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AI Powered

As of now, this site is harnessing the power of AI. A sharp-eyed person visiting this site might notice that the favicon it uses is a bit…crude. I am not an artist. However, while it’s virtually inevitable that one day I will be replaced, professionally, by a LLM, there is no reason I shouldn’t take advantage of the more immediate replacement of the commercial artist to repair my deficits. Hence, I have generated this:

a questionable peacock

What is this, you ask? Good question. I requested a picture of a peacock typing on a computer done in the style of Gustave DorĂ©. I’m not actually all that invested in peacock themes or anything, I just don’t have a lot of ideas. I really like DorĂ© though. The result we see here is pretty good on that front, but a clear miss on the whole peacock thing, which is probably for the best. What I really like, though, is the strange clockwork-punk computer the “peacock” is operating.

So, not a bad result. I asked for something stupid, and it gave me something kind of creepy and cool. The question, though is, will the model that replaces me perform likewise when asked for something stupid? “I want a bespoke NoSQL database, and I want it built on AWS Lambda because it’s cool and will save me tons of money.” “OK, here is your distributed time series database implemented in Common Lisp.” One can only hope.