But what does it meeeeean?
Street art spotted today. It’s two blind (injured? crippled?) rats pointing to what used to be the night collection box of a bank that closed years ago. I have no idea what that means.
To change the subject, I was reading earlier about an unofficial plugin for Claude called Caveman, which makes the AI respond in the tersest possible terms. I asked Claude to explain it to me and it said “Why Use Many Word When Few Word Do Trick?”
It compared the result to the sort of language we used to write telegrams – “ARRIVE TUES STOP” – or classified ads. This is about reducing the number of tokens people who buy their AI in chunks have to buy.
In practice, the natural language mode of AI uses a tiny fraction of the tokens used in writing code or working through problems. Claude estimated a maximum 4% savings. And the language part is what makes it fun to talk to.
Have a good weekend, everyone!
Posted: July 10th, 2026 under personal.
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