Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 08/07/2025You don’t fear a gun; You fear a man with a gun. Likewise, you shouldn’t fear AI; you should fear dangerous men with AI. 080
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 07/07/202530% of Python code is now AI-generated. Meanwhile, many lawyers are still afraid to let AI draft a simple NDA. The difference? Software developers have automated tests. Lawyers don't (but they should). 🧵👇 (Make sure you see the demo in the post!) fullydoxxed.com/to-use-ai-la...fullydoxxed.comTo Use AI, Lawyers Should Steal This From Software Developers | Fully DoxxedSomething remarkable has happened in software development over the past few years. Large language models have revolutionized how code gets… 100
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 28/05/2025New Blog Post: Fuck! ChatGPT Really Is Ruining Writing (And I Told You So)! Two years ago I called this shit and now it's happening - ChatGPT is making "perfect language" and its signifiers low status. Polish now equals suspicious. Clean writing screams bot. fullydoxxed.com/fuck-chat-gp...fullydoxxed.comFuck! ChatGPT Really Is Ruining Writing (And I Told You So)! | Fully DoxxedTwo years ago, I tweeted this: And whaddya know, I was right. ChatGPT written words have so infiltrated human writing that what was once… 130
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Wild to me that there is a machine that gives you answers correctly 80% of the time, and makes stuff up 20% of the time and most of the time people don’t double check what it says. 000
Reposted by AllanGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/05/2025A historic moment as we witness the first American leading the Catholic Church. Hailing from Chicago, Pope Leo XIV ushers in a new chapter that I join those in our state welcoming in at a time when we need compassion, unity, and peace. 1375786753
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 05/05/2025New blog post: Some thoughts on how I use LLMs to write. It’s not about getting them to do your work but using them to help think through what you need to do. fullydoxxed.com/how-i-use-ll...fullydoxxed.comHow I Use LLMs to Write | Fully DoxxedYou've probably seen a lot of skepticism of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Claude on social media. Often, AI is seen as wor… 110
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 29/04/2025LLMs are definitely changing writing, but it goes both ways: if you don’t want to write you can outsource more and more of the work to LLMs. But if you want to write more and better, LLMs are incredible tools! 000
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 11/04/2025The U.S. did make something that the world wanted: stable financial assets with decent returns. We were amazing at that! 000
Reposted by AllanRadio Free America @radiofreeameri.ca · 19/03/2025Be Wrong More Often.rich.blogBe Wrong More OftenThe best product leaders share one counterintuitive trait: they're comfortable being wrong. They've calculated that the cost of waiting for certainty exceeds… 121
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 13/03/2025If you are a “creative” and you can’t figure out a creative use for cheap, imperfect talking machines, well, you suck at your job. 000
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 10/03/2025New Blog Post: fullydoxxed.com/will-agi-be-...fullydoxxed.comWill AGI Be a Mainframe or a PC? | Fully DoxxedI've been wondering lately about where AI is headed. Right now, we're seeing these frontier models – GPT-4, Claude, Gemini – getting more… 010
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 29/01/2025Excited to share my detailed technical writeup on building an AI-powered patent claim mapping system! Through careful training and evaluation, I developed a system that improved mapping accuracy from 57 to 86 on my evaluation metric. fullydoxxed.com/using-large-...fullydoxxed.comUsing Large Language Models for Patent Claim Mapping | Fully DoxxedFully Doxxed - Allan Niemerg 000
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Imagine if GenZ got as upset about bans on housing as they did with the ban on TikTok. 000
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025Jesus, I’ve seen what you’ve done for other people and I want that for me…. ta. Meta. Jesus, I want that for Meta. 000
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 19/01/2025I’ve always believed in Inbox Zero… Zero time spent on my inbox. 020
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 10/01/2025New post: Deep Funding Will Transform Open Source from Donation-Based to Fully Paid The volunteer model that built the internet is breaking. 60% of open source maintainers are unpaid hobbyists. Half have quit or considered quitting. A solution is emerging. 🧵 1/ fullydoxxed.com/deep-funding...fullydoxxed.comDeep Funding Will Transform Open Source from Donation-Based to Fully Paid | Fully DoxxedWhen the Log4j vulnerability was discovered in late 2021, Volkan Yazici worked 22-hour days to fix it. He did this work for… 100
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Introducing a patent prior art search tool that searches, maps, and ranks matches to your claims. Over the last few months I've built a tool that I'm excited for patent professionals to try out. You can test it today: patent-prior.art 230
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Is it just me or does it feel easier to get genuine interactions on Bluesky? The love you get on random replies is surprising. 030
Reposted by AllanMichael McLean @michaelmclean.me · 29/12/2024This feels like a flag delivered to Illinois from the year 3024. I want it, badly. Who is Stefan and how do I get a print? 511112
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Really something to watch a lot of my fellow internet-native millennials become their parents over AI. They will swear up and down that they dislike AI on the merits, but every generation says that. 100
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Solar energy is growing 26% per year while global energy demand grows 1.5%. Here's the wild part: If this continues, solar will power *everything* by 2044. And I mean everything - not just electricity. 🧵👇 150
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 15/12/2024It’s funny that no one talks about the Chinese room anymore. It fueled endless skepticism of AI, but was always obviously flawed. Now it’s dead and buried and no one will admit to having ever believed it. 010
Reposted by AllanEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 13/12/2024A whole bunch of systems that depend on effort being costly are going to be breaking. Academic journals are seeing this happen already. 1616921
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 23/11/2024I keep habitually clicking follow all for like every random science starter pack I encounter. I don’t even know what protein modifications are. 040
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Making RuBisCO more efficient sounds like a great way to accidentally create a future snowball earth 010
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 20/11/2024It’s wild that average intelligence is now an engineering problem. Need 100 bachelor-graduates of intelligence? That’s a quantifiable number of GPUs. 010
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 15/11/2024It’s nice to scroll a pleasant social media feed rather than subjecting myself to a relentless psychological warfare machine that knows exactly which emotional buttons to jackhammer until I’m a twitchy, rage-scrolling mess. 030
Reposted by AllanArnaud Bertrand @rnaudbertrand.bsky.social · 14/11/2024This is stunning: the UN now projects that in 2030, China's share of the world's industrial production will reach 45%, more than 4 times that of the US (11%) and more than that of all High Income Countries combined (38%). Source: www.unido.org/sites/defaul... 911840
Allan @niemerg.bsky.social · 08/11/2024The follow back culture on bsky has excellent early twitter vibes, so I am so deeply sorry for all the new followers I will disappoint with my posts. 0130