly trust a big tech company who gives away too much for free.