I know, a few weeks ago I wrote “the internet doesn’t need more words about AI”.

Since then, I started working at a company that considers AI as part of it’s toolkit for helping customers, contributed some code to an internal project that uses the Google Gemini API, and my first client project?

Helping write LLM policy.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’ve tried and failed a couple of times to write some sort of position statement in this space, that would capture a mix of hope and fear, while giving myself permission to keep learning and experimenting. I could probably have ChatGPT write it, but I’m not so far gone as to subject readers to machine-written prose.

I am giving myself that permission to learn and experiment, though. Program or Be Programmed seems newly relevant, and I think the closing words of LLMs Are Weird Computers captures the moment pretty well:

But I will say that if you don’t want to be caught with your pants down when your workplace does expect you to do more and different things with this technology, there’s no better time than now to start learning how to use it.