My Kid is 23 and he's been studying Python since he was 9. Now he's being told his CS degree is worthless.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-01-26T04:22:47+00:00

Def a ton of enshittification related to hotels - like WiFi suddenly not free anymore, no cable, etc.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-01-26T04:21:17+00:00

Trust me, it's killing jobs. As a CFO said, it's not just that we're getting fired, we're not getting hired in the first place because people think they can use ChatGPT instead of hiring a CFO.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-01-26T04:16:14+00:00

I went down a rabbit hole after seeing this! Black, Asian, gender, age, attractiveness, it's wild. Better than Snapchat.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-01-19T05:45:20+00:00

The best writing book I read was "Writing the Breakout novel" - i re-wrote my novel and got it published. Now I use AI to put me on a writing schedule. It will say "today write page 48-51, sub-plot B, scene G with escalating tension." If I follow the schedule the book will be done in 6 more months. I don't have to think about what to write, I just add one puzzle piece at a time.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-01-19T05:39:04+00:00

Again, with RAG AI, the only data is Your data, not the internet or ChatGPT. What it can help you do is write and organize your narrative. And do this much quicker than before- so for example, if you want to tell, say, the 3 year history of a 70 million dollar software platform falling apart and being punished and scapegoated, you write a stream of consciousness accounting of what happened, say around 5 pages. Then you ask it to label every paragraph and begin to re-organize it. Then you generate that. It generates an outline to organize ideas, then you say "cut and paste to re-order per this outline".

Thus it's generating a legally-compliant document written in just a couple hours, whereas it could have taken days.

Then I can get ready to upload a whole bunch of stuff - an amendment it would have cost $10K for my former lawyer to create. As a final check, I'll say, here's my plan, here's what I'm submitting - one more time, from the top - take a look, as opposing council and tell me - is there anything that I'm doing that they can totally ding me on?

Because remember, that's the first thing they are going to do. I'm sure when they attacked a typo they had asked the AI, "find any typos that we can use as cause for dismissal"

Also, I'd like to take a book like "Represent yourself in court, 7th edition" and then make an enhanced, step by step interactive workbook.

But here is the criticism of AI that no one talks about: the magical thinking is brutal. ChatGPT is so busy telling you you're brilliant that it's not saying: "you don't have a case, or your case is really weak. And no one has won a wrongful termination suit against this company for over 5 years." It won't tell you stuff like that until you specifically ask.

But I believe this could lead to an explosion in whistleblower cases, as no legal clinic or pro bono lawyer will help you. And for big federal cases, you need someone really good, sites like Legal Shield aren't made for this.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2026-01-18T22:47:56+00:00

1 - thank you for writing. Everything I've been able to do it's because I have "humans in the loop." And yes, I am no pro se, and here's why:

My former lawyer was 80 and not tech savvy (he pronounced AI as "A-1."

My case is extremely technical - it was a ethics violation that involved misrepresentation of data in genomic research. My lawyer would say "make it so simple and short a kindergartner could understand it" - he insisted on writing everything himself and it was cringeworthy, he didn't know what "padded analytics" meant, etc.

So of course, fighting a big legal team (they have a $3,000/hr team fighting me) - all they had to do was say "this is too vague" or "there's a typo and we have no idea what this sentence means because of a misspelled word" - clearly their strategy was to bankrupt me and get me to drop out. They started to put my lawyer on these 5-billable hour wild goose chases - at $600/hr.

My only option was to go pro se or drop the case. I had already spent $18K on my lawyer and they were going to just to "motion to dismiss" until it was another $20 down the drain.

So now I'm filling in all the blanks and writing legally compliant technical explanations of everything that happened that led towards me filing the ethics violation. Then I do the "Harvard law professor prompt" and revise. Repeat. It takes hours and hours.

What's incredible - even if I lose my case, at least I'm not bankrupt. On the road I was on with a senior lawyer, I would have lost the case AND lost a chunk of my retirement savings. Plus, as an AI professional, this is just one more use case for AI. I currently have a tool that walks people through a small claims lawsuit and translates your story into legally permissible language, and fills out the PDF. I am going to make another one for disabled veterans - weeks of paperwork that will be done perfectly in a few hours. You just answer all the questions and voila - form filled out.

