My DA(i)LLE adventures - by Sahil Mazmudar
A month ago I was laid off from Amazon Alexa as part of their latest org-wide reduction, and found myself with a lot more free time. Like, a lot more. It made me realize how much of our life we spend working, thinking about work, or the logistics around work. It’s pretty damn consuming. This break has made me think about the sort of things I really want to pour my time and energy into. I have some thoughts - but that’s for another time.
I journal sometimes and found myself scribbling away in my tattered WeWork notepad with this newfound extra time. I started a Notion document to summarize my daily activities to prevent the feeling of days blending into each other. At night I jot down 3-4 bullet points just to summarize the highlights of my day.
Lately, I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT and Open AI’s APIs, in particular DALLE-3 - Open AI’s image generation model. It’s an impressive tool and I’m always surprised to see what non-deterministic images it comes up with for certain prompts. This is where I thought I’d add some imagery to my recent adventures: generate a comic strip for my day-to-day.
