Dan Lyke 19:04:25+0000 (2026-02-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2249,-122.628)

While I'm being annoyingly prescriptivist about language, if we can stop referring to "updating the language in the prompt" to "training", that too would help me take AI proponents more seriously.

Dan Lyke 05:36:59+0000 (2026-02-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.225,-122.628)

"Inspiration without technique - if it exists at all - is merely flair. If inspiration is all you have it will abandon you when you need it most." -- David Ball in "Backwards and Forwards: A Technical Manual for Reading Plays"

Dan Lyke 00:50:18+0000 (2026-02-12)— twitter (1/0) facebook (0/0) flutterby (1/1) — Lat,Lon: (38.2365,-122.643)

If GenX would stop using "f/u" to mean "follow-up" in email subject lines, I wouldn't complain.