Journal: February 2025

February 2025 journal

Monthly retrospective

Still working on things related to the fishing industry.

I am barely keeping up with news about generative AI. Even keeping track of what to pick up and use in which situation is difficult.

• The AI-aided programming environment is improving rapidly. “Agents” are becoming increasingly useful, and the term vibe coding has begun to catch on.
• The bottleneck in the AI–human interaction loop is becoming more severe.

I started reading the Harry Potter series.

Journal

2025-02-26

Anthropic announced Sonnet 3.7 and Claude Code, and the next day Google announced Gemini Code Assist. Gemini Code Assist comes as a VSCode extension (similar to GitHub Copilot) and a GitHub App (for PR reviews).

2025-02-18

Seungjoon Choi coined the expression generative indigestion. It refers to the stage in the AI–human interaction loop where humans take in and understand information.

2025-02-14

Following OpenAI, Google, and DeepSeek, Perplexity has also launched Deep Research. And it’s free. Paid users get unlimited access. Now DR, too, has become a public good. We are moving toward a world where human laziness and intelligence are the bottlenecks (see Bottleneck of AI-Human interaction loop). When there is a bottleneck, we either 1) improve it until it is no longer a bottleneck, or 2) find a way not to depend on that resource (humans).

2025-02-11

I finished Out of my mind and plan to start Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone tomorrow. Even though I dislike J. K. Rowling.

2025-02-02

A conversation.

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• A: Why did you tell me to avoid this food?
• B: Because it’s bad for you.
• A: How is it bad for you?
• B: It has harmful effects on the body. For your information, I majored in nutrition.

Essentially a tautology followed by an appeal to authority.