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The biggest issue with AI at work today is not that it’s not helpful, but it’s unimaginative. I suspect that it will always be? Our AI tools are optimized to give feedback against our own internal knowledge base first and then external knowledge. This works great when you are doing research for topics internally and want to get understanding of how things work. However I have tried it and failed multiple times to get AI to imagine something brand new within the context of information about our company it has. I have prodded it to come with new ideas, new features and so on and each time either the idea is outlandish with no sense of connect to our limitations or it just keeps regurgitating the same stuff that has already been explored with new names and passing it off as a brand new idea. Like I would like it if AI just said nope I can’t generate ideas for you, but no it won’t do that. I suspect it’s on purpose.

This is a strange company where the engineering constantly asks me what “solution” I want them to build and I am like I want to tell you the what, not the how! You should be telling me what’s the best way to solve this – not the other way around that I dictate a solution and you just build it. In that case I could just use a team of Claude code AI engineers no?

IPL really seems to have really gone down in quality hasn’t it? Even back home in India nobody seems to be watching it or following it with interest. This was bound to happen with a format that is so one sided – like 250 scores are normal and teams even chase 264 with balls to spare. This is just not cricket anymore – just batting practice in a video game.

I have 4 reminders put on my calendar to get tickets for Olivia Rodrigo concert on Monday by my teenager. She’d used all caps multiple times in our family group to make me and her mom understand the importance of it. I had to actually scold her for constantly throwing all caps at us and told her if she sent another Olivia Rodrigo message in all caps no concert was happening!