Codex is changing how I think about computers

There is no doubt we're living through a seismic change in how we interface with computers. I have spent the last 15+ years learning a craft, how to adminster and interface with Linux. But I'm starting to feel a shift in my own behaviours, which fills me with awe and simultaneously makes me deeply uncomfortable. I wanted to take a moment to share a slice of that journey with you today.

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Picture this. Sitting on the couch with my 5yo daughter watching a new favourite show of hers named "The Creature Cases". The episode starts playing, in Arabic. She squeaks. I have to put down Project Hail Mary during the penultimate chapter (the humanity!), to navigate the incomprehensible Apple TV Plex on screen menu system and select from one of 28! audio tracks.

"I should set up FileFlows or tdarr and really remove all those unneeded audio tracks" I think. Or maybe I can throw codex at the problem.

9 mins later (less than one episode), we're done. I didn't leave the couch or the kid and disappear into a sysadmin hole. I just spent the rest of the evening with my kid. Nice.

See below for a nuanced take on what I really think of AI as a whole. But isn't that kind of incredible? Like, actually though?

I didn't have to know anything about how the machine worked. This democractises technology in a way that few previous generations have experienced and man is that exciting.

I want you to know that AI was not used at all to write the text of this article. Just for the avoidance of doubt.