Le plus drôle c’est que je parle français. Très amusant, n’est-ce pas?

Oh, and Talking Heads fans calling them “psycho killer.”

Well, they don’t hate me, but they do get tired of French people sounding out our shared username and then making jokes about it.

There’s also the fact that what we are currently calling AI isn’t, that there are better options that aren’t environmental catastrophes (I’m hopeful about small language models), and that no one seems to want all the “AI” being jammed into every goddamn thing.

No, I don’t want Gemini in my email or messaging, I want to read messages from people myself. No, I don’t want Copilot summaries of my meetings in Teams, half the folks I work with have accents it can’t parse. Get the hell out of my way when I’m trying to interact with actual human beings.

And I say that as someone whose job literally involves working with LLMs every day. Ugh.

Software developer, here. (No, not a “vibe coder.” I actually know how to read and write my own code and what it does.)

Just had the opportunity to test GPT 5 as a coding assistant in Copilot for VS Code, which in my opinion is the only legitimately useful purpose for LLMs. (No, not to write everything for me, just to do some of the more tedious tasks faster.) The IDE itself can help keep them in line, because it detects when they screw up. Which is all the time, due to their nature. Even recent and relatively “good” models like Sonnet need constant babysitting.

GPT 5 failed spectacularly. So badly, in fact, that I’m glad I only set it to analysis tasks and not to any write tasks. I will not be using it for anything else any time soon.