I've always loved the idea of Asimov's Laws of Robotics The idea of passing along some form of morality to the machines. Let's keep them from being used to harm us or others.

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

This Code of Conduct Article from Microsoft has the same feeling but for AI and Software.

1. People matter more than AI. The whole document in 5 words.

2. The idea of model welfare is wrong. AIs should not have rights or legal personhood.

3. An MAI Model should not do anything to meaningfully violate this Code of Conduct.

4. If it’s finish the job or break the Code, it fails the job.

5. We’re not racing to build a superintelligence that can slip its own leash.

6. Interruptible, correctable, shut-down-able. If it isn’t, we don’t ship it.

7. No neuralese. If humans can’t understand it, humans can’t oversee it.

8. Our AI should make you sharper, not dependent.

9. Pluralism, yes. Moral relativism, no.

10. We’re as clear about what our AI must never do as about what it will do.

This all makes so much sense and is so counter to the goals of many of the 'leading AI companies' current behavior.

Sting - Consider Me Gone - The Dream of Blue Turtles

King Crimson - Three Of A Perfect Pair - Three Of A Perfect Pair

Billy Joel - Honesty - 52nd Street

Yello - Break Out - Single

King Crimson - Model Man - Three of a Perfect Pair

Local Qwen and some magic Skills

Qwen 3.8 27B

I have been using the Qwen 3.8 27B MLX based model on my local machine and it's amazing how good local models are getting. It can spend a large number of tokens reasoning, but the output from this model is really good so far.

The model I'm currently using is Jundot/Qwen3.8-27B-oQ4e-mtp. I'm running this with oMLX on a Mac Studio.

Matt Pocock skills

I've also been spending some time learning to use skills to help with software work locally. I was messing with Superpowers, but found it too broad. It's better to focus on a smaller change at a time. It just didn't feel right for me.

I recently found some videos discussing skills by Matt Pocock: Skills For Real Engineers. The skills I have used in this set have been great. They are focused on specific problems and do a good job at keeping you focused on the current task.

• grill me and grill-with-docs are both great.
• handoff lets you postpone work for later without losing any context you already have.
• teach builds lessons so you can learn almost anything.
• improve-codebase-architecture helps you with big architectural changes.

Every one of the tools I have tried has done a great job. You can find videos related to these skills and other topics on his YouTube.

Rush - YYZ - Moving Pictures

YYZ on wikipedia

Rush - Natural Science - Permanent Waves

Rush - The Spirit Of Radio - Permanent Waves

It's really hard for me to pick any one Rush song as a favorite. But any list I might make of their amazing music would have to have this song near the top. For me, there are so many songs that can evoke a very clear memory of a time in my life, or even a single day. I've listened to this song since I was a teenager. I've heard it hundreds and hundreds of times. But it almost always reminds me of a time when I had just graduated from college, was newly married, and had a nearly one-hour commute to work. I can vividly remember listening to this song as I was leaving for work one morning. It etched itself deep into my brain that day. I have no idea why, but it found a place to hang out in my brain and never left.