Fall at Moose Lodge
Soon you will see deep into the woods and down to the meadow below.
It turned to fall like a flip of a spring-loaded switch here at Moose Lodge. One day it was 80-degree highs (26.6 C) and a cold front came through and suddenly the high was in the 60s (18.33 C) the very next day. Shelly, the box turtle that comes up every summer for her apple slices, won’t be seen again until next June. She’s made it up each summer for four years now. All of the wild critters around Moose Lodge are very busy as they all prepare for winter. The foxes cross the back yard like they are late for their meetings.
Fall is a beautiful time of year out here at Moose Lodge. It’s the wind and the sound of the crisp leaves. It smells like fall. The problem is, hunting season will soon start up, and all the deer that were regulars will soon be gone. While all the other animals have names like Kevin, Plywood, and Emma-Dillo, all the deer are equally named Lunchmeat. There is no point in getting fancy.
In addition to my role as CEO of Hudson Cloud, I start to think about what will happen at CES in January. It’s a very unusual year for us because this will be the three-year mark since LLMs went into wide use. Given the three-year product development cycle, this means that not only will AI be in products, many of the products themselves will be designed by AI. It could be one of the most pivotal CES events to ever happen, or it could be the biggest flop, and there is no great barometer on which will be which.
This will be the first year, out of sheer brute force caused by my writing everywhere, that I’ll also be there not only as the CEO of Hudson Cloud but also as a member of the media. I have GPT-5 to thank for that, as it helped me pull together my qualifications, verifications, and a summary of my work for my credential approval. This is after years of never meeting the criteria. Having over a million readers or views a month certainly helps, but it’s not everything. I built a whole folder of confirmational data to prove my qualifications.
I’m already reading all I can about the show and what to expect this year. I’m only confident that it will be different. I’m basically ignorant until I know. Between now and then, I’ve got a trip to Chicago and New York before Las Vegas, and a lot of discussion in between. I’ll have it together before the show and I’ll be writing on Substack like a madman with flaming fingers.