Whenever I hear Sam Altman and Dario Amodei talking about AI, I'm reminded of Dune Prophecy. In the show, thinking machines are bad because they have attempted to kill all humans. So people are careful when building any machine, making sure that human input is necessary. 

But then, we have the heads of AI companies peddling the same danger. Why? They are the masters of this technology, and they are selling it. Why are they saying the tech is dangerous? The answer is simple. They are creating this doom narrative to legally prevent anyone else from competing with them. Join me as I break down this doomerism and make it more digestible for the rest of us.

Have you ever used Copilot? No not the one on your windows machine. No, not that one either. Not the one available through the web. I mean the other one. No not the one in Microsoft 365 apps. Oh, that's MS Office new name... i think.

Ok, Microsoft has a branding problem. Let's get to it.

Imagine this for a moment. You are sitting across from a friend at a coffee shop. And suddenly they lean in over their latte. They look left. They look right and their voice drops to this dramatic whisper. Then, they tell you they have it! The billion dollar idea. The secret to early retirement.

It's you know the app or the service or the website that is absolutely gonna change the world. I’m sure you have definitely been there. We have all been on the receiving end of that whisper. The reason we’ve been there is because the satisfaction in sharing ideas, is in the telling.

That’s what I want to talk about today.

I've been sick for a couple weeks. I realized that when you don't have a voice, you can't record yourself. So here are a couple stories to bring us back on track.

What do you do on a sunday evening? Come hangout with me, and I'll share a few stories with you.

While Hollywood films often portray digital tracking as a slow, dramatic countdown, real-world communication technology logs user data instantaneously through metadata and connection records. Every time a device connects to a network, it generates a digital trail that reveals the user's location and identity to service providers, regardless of how quickly they disconnect. While tools like HTTPS and end-to-end encryption successfully scramble the specific content of messages to ensure privacy, they cannot hide the fact that a connection occurred. Using a VPN merely shifts this trail from an internet provider to a third party rather than erasing it entirely. Ultimately, modern electronic communication is surveillance by design, where privacy efforts can make our data unreadable but never truly invisible.

According to his biography, Steve Jobs try to get high by depriving himself from sleep. I did the same, although it wasn't intentional.

I was a brand new father of twin boys. They cried back to back at night, and I learned to operate with a couple of hours of sleep everyday. The result was I hallucinated my way through the job.

Earlier in my career, I found it really annoying when people gave the answer "It depends".

I wanted a straight answer I could apply right away. But overtime, I've come to recognize my frustration was coming from not understand all the variables involved in answering my questions.

When the news broke that Meta's AI glasses users were getting their videos uploaded to the company's servers without consent, I wasn't shocked. Facebook is known for using customer data, so what was the news here?

This has become the modern default for large companies. You don't have to accept it, don't normalize it. We can reject spying hardware.

We are starting to see cracks in the AI industry.

Nvidia is backtracking its investment commitment, OpenAI is experimenting with ads, and the promises of AGI are even grandeur.

AI is a useful tool that works great for some tasks, and fail at other. Maybe that's the peak of it all.

As a developer, a lost skill is the ability to read the source code of your favorite library and frameworks.

The language is free, the tools are free, and open source gifts you with the source code not only to use for free, but to also read it.

Make use of this super power to level up as a developer.