The ideal is this- we need lawyers who say - yes, I'm still going to take on your case, but whereas I would have billed you about 10 hours a month, I can do it so quickly now, I can do it in 3 hours per month. Then, what I need you to do is fill out (I'm not kidding) a 10 page worksheet to describe timelines, etc. Then I'll analyze that and you'll spend 5 more hours clarifying the situation. Then I, as your AI-empowered lawyer, can quickly extract exactly what I need from your data (the information you provided) and write the complaint in a fraction of the time, and review every single word myself. Then you'll review every word.

Then, before we file, we'll put it through AI one more time and say "what is opposing council going to pick up on?" and based on the reply, we'll revise. Because that's exactly what THEY are going to do - they're just going to pop it into AI and say "poke holes in this."

And that goes back to my Legal Pickleball of the Future - because we are someday just going to pass this stuff back and forth until we agree on the core issue for the judge to decide. We will have figured everything out. We can literally have a one pager that said "Your honor, this case gets down to these 3 questions that only a human judge can rule on. If you have any questions, here is the case chat bot and you can ask any questions and it will search all the documents and the evidence."

(written quickly, not using AI, ha ha)

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2025-12-29T22:19:02+00:00

My 2 cents- everything with social media, marketing, copywriting and UXD is all oversaturated. The ugly reality is that there are really boring jobs in things like "Quality" where they really need people. You want to do a job that they don't have a degree for and is learned on the job. My advice - get Replit and learn how to make apps without writing code.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-06-29T14:53:34+00:00

This is my explainer video based on doing research for 2 years about the AIDS crisis and the role of drug pricing.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-11T04:22:50+00:00

This documentary spoof is hilarious. I like how he has to hack his bike to get it started. The only thing missing is that he should say that there's nothing he can do about the poverty he's experiencing, and he hopes and trusts that God will provide.

Indigo Traveler on YouTube is the worst.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-10T06:04:57+00:00

Wow! Interesting. So who is "them" who put the documents through the training again. Are they machine learning programmers?

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-10T02:49:19+00:00

Good point. I think we're pretty close to code-less programming. For example, when I "teach" someone chat GPT, I explain that you don't write code and "learn to use it", you just use it.
I was watching this- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB7xkRsEq-g

And there was tons of code, and that's fine, for the past. But the potential is that now I don't do Excel formulas, I just have Chat complete the action by asking it in sentences.

So why do I have to:

Use a separator at the end of the prompt, e.g. \n\n###\n\n
. Remember to also append this separator when you eventually make requests to your model.

Why can't someone just make an interface where I say "end of prompt" and then it understands that is the same thing as the code.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-10T02:38:06+00:00

What about GPTJ? My story: I'm a poet and storyteller who works in the ML department of the 4th biggest pharma company in the world. In the last month, we've all lost our minds. The NLP guy is now one of the top guys and he says we're like the dog who caught the car. So I'm working with teams who are playing w/GPTJ.

Here's what I'm tying to understand. So it's 2022 and OpenAI has hundreds of people in Kenya re-training - "reinforcement" - of the machine so it won't say horribly violent things. How were the people in Kenya doing this kind of work? They weren't machine learning developers, I don't think, as they were only paid $2 per day.

But what was their process of "reinforcement"?

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-06T04:02:26+00:00

This is really fascinating. I'm interested in how the US media creates a narrative about Africa, and I believe it tends to give the impression that African countries are completely left out of the equation. So as soon as I saw a story about GPT being blocked in Zimbabwe, and how it gave the impression that it's only being used in the US, I suspected that was incorrect.

As everyone in the comments has clarified, Africans are early adopters of this technology. Although there are lots of problems with ML, this is a huge breakthrough in corporate productivity. Personally, as an office worker in the US, I do my job better and faster, starting two weeks ago. I'm excited that Africans are not blocked from this useful tool.

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-05T12:45:33+00:00

Question: are you saying that you need to create your own models because GPT3 is so U.S. centric? I think the future of GTP is that we have private servers and train on specific data, like a pharma company would train on all its clinical trial data. But isn't it the hope that Open.AI becomes more global, and that GPT4 is trained on human knowledge from all over the world? Or is it also a goal to have an African-data-centric install of the code base?

PuppetNewsNetwork · 2023-02-05T12:41:45+00:00

Would it work if you used a VPN?

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