On My Mind…

Prompt Word: Ace #wss366 (ace) (1/3) An explosion fills the screen, and after three beats of the high paced soundtrack suddenly silenced, a whole second, the hero’s space fighter finally emerges from the fringes of the shrinking fireball. Jeremy comments, “That’s why he’s the ace.” His group of tween friends all agree enthusiastically, much to the embarrassment of Robert, who had tried to get the kids to understand on the ride over that there is supposed to be some decorum in a public movie theater....

Prompt Word: Brief #wss366 (brief) (1/2) Patricia: I really wish you wouldn’t say that, Chuck. Chuck: Say, what? Patricia: Ugh, that thing you just said. It makes you sound like a cartoon character. Chuck: What do you mean? You did a great pitch in there, and I think the board was impressed by what you had to say. Patricia: Yes, thank you, I wish you would say it that way....

Explaining The Doom and Gloom First, I want to explain why many people seem overly worried about people who are using LLMs regularly. Look up the term “cognitive surrender”, a LOT of folks who have been in tech for a while know at least one person who has fallen into this trap, where they stop thinking for themselves, and just have the LLM feed them everything. I’m not even talking about idiots off the street, I’m talking about folks who have been programming for 10+ years, basically forgetting how to organize common programming patterns without AI holding their hands through it, even though only 3 years ago, that same person was explaining it to new hires....

Prompt Word: Smut DISCLAIMER: This is not fiction, it’s history. My real history. It was the 90s. Phone entertainment lines were at their peak. Celebrities shilled for psychic readings on mainstream outlets. Chat lines were shilled in the back of magazines. Microsoft had product support at the end of a 900 number. The backbone of it all was smut for lonely men. Gay men, straight men, there was a line to cater to what lonely men wanted....