I ran out of tokens this weekend. One set of them, anyway. I’d spent all of Saturday working with Claude on my Story Bible Builder app – the little macOS app that reads a novel out of a Scrivener file and builds a story bible: which characters are in each scene, what locations, who’s the…
A Bug Hunt, an Accidental Benchmark, and a Model That Flatters Itself
Yesterday Anthropic shipped Opus 5. This morning, from my phone and still half awake, I asked it to review an old web app of mine. It came back with a bug list long enough that I decided to find out what OpenAI’s Codex, xAI’s Grok and Anthropic’s previous model would make of exactly the same…
Internet Time vs. AI Time
I first heard about the Internet in 1985. It was an academic oddity created in 1969 that connected mainframe computers around the world. By 1990, it was becoming a commercial endeavour. Computers were being connected to it at a growing pace. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web. In 1994, the Netscape browser…
What’s It Like Working With A Code Assistant
I recently went to Make With Notion in San Franscico and one of the most facinating panels was with Simon Last a the co-founder of Notion and some engineers from Anthropic, the makers of Claude. Simon is obviously a major coder and both the engineers work with code daily. So imagine how facinating this question…
Stop Maximizing
I find myself and others spending too much time and energy maximizing everything. Or at least maximizing every decision. What is the best diet? What is the best workout program? What’s the best vacuum cleaner, or oven mitt? This takes time, energy and mental focus. Plus it keeps us from doing or picking anything. It…
60 at 60
I did something like this post of things I believe at 54. Its my birthday so here are 60 things I believe now about all kinds of things. Rereading the 54 at 54, I think I was deeper then.
A Tribute to My Brother
My brother Ezra Joshua Davis went to his reward March 23. It was sudden and unexpected and the empty space is felt by all of us. Ez loved people during a life of blessing punctuated with hardship. He was born in poverty that few in America can even understand, in Bombay, India. His single mom…
I Started a Business
It is crazy that I haven’t written a blog post in over a year. Right after The Adventures of Space Girl Red came out. A lot has happen. A crazy amount. Not the least of which is I bought a franchise for Osteostrong and opened a brick and mortar wellness business. Technically a Biohacking business….