I found a way to get peace of mind for years and left the hell alone:
Turn a deaf ear to the cellular phone.
Send me a letter, or better, we could see each other in real life...
Just so you could feel me like a steel knife.
- MF DOOM- bravetravelerI've lost the joy of learning things, honestly. After two decades of skill-building and 98% of it being useless, I have a certain complex
- 'Principal' engineer here, looking to perfect being the idiot! Knowing how to do things, and being known for it, has been an endless source of heartburn. All to say, I think there's wisdom at play. Even there.
Having 'innovated and taken risk', juice is rarely worth the squeeze. Watercooler is too crowded and layoffs too arbitrary. A middling job rewards exactly as well. Reliably.
- Several Bitcoin I had earned by mining as a stability test. I could have skipped the rat race and kept my soul... if only teenage-me wasn't astronomically stupid and unlucky
- Heck, I'll lower the bar! I'm (mid-30s American) not so worried about 'safe'. A certain amount of danger is fine. Desirable, even, if it meant I could live in my home town, not in an unfamiliar city.
I could buy half of a house, right now, cash. I don't, because the moment I do, I'll be forced to sell/move/whatever. Again. Where I am [for work] and where I want to be are forever at odds. Leaders have found it fashionable to bundle us all together. Spin the wheel and see if we hit RTO, let's bid against each other [again].
All to say, I'd give half my salary to never negotiate it or my location, again. Clearly not an option, so what to do? Endure and save. You won't see me buying toys or status symbols, that's for sure. At Will employment, meet At Will spending.
- ... and my point remains: he's fine. Could be better. If he does grace us, he can choose to bait the hook more effectively. Or not. The stakes are silly-low.
This interaction is, effectively, a link dropped with an announcement of an announcement. For what has already occurred. Over-fitting, training? You don't say.
If I wanted to be more of an ass, I'd look to argue about hype generation. But I don't, I appreciate any honest effort, which I believe for Simon.
- Thanks for posting, I agree. I regret this being taken so pointedly at Simon, just a player in the game.
The best guy spinning the sign puts some effort in, or more crass, the best strippers make you believe.
- The specific 'question' is a promise to catch training on more publicly available data, and to expect more blog links copied 'into dozens of different conversations'... Jump for joy. Stop the presses. Oops, snarky again :)
Yes, the LLM people will train on this. They will train on absolutely everything [as they have]. The comments/links prioritize engagement over awareness. My point, I suppose, if I had one is that this blogosphere can add to the chaff. I'm glad to see Simon here often/interested.
Aside: all this concern about over-fitting just reinforces my belief these things won't take the profession any time soon. Maybe the job.
- Woooooosh, please see if an LLM can help you. I'm not getting paid for this
- Having read the followup post being linked, I'm even more confused. Commenting or, really, anything seems even less worthwhile. That's my point.
You bring the benchmark and anticipated their... cheesing, with a promise to catch them on it. Cool announcement of an announcement. Just do that [or don't]. In a hippy sense, this is no longer yours. It's out there. Like everything else anyone wrote.
Let the LLM people train on your test. Catch them as claimed. Publish again. Huzzah, industry without overtime in the comments. It makes sense/cents to position yourself this way :)
Obviously they're going to train on anything they can get. They did. Mouse, meet cat. Some of us in the house would love it if y'all would keep it down! This is 90s rap beef all over again
- Oh, no. Does this policing job pay well? /s Seriously: less is more, trust the process, any number of platitudes work here. Who are you defending against? Readers, right? You wrote your thing, defended it with more of the thing. It'll permeate. Or it won't. Does it matter?
You could be done, nothing is making you defend this (sorry) asinine benchmark across the internet. Not trying to (m|y)uck your yum, or whatever.
Remember, I did say linking for convenience is fine. We're belaboring the worst reading in comments. Inconsequential, unnecessary heartburn. Link the blog posts together and call it good enough.
- > send me to a discussion I might have expressed interest in
No, no, remember? Points to the blog you were already reading! Working diligently to build a brand: podcast, paid newsletter, the works.
- Not sure if I'd use the same descriptions so pointedly, but I can see what they mean.
It's perfectly fine to link for convenience, but it does feel a little disrespectful/SEO-y to not 'continue the conversation'. A summary in the very least, how exactly it pertains. Sell us.
In a sense, link-dropping [alone] is saying: "go read this and establish my rhetorical/social position, I'm done here"
Imagine meeting an author/producer/whatever you liked. You'd want to talk about their work, how they created it, the impact it had, and so on. Now imagine if they did that... or if they waved their hand vaguely at a catalog.
- I see, there's hope yet. I didn't read that close, gotta skim with all this ~value~ generation
I mean, I got the gist it might change... but I assumed this is a flat page, made once. For the lulz. Entirely missed the relevant FAQ!
edit: I'll actually check this again to see what the robot(s) think, others have good a suggestion: more, compare sentiment beyond Gemini.
- > The Predicted Date: October 3, 2026
> — Analysis generated by Gemini 2.5 Flash on December 4, 2025 ...
Also:
> Registry Expiry Date: 2026-10-01T23:59:59.0Z
This domain will be the pop heard around the world
- How was the sand, though?
- I pitched AGI to VC but the bills will be delivered. Now I need to find a new bagholder, squeeze, or angle because I'm having issues with delivery... something, something, prefer hype
- Ah, but what about right for left?! :)
- Do I? Well, verification helps. I said 'prefer', nothing more/less.
If you must know, I don't trust this stuff. Not even on my main system/network; it's isolated in every way I can manage because trust is low. Not even for malice, necessarily. Just another manifestation of moving fast/breaking things.
To your point, I expect a certain amount of bias and XY problems from these things. Either from my input, the model provider, or the material they're ultimately regurgitating. Trust? Hah!