JD Desmarais
Director of Pre-Sales, ProTech Services Group · Memphis
Twenty-four years in infrastructure. I run AI models on hardware I own, I like teaching people to use them, and I think AI is a tool, not a companion.
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AI news Nothing alarming in today's headlines so far.
Memphis A man grabbing a trick-or-treating girl and following children in a van on Halloween night is pulling today's mood down.
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Today's big stories
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The Wire
All 30 days- If in doubt, delete the uv.lock fileSimon Willison
- AI delivers 'zero financial payoff' to most companies, Apollo economist saysHacker News
- It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's chargeHacker News
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- AI agent swarms in Minecraft fail to build civilization, drown in bureaucracyHacker News
- The AI cost of JavaScript frameworksHacker News
- How We Took Over ChatGPT AccountsSimon Willison
- datasette-llm 0.1a9Simon Willison
- I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta couldThe Verge
Who's driving
I've worked in IT since 2002: network manager at Bellevue Baptist, systems engineer at ProTech Systems Group, datacenter and capacity planning at FedEx, and now pre-sales at ProTech Services Group. I run Qwen models on a Mac with MLX and LM Studio, and an NVIDIA Jetson Orin for edge projects. My wife Amanda and I have taught students at Bellevue Baptist for more than ten years.
Why dice81. Dice was my white 1988 Volkswagen Cabriolet on black tires. 81 is the year I was born. The gauges up top are a nod to its dash.