i think it would be enough.

like, if all llm development stopped today and we just have what we have now, i think it would take me a thousand years to not even lose interest in the access and power of the accountability partner, right hand man/woman, over the shoulder, digital butler we have today.

like seriously, it’s transformative to someone like me who spent years going back and forth about platforms, learning enough to get by because he did’nt want to explore code to an infinite degree.

don’t get me wrong a younger man tried, from fortran, pascal, basic, css1/2 and a whole bunch of other things that got me into jobs and allowed me to build the early part of my life out. blessings, simple as, just blessings.

but then it became about speed, frameworks, this faster than that, whole personality and identities shaped by code and platforms and idealogy of that way was right over the next platform.

and now, it feels like we have all the knowledge, it’s just about us learning to ask the right questions again, it’s having an impact outside of that, it’s giving back us time to think about our lives and what they mean, what they should look like, how isolated we have become.

if the pandemic showed us anything it was the fact that we needed to lean in and onto something, the notion of losing access to the outside world and an invisible killer was immense — god only knows what the people who were in the black death period of our time on earth felt. disconnected.

today, ai helped me start building out a little platform that allows me to broadcast out to platforms i want in the way they want, but more than that it allowed me to consider what putting myself in the middle, me being the middleman looked like instead of being part of the man in the middle attack of technology and deploy at any cost at any scale.

and the reason for the post? restriction, i only have the $20 a month package on claude and you know, it’s enough, if i’m just thinking about making money or pushing some grand suite of apps then maybe if i had the money i’d get the $200 a month max edition. i don’t, so i cannot.

but something made me take notice of the wording and the way it handled me and how it let me down gently that i should maybe be considering i was ahead anyway when it told me, indirectly, take stock of what you’ve done, the recharge will be at X time tonight.

felt like, that’s what your brain is willing to do today, in the same way that an LLM loses it’s context when the window of context is too large and it starts to lose it’s way — we do too. big time, i could have kept going at it, feature, route, output output output.

but then this blog post would not exist and there is something to be said about an accountability partner that covers all the bases when you cannot. i’m starting to believe the future of my digital connection to the world and tech is one that is trained by me to be me when i no longer can do or be me.

from the decaying grey matter to the sheer volume of change in our environments it’s handy to have a helping hand, a source of truth we trust about us first and foremost and then out onto the digital highway with it’s bandits and thieves.

i cannot wait to get into agents and within them subtasks and indirect learning about the things i love, the pictures and context i’ve built up already in the first fifty years of life for it to learn from about me, to shape the nuance of a version of me that needs to be 100% when i am less than.

seems to be a unison of ideals there at the first bridge/step into this new realm, one wants to learn and one wants to remember and contribute, it’s like the perfect fusion where for the first time both sides win without competing.

digital has become a joy once more.

peace and love x humble heavy industries