It's now possible to take AI for granted.
... will likely get radically better from here. This means we can now take magical duct tape for granted. The disruption will come from a post-AI entity that takes AI for granted.
Topic: duct tape
25 chunks · 19 episodes
2.6x burst in 2024 Q1
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- duct tape appears in 25 chunks across 19 episodes, from 2023-11-27 to 2025-09-08.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 3/11/24 (2024-03-11), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms allow, vertical saas, and Amazon, while by chunk count it sits between huge amount and Twitter; its yearly rank moved from #55 in 2023 to #156 in 2025.
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Why do people contribute to Wikipedia?
...ere was one example where a particularly motivated user bought a few GoPros and duct taped them to a broomstick and then drove around his small island nation to collect panoramas. His nation was one that hadn't been prioritized by our offi...
A few stray thoughts on LLMs.
... have very different personalities. LLMs are a theory-of-mind in a box, magical duct tape you can put onto anything to help it interact with things in the people category. We tend to assume a human-style intelligence in systems we categori...
When conditions change significantly, the entity composed of building blocks has an edge over the monolith.
...ikely to be viable in whatever context is thrown at them. LLMs are like magical duct tape. Modular systems seem to have an edge in this new world. If you know the world will change but you don't know precisely how, modularize.
It's not possible to pick and choose the best characteristics of your peers and do them yourself.
...o them yourself. Best practices have to be grown in place, over time. You can't duct tape cultural practices willy nilly; they won't fit, and are often incompatible in non-obvious ways. The only thing to do is to set a direction and over t...