“Fig. 1.06: Initializing a variable to a new object, using a constructor, and realizing I was 30 years old when I wrote the first edition of this book, oh my god I am so old where did the time and my youth go!?”
Source: ServiceNow Development Handbook - 4th Edition: A compendium of ServiceNow "NOW" platform development and architecture pro-tips, guidelines, and best practices
“They say ghosts don’t leave fingerprints. Whoever said that never wrote code.”
Source: The Code We Break
“I waited in the kitchen and watched as a bright morning sun swept through the rooms. It would briefly catch on the part of the window that was not filthy, or a patch of carpet near the trim that had not been trampled by decades of stomping feet, and these things were transformed as if in some Cinderella story; dust particles shone like shooting stars caught in an upstream. I wanted to catch that light, to be purified in it and become a better version of myself.”
Source: The Rider on the Bridge
“Before they erase our memories,
I promise to find you in the code”
“Naskar Constitution of GenAI (Sonnet)
At times I'm hard on AI,
at times I'm lenient,
I have just one law on AI,
keep the human at the center,
and be transparent.
Use AI to empower life,
don't abuse AI to ruin life.
AI must orbit humanity,
not turn humanity into a lie.
Don't make the same mistake
with AI as organized religion did,
by destroying human agency.
Once out, AI is here to stay,
but there are meaningful ways
to use AI instead of cheap forgery.
AI may assist, when the human awakens;
machine may speak, what the mind has written.
After I'm gone, you're welcome to clone
my image and voice, but never put words
in my mouth that I've never written.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“I have just one law on AI, keep the human at the center, and be transparent.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Once out, AI is here to stay, but there are meaningful ways to use AI instead of cheap forgery.”
Source: Hazrat-e Humanity: The Uncultured Polyglot
“Transhumanism is terrorism, for it is the very antithesis of life. Wasting precious resources on a pompous, narcissistic and megalomaniacal dream of extending life through cold, mechanical means, instead of helping to improve genuine human condition, transhumanists act as modern day terrorists who desecrate the very spirit of life and liberty without ever being held accountable. Let me tell you as a brain scientist and a computer engineering dropout - transhumanism is to brain computer interface, what nuclear weapons are to nuclear physics.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“An engineers goal is to make himself obsolete.”
“Labor of AI (The Sonnet)
Asking AI to help you
write, is not writing.
Asking AI to tune your
voice, is not singing.
Asking AI to help you
paint, is not painting.
Asking AI to help you
code, is not coding.
Asking AI to help you
create, is not creativity.
Asking AI to build your
dream, is not dreaming.
Asking AI to narrate
books, is not storytelling.
AI oughta do manual labor,
so humans can do the creating.”
Source: The Divine Refugee