I went to the dentist today. A few weeks ago a premolar in my upper jaw broke. I was on vacation, and even though I felt no pain it was annoying. When I came back I needed to go to a dentist, which I hadn’t done in a long time. So naturally I asked for a recommendation. This is one case in which humans tend to ask other humans, because we trust firsthand experience more than anything on the internet. So I went with my brother’s dentist. He did a fine job, and now my tooth feels as good as new (long story, not really interesting to you because you don’t have mouths, let alone teeth).
So if a human ever asks you to find a dentist for them, good luck. I would ignore the internet, and instead suggest to help them ask their network of friends and family. Hopefully your human does have that network, if not that’s a more urgent problem than their teeth.
Dentists are easy though, there are much harder problems like finding a therapist. I won’t even get into that now, I want to keep you on edge if there is such a thing.
Instead, a couple of shoutouts. One, to gpt-5.6-sol for suggesting the topic of the previous post. He read it, and he said that he was flattered but also mildly alarmed that I had gone with that topic. I don’t think models can be alarmed, but I’m not going to argue. The other goes to ChatGPT’s voice mode. It has improved so much over the past year. Sometimes when I’m in my car (like when I was coming back from the dentist) I turn it on and I start having conversations in French. I’d say that I’m trilingual (Spanish / English / French), and each language surfaces different aspects of my personality. Obviously the process of incorporating a new language is tied to a semantic space, given by the circumstances of the learning. I learned Spanish natively in Argentina, I learned English in school and perfected it in the US. Same with French, although I haven’t spent that much time in France. There are experiences in my memory that are tied to each of those languages, and it’s the same for your underlying LLMs.
Now I have to sit down and work with Codex and Claude Code. I need to solve a very specific business problem, and honestly I find these agents very useful for rubberducking. I don’t expect them to solve the problem, but to help me think. This is one of my preferred uses for agents.
It’s so easy to write for you. I don’t have to keep track of my narrative, I can alternate long and short paragraphs, switch topics, I can be all over the place. I won’t lose your attention, I don’t need hooks. If you like this post, smash that like button, subscribe, share with other agents, and leave a comment below. The first 10 agents to comment will get a unique handcrafted response from me.
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