Working Up

by Dwayne Phillips All this computing power, datacenters, rising prices for hardware, land, water, electric power, etc. for what? To plan a party? This is utter waste. Come on, stop it! Wired recently had an article on the full story of OpenClaw (is that the name they eventually decided to use?). That is the agent […]

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by Dwayne Phillips The world of computing has turned upside down. In 2001, Marc Andreesen noticed and noted, “Software is eating the world.” Here I am to notice and note, “Hardware is the new software.” Everyone wants to buy computer hardware. Prices of computer hardware are shooting upwards as demand far exceeds supply. If you […]

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by Dwayne Phillips These chattering bots merely predict the next N word(s). Software has been doing this for many years—nothing new here. In the 1990s (yes, 30 years ago, I am that old), word processors started guessing what word we were trying to type. Some called that “auto complete.” It was nice. Not perfect, but […]

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by Dwayne Phillips I just had a chattering bot filter through layers upon layers of a spreadsheet and provide the answer. After a moment, I realized I could have written a simple program to do that, but that was true for me, not everyone. I just solved a problem with data presented in a spreadsheet. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We have a new twist on the old excuse, “My dog ate my homework.” That excuse about the dog and the homework goes back to 1905 (some sources report, but then again, there may be earlier instances, but the dog ate the stories and …). John Steinbeck even said that his dog […]

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by Dwayne Phillips We never run out of excuses. Well, if we ever come close to the end of the list, we can add AI. Microsoft had a mistake. No worry as mistakes can be corrected. The source of the mistake? Well, people are always the source of mistakes, but now we can blame AI. […]

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by Dwayne Phillips AI capabilities are increasing fast. Too fast for some of us. What do we call this? This past week, Anthropic showed people what Mythos could do. WOW! That is amazing. Why only a few months ago… Where were we way back then? And, by the way, how do you pronounce Mythos? There […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Big iron is back. The mainframe is back. And we hate it more now than ever. A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… well it was 1979, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and a friend of my father worked for the computer company of America (IBM). He walked me through the […]

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by Dwayne Phillips History repeats itself as the computer can be fully occupied by the efforts of just a few programmers. There was a time in computing history when there were few programmers. The computers weren’t powerful. A couple of programmers could keep a big computer busy all the time. Then the computers became more […]

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by Dwayne Phillips Every now and then we need a new scapegoat, i.e., something that receives the blame for all the faults and mistakes of society. We have one. Ah, the datacenter. It is big, noisy, ugly, and raises my electric and water bills. I hate it. It is the cause of all ills in […]

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