If you can spot AI content today....

[Brad]

Bloomberg Market Minute podcast (on Alexa) yesterday said many streaming companies were moving into live events.  Some of these at smaller venues like dinner theater stuff.  They believe people are looking for the whole experience when they go out. 

It remains to be seen if this really catches on, but if it does it could be a good time for theater actors. 

[littleman]

>pics on request

Yes, please.

[ergophobe]

Sora video of corporal talking to troops
https://youtube.com/shorts/4-2lkaQyq1Y?si=et3yuItQWtUfusp8

I keep wondering if the next generation of deep fakes will be videos using real actors and scenery and saying they are AI

[ergophobe]

https://youtube.com/shorts/JaFiUNmZoGM?si=jzwKqLkeR6O3yiSc

Note how the bear and the moose merge into a bear-moose at the end. Still, the start is pretty convincing

[rcjordan]

The anti-ai creatives on bsky are howling at the moon constantly. So much so that I'm filtering.  This is not a future existential threat for the various arts. It's here and its already entrenched. No putting this one back in the bottle.

>arts

AI 3d models are showing up quite often.

[ergophobe]

> creatives

If you are a "code is poetry" type and think of coding as creative (which I do) Simon Willison has some interesting pull quotes

"[Claude Code] has the potential to transform all of tech. I also think we're going to see a real split in the tech industry (and everywhere code is written) between people who are outcome-driven and are excited to get to the part where they can test their work with users faster, and people who are process-driven and get their meaning from the engineering itself and are upset about having that taken away."
— Ben Werdmuller
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/2/ben-werdmuller/

"[...] The puzzle is still there. What's gone is the labor. I never enjoyed hitting keys, writing minimal repro cases with little insight, digging through debug logs, or trying to decipher some obscure AWS IAM permission error. That work wasn't the puzzle for me. It was just friction, laborious and frustrating. The thinking remains; the hitting of the keys and the frustrating is what's been removed."
— Armin Ronacher
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/30/armin-ronacher/

In essence a language model changes you from a programmer who writes lines of code, to a programmer that manages the context the model has access to, prunes irrelevant things, adds useful material to context, and writes detailed specifications. If that doesn't sound fun to you, you won't enjoy it.

Think about it as if it is a junior developer that has read every textbook in the world but has 0 practical experience with your specific codebase, and is prone to forgetting anything but the most recent hour of things you've told it. What do you want to tell that intern to help them progress?

Eg you might put sticky notes on their desk to remind them of where your style guide lives, what the API documentation is for the APIs you use, some checklists of what is done and what is left to do, etc.

But the intern gets confused easily if it keeps accumulating sticky notes and there are now 100 sticky notes, so you have to periodically clear out irrelevant stickies and replace them with new stickies.
— Liz Fong-Jones, thread on Bluesky

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/30/liz-fong-jones/

Et cetera

[rcjordan]

Coding is a PITA.  Laying out the path to the end result is the art.

My bsky profile says "All my programming languages are dead" (to me). That's true.  But I still retain some knowledge of programming logic and some rough bits regarding html.  Combine the above with GPT-5 and a couple of million 1min fairy dollars and we can turn out some pretty awesome TM scripts.