{"id":5419,"date":"2025-06-14T15:24:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2025-06-14T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T22:40:32","slug":"odd-lots-357","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=5419","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>An AI company went bankrupt after it came out that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dexerto.com\/entertainment\/ai-company-files-for-bankruptcy-after-being-exposed-as-700-human-engineers-3208136\/\" target=\"_blank\">its supposed \u201cvibe-coding\u201d AI was a team of 700 Indian software engineers<\/a>. Even Microsoft fell for it, and threw gobs of money at them. Which brings up an interesting question: How do possible investors (or anyone else) know where (and even what) an AI is? <\/li>\n<li>Not everyone thinks that vibe coding is slam-dunk easy. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/andrew-ng-vibe-coding-unfortunate-term-exhausting-job-2025-6\" target=\"_blank\">A Stanford prof does it, and says it\u2019s intellectually exhausting<\/a>\u2014just like \u201cmanual\u201d coding is. The trick with all AI work is knowing how to create the prompts that will deliver the desired results. Although I\u2019ve not tried vibe coding with an AI yet, my experience with text and images suggests that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prompt_engineering\" target=\"_blank\">prompt engineering<\/a>\u201d is the real challenge, and to me, prompt engineering looks like programming in yet another English-like language.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2025\/06\/03\/meta-constellation-energy-artificial-intelligence-ai-data-center-nuclear-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\">Meta signed a 20-year deal with Constellation Energy<\/a>, to help fund new nuclear generation capacity, starting with a plant in Illinois. If carbon is indeed the problem, nuclear is the solution. I have had some peculiar experiences with AI over the past months, but I\u2019m willing to root for AI as a way to bring nuclear power back from the grips of those Atomic Scientists who simply can\u2019t force themselves to go fission.<\/li>\n<li>In case you missed it: Lazarus 4.0 is out. Compatibility with Delphi is high. The 4.0 system was built using FreePascal 3.2.2. Go get it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lazarus-ide.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Here\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmind.org\/salvo\/to-absquatulate\/\" target=\"_blank\">a wonderful short-ish article on Mark Twain\u2019s rowdy early years<\/a> in (bogglingly) rowdy Virginia City, Nevada.<\/li>\n<li>Today is the semiquincentennial of the US Army. Also the sestercentennial. Oh, and the bisesquicentennial too. Big words rock. I love \u2019em. And next year will be all those big words for the US itself, not to mention Carol\u2019s and my 50th wedding anniversary. <\/li>\n<li>Classmates continues to send me nonsense. I supposedly have a private message waiting from a Maria G., who was in De Paul University\u2019s Class of 1971. (The message was posted in 2007.) Well, I have that yearbook, and she\u2019s not in it. (Her name, which I won\u2019t quote here, is very unusual and I have been unable to find her online.) Some years back Classmates asked me if I knew a girl named Linda something, who was in the Lane Tech Class of 1970, like me. Uh\u2026no. Lane was an all-boy school until a couple of years after I graduated. I gave Classmates money once. I won\u2019t be giving them money again. They make up stuff like a\u2026like an AI.<\/li>\n<li>Well, as far as I\u2019m concerned, the famous TED talks are now over. An Australian prof who did all the necessary research was tossed out of the TED universe for a presentation that cast doubt on the perpetrators of useless COVID reactions like lockdowns, and showed evidence that the not-really-a-vaccine (you <em>can<\/em> get it and spread it!) caused more harm than good. TED stated right out that criticism of political and health leaders was verboten. <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.maryannedemasi.com\/p\/when-ideas-become-too-dangerous-to\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing<\/a>. (H\/T to Sarah Hoyt for the link.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An AI company went bankrupt after it came out that its supposed \u201cvibe-coding\u201d AI was a team of 700 Indian software engineers. Even Microsoft fell for it, and threw gobs of money at them. Which brings up an interesting question: How do possible investors (or anyone else) know where (and even what) an AI is? 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