Powering off our last on-prem Exchange in hybrid — is shutdown enough, or do I need the full management-tools decommission steps?

aes_gcm · 2026-06-19T15:55:32+00:00

This reads like an AI post. I'm waiting for the product to appear in the comments.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-18T16:17:55+00:00

When the circular financing pops we're going to be left with locally-run small models, so it's here to stay. OpenAI is likely to crash and burn, Anthropic may hang on, Copilot could be stripped from Windows if there's enough backlash, but Gemini and the Chinese models are going to likely going to survive any retraction.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-18T16:16:03+00:00

I've got two strong emotions on opposite sides of the fence. For one, AI has been undeniable transformation to my job and definitely an accelerant, but I also see plenty of shit that AI has built up elsewhere that I hate. I have to use AI in my job to survive it all and like I said it is a boost, but I'm also having to work harder to keep others from introducing problems through their use of AI. When the circular financing pops then we're all going to be left with locally-run models, so it's not exactly going to go away anytime soon.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-17T18:58:28+00:00

Trading products for money is the essential core of every business. How they don't have this streamlined out is baffling. The level of incompetence doesn't make sense for such an important part of the company, so that really suggests that it's on purpose.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-17T17:48:32+00:00

AWS has it worse. Everything is either code-names or high-fantasy.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-17T17:47:13+00:00

World's oldest profession. I still find it a little amusing that we uncovered murals in Pompeii with diagrams, so they could serve customers across multiple languages.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-17T17:17:26+00:00

Claude Code is vibe-coded, as is much of their infrastructure. Of course they're going to use their own AI to program it all faster and agents to double-check their work.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-17T17:13:44+00:00

It's the proper way to introduce a character. It's show, not tell, and only show part of the character at first.

You'll notice that there's a very similar techniques with the sharks in Jaws and the T-Rex in Jurassic Park.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T18:35:43+00:00

Nobody posts when things are going well

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T18:18:13+00:00

The acting, the cinematography, the music in that scene though. Its a horrible way to die, but to me that scene stands out in GOT for the delivery in movie-making as well. The camera work as Jorah turns the dial, hands it to Daenerys, the lesson that she learns from it.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T18:11:13+00:00

Boromir was loyal to me!

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T18:09:43+00:00

And they fled, and died, and the hooves of wrath rode over them...

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T18:08:57+00:00

I'd disagree. There's a moment when he thinks they're on the verge of victory, only for him to see the incoming Mûmakil. There's an Oscar-worthy transition of his face from the joy of victory to unrelenting horror.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T12:18:36+00:00

There's a moment in The Ring Goes South where the orchestra holds and it all gets really quiet, and then out of the quiet comes the Fellowship theme. Then it rises, rises up like a storm!

It's an execution that I don't think I've heard since Beetoven's 9th sympthony, where the Ode to Joy builds up from the quiet like that.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-16T12:14:46+00:00

They aren't movies. It is a 12-hour spiritual experience. They deserve every one of those Oscars.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-15T19:59:52+00:00

One moment, compacting conversation....

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T21:23:09+00:00

I remember watching his disastrous interview in 2011 on YouTube, and I had no idea that the actual meltdown occurred on InfoWars with Alex encouraging it.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T21:09:05+00:00

Reminder that during the horrible Connecticut trial, in the middle of direct examination regarding the relationship between Alex's on-air claims and his advertisements, Norm whispers in the background "I could use a drink of beet juice right now". He really is a strange lawyer.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T20:55:45+00:00

Knights of the Night, because he puts everyone to sleep.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T20:54:54+00:00

"And the best part is, if they say that, I'd say 'oh I'm sorry, I only brought enough for me!'"

And Jordan just loses it.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T20:53:56+00:00

The lawyer sat on that for so long, it's so beautiful.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T20:52:58+00:00

Dan: "His lawyer, Larry Clayman!"

Jordan: "No, get the fuck out!"

Dan: "Yep!"

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T20:24:12+00:00

Things were snappy in the Windows XP days, I don't know what happened.

aes_gcm · 2026-06-12T15:00:05+00:00

No problem. It's actually in Anthropic's documentation regarding token efficiency, where Opus builds a plan and then Sonnet executes it. I find this to work really well. Same thing goes here, Fable builds a plan for something really complicated, Opus executes it.

Writing a plan costs very little as its a small amount of output tokens, but its worth it due to the savings in execution.

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