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Cake day: March 18th, 2026

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  • This is going to get hated around here, but LLMs are actually a lot more useful than just being silly toys.

    I use it for work regularly and it produces reports comparable to what I would expect from a entry level engineer. It has problems that have to be fixed during review for sure, but so do entry level engineers.

    Now that’s not to say that it’s ultimately going to prove it’s multi-trillion dollar investment value. If it doesn’t progress significantly, and very quickly, than these companies will start to run out of investment money.

    But that’s how the “free market” is supposed to work. Investors invest in something to develop the idea. If it doesn’t work then the investors lose their money.

    The thing that’s broken in our economy is that the federal government isn’t allowing the market to make corrections. For every correction since the dot-com bubble burst the federal government has swooped in and bailed out the bag investments, preventing the correction to occur. And so, for the past 15 years, investors have just moved forward with the assumption that if there is a correction then the federal government will bail them out, so there is no reason to ever pull back on investing because there is no risk anymore, which creates a self-fullfilling prophecy and prevents corrections.

    It’s sort of looks like we’ve accidentally figured out how to cure recessions.