If it has a sense of humor, why can it not have an ego? Actually, that sounds like something an AI would say. Is it Steve, or is it AI? Like the ads, is it live or is it Memorex? Steve, did you get sucked into the computer like in Tron? Or did you get replaced by AI? Or is IRL Steve off being the last Starfighter and you are his simuloid stand-in?
<https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=V74C3NsW_9o> On August 26, 2026 7:22:18 PM CDT, Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >Claude has some easter egg type stuff in it. I burn tokens like mad and >when fable got released I kept calling it evil claude and I call haiku fake >claude. Now whenever its building and needs a temp folder or im building a >sample product it names the themp something with evil in it, it uses >evil.com as a samle domain and names sample companies evil corp. I have to >actually write an instruction so it never makes its way into a client >presentation. >The nerd behind machine language have some humor. > But 9 times out of 10 youre going to get a better outcome from claude or >codex than you will hiring an expert. 10 times out of 10 if you run an >adversarial review on your product. I cant imagine the training data that >was dumped into these things, theres little its not familiar with. It even >found Vermeer part numbers for my old 7x11 that vermeer couldnt identify. >The AI doesnt have ego, thats why the outcomes are so much better than from >"experts". 10/10 of course is an exaggeration, but Id be hard pressed to >pay for much out of an "expert" anymore > >On Tue, Aug 4, 2026 at 12:31 PM Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I saw an article about the latest model from Alibaba being about on a par >> with Anthropic and OpenAI. It was behind a paywall but linked to this blog >> post: >> >> https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8 >> >> >> >> So could you choose to use a Chinese model instead of a US model? Is it >> just a matter of signing up and buying some tokens? Would you choose based >> on who has the latest price? If you’re not doing anything super secret, >> would you care if it’s Chinese? >> >> >> >> I went to their website, it offered web or API access with prices in US >> dollars. I found the pricing confusing, tokens for this, tokens for that, >> seems like it would be difficult to know just how much it will cost to >> accomplish a given task, like Chuck writing his program. Are they all >> priced this way? >> >> >> >> *From:* AF <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *[email protected] >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 1, 2026 4:38 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT AI Claude >> >> >> >> Well Claude appeared very smart, insightful and helpful. I had the urge >> to thank it afterwards. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> *From:* AF <[email protected]> on behalf of Mathew Howard < >> [email protected]> >> *Sent:* Saturday, August 1, 2026 2:42 PM >> *To:* AnimalFarm Microwave Users Group <[email protected]> >> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT AI Claude >> >> >> >> Good point. In my opinion, "artificial intelligence" really isn't a good >> description of these things, because it implies that there is actual >> intelligence there, and there isn't. "simulated intelligence" would be a >> more accurate name for what's really going on. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2026, 3:01 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have to give the standard disclaimer: LLM's produce output that >> statistically matches what a response to your input should look like. >> >> If you trained it with the specs for ANSI C it would not know how to write >> any C because it can't learn the spec and apply it. I have never used an >> ESP32, but for it to work that well there must be lots of documentation and >> discussion with working examples available to train it. I really don't >> think we should be calling these things "AI" because it sets the >> expectations too high, but I won't deny that it can produce useful outcomes. >> >> >> >> On Sat, Aug 1, 2026 at 2:37 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Wrote (better, described a desired outcome) my first AI program today for >> an ESP32. Holy cow was that fast and easy and seemingly perfect. Have not >> tested it yet but looks good. >> >> >> >> >> >> So easy... wow! >> >> >> >> Best Regards, >> Chuck McCown >> >> McCown Technology Corporation >> 8401 N Commerce Dr >> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/8401+N+Commerce+Dr+%0D%0A+Lake+Point,+Utah+84074?entry=gmail&source=g> >> Lake Point, Utah 84074 >> <https://www.google.com/maps/search/8401+N+Commerce+Dr+%0D%0A+Lake+Point,+Utah+84074?entry=gmail&source=g> >> 801-250-9503 Office >> 435-830-4306 Cell >> www.mccowntech.com >> www.microtrench.pro >> www.terabitnetworks.com >> >> >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >> >> -- >> AF mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >>
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