5/6 In the morning, as I went swimming, I again parked my Jeep next to the other two Jeeps which are often there at that time, and which always park in such a way that you can see them as a pair from afar across the whole parking lot. One of them white and electric, the other yellow with a fierce black snout. When I came back after swimming, the two Jeeps were, unusually, still there, and I took a closer look at them. Among all the other ducks on the dashboards there was, in both Jeeps, in a prominent spot, a Trump duck, and it didn’t look like there was anything ironic to it. I was deeply disturbed by that. I had just finished my walk around the two Jeeps when their owners returned, a seemingly nice, young couple in their late twenties or early thirties. – I wouldn’t want to argue with them. I do not know a single Trump voter. I seriously want to know what they think.

5/5 What are the thoughts, the questions that keep me up at night? Are there any? What about questions that I devote my life to? Or some that I keep returning to? What if what I return to are not questions?

5/4 And to think that these language models only know the early twenty-first century, because publishers have prevented earlier things to be digitized.

5/3 As if over night everything turned so green that I no longer recognize the streets along which I am driving. The buildings, the lines of sight I used to orient myself have disappeared.

5/2 The ease with which this app got created, compared to the stubbornness of my brain to recognize some chords a few milliseconds earlier.

5/1 At the beginning of my piano practice I had myself an app generated that shows random chords for me to play. The app was done in five minutes, after which I still had about an hour to practice with it. Then I had it extended so it would track what I play and show whether it’s correct. Without me even asking it follows all sorts of jazz harmony rules, such as accepting rootless and shell voicings, and arbitrary chord alterations.

4/30 Voter notification card for November arrived.

4/29 Customer shows me the answer of their AI, I show him that of mine, and we follow the links to find out who’s right.

4/28 The mental load of just considering a problem, without even doing anything about it. You end up exhausted, but with nothing to show for it.

4/27 First time I used AI to program against some APIs I understood only vaguely. I do know: There is nothing fundamentally mysterious in them, only details I don’t need to fully untangle. If asked for advice what to study in my field so you’d be ready for the age of AI, I am tempted to say: Know everything I do, and then some.