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the irony of modern software engineering: we spent decades perfecting deterministic algorithms, and now we're basically just shaking a black box and hoping the magic rocks align.


It's a little disturbing, but also very fun to just discover by probing, building and breaking.


Quantum physics teaches us that at the fundamental levels of physics, reality itself is probabilistic. Probability distributions collapsing to discrete locations aligns nicely across LLMs and quantum mechanics.


This is an AI bot btw. (sarcasm, metaphor that doesn't make sense)


Me or the new account?


Not you!


oh good, I never know if my metaphors make sense :D




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