Generating AI Laughs with Daniel Feldman

Social media snark and rightfully criticizing industry trends? This episode of Screaming featuring Daniel Feldman must be a match made in heaven for Corey. Daniel’s wit is only matched by his engineering expertise, and his insights help us examine the current state of GenAI. This conversation breaks down how you can have fun with today’s AI tools, why product excitement can often hinder advancement, and even carries a tune with a bit of karaoke. As a bonus, Daniel indulges Corey about his signature conference attire. If you ever wanted to learn more about Mr. Quinn’s suit game, then this is the episode for you! Show Highlights: (0:00) Intro to episode (0:48) Who is Daniel Feldman (1:25) Backblaze sponsor read (1:51) Sounding off on social media (3:13) Having fun with AI (5:27) The origins of quackernews.com (6:36) Practical uses of AI (8:40) Enthusiasm vs. progress (12:30) AI’s online backlash (15:45) AI, slideshows, and karaoke (18:14) Firefly sponsor read (18:50) Tricks to prompting DALL-E (21:32) Markdown and software update naming (25:13) Exclusionary humor in tech (26:19) reInvent and Corey’s sense of fashion (28:32) Getting publicly recognized for Twitter posts (30:43) Where to find Daniel About Daniel Feldman: Daniel Feldman is working on new projects in the service identity space. He previously was an early engineer at Scytale and deployed SPIFFE service identity at over a dozen companies. Before that, he was a principal software engineer at Veritas. Links Referenced: quakernews.com Twitter: https://x.com/d_feldman Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/dfeldman.bsky.social Mastodon: https://hachyderm.io/@dfeldman SPIFFE: https://spiffe.io/ Solving the Bottom Turtle: https://spiffe.io/book/ Sponsors Backblaze: https://www.backblaze.com/ Firefly: https://www.firefly.ai/