Brad Barrish

I love em dashes. Even on a superficial level, the sleek, suave em dash feels superior to the homogenous barrage of dots and commas that otherwise constitute the punctuation department of the English language. I quite enjoy its visual audacity. It takes up the most space of all the punctuation marks. In the cyberworld of excess, it draws the eye... See more

I’m coming to terms with the high probability that AI will write most of my code which I ship to prod, going forward. It already does it faster, and with similar results to if I’d typed it out. For languages/frameworks I’m less familiar with, it does a better job than me.

the danger isn’t that AI will deceive us in some dramatic, sci-fi way. The danger is that AI will make deception so cheap and so ubiquitous that we might stop trying to figure out what is true. Not because we are fooled, but because we are exhausted.