Benjamin Hause

@nocodecoder I haven't tried OpenCode or Kimi but I imagine it works about the same

@HauseBenjamin I'm working with OpenCode using Kimi. Claude Code is a little on the costly side for my taste just while I'm trying things out.

My longest standing no-code colleague has rebuilt his Nordcraft & Supabase app (built over 6 months+) from scratch in a week using Claude Code, Svelte, Shadcn & Convex. It's blown my mind 🤯. I've been v sceptical but having seen it with my own eyes, maybe it needs another look. He's not a coder but has worked with several no-code tools over recent years and is experienced at designing & building systems, which he says were essential skills to help him rebuild the app using AI. He says he's now a product manager and the actual programming/coding aspect is done by AI. The original app, built in Nordcraft (a no-code/visual development platform) was in-progress and he didn't think he could meet his March deadline using no-code, so he took the chance to spend time trying to build with AI to see if the reality matched the "hype". It was clear within a couple of days that he was building faster and got to parity with his no-code build in just a week. I'm not posting this to add to the AI hype, quite the opposite. I'm going to test this out myself over the next week or so to validate it, cos I just didn't believe it ... until now! I got into no-code to build applications faster than with code and, despite my initial scepticism, it proved to be correct. If AI enables us to build even faster than no-code then, regardless of my scepticism, I will need to adapt yet again. 😬

ICE just shot and killed a woman Minneapolis. A US citizen. How long before we say "Enough is enough?"

@haleyparkdesign really wonderful

new year new personal website ❤️ (re-uploading without the video bc i don't know how to not get it horribly compressed)

Imagine almost living long enough to reach the age of human immortality but then you die and just have to be reincarnated as a cockroach forever

Creation without a creator is meaningless.

@haoxingdu ya i noticed that too

I'm only 22 minutes in but it's quite painful to hear someone insisting so many times that something is "absolutely obvious". maybe it's not so obvious if your best way of arguing for it is by insisting that it is obvious

What we do for money, what we choose to build These say a lot about who we are I work hard every day because this is not the future I would like to live in

@louisvarge chickencredits.org

Just learned about a project @louisvarge is working on - you can literally pay people to switch from low to high welfare chicken and get receipts. Sounds really cool. Link below

New episode w @Lewis_Bollard - a deep dive on the surprising economics of the meat industry. 0:00:00 – The astonishing efficiency of factory farming 0:07:18 – It was a mistake making this about diet 0:09:54 – Tech that’s sparing 100s of millions of animals/year 0:16:16 – Brainless chickens and higher welfare breeds 0:28:21 – $1 can prevent 10 years of animal suffering 0:37:26 – The situation in China and the developing world 0:41:41 – How the meat lobby got a lock on Congress 0:53:23 – Business structure of the meat industry 0:57:42 – Corporate campaigns are underrated Available on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc (look up Dwarkesh Podcast).

@dshukertjr Another step towards being able to do everything in the dashboard:) can we edit the code though? That seems important lol

Write and deploy Supabase Edge Functions right from your Supabase dashboard! You can now tell Supabase AI to write an Edge Function. You can also deploy it with a click of a button, making it super quick to get started with Edge Functions!

@Oliver_S_Curry I haven't seen an argument for any normative ethical theory that didn't appeal to intuitions, so it sounds like your objection is to moral realism, not to utilitarianism in particular?

So the altruistic utilitarians project is doomed. There's no argument for it in principle; and it would not work in practice because altruism is an unstable strategy. Altruism leads to fewer altruists, and less altruism. Cooperation, meanwhile, does not face these problems <fin>

@JeffLadish You can want to do things *because* you care about other people. That's not selfish in any meaningful sense of that word!

I don’t consider myself an EA because I don’t consider my desire to help people “altruistic”. It’s what I want to do. It’s selfish. I don’t care if other people call that altruistic, but that’s not how I think of it

EAs who agonize about buying coffee vs bednets need to read Ayn Rand. People mad about EAs comparing Cathedral repairs to helping African children need to read [comment with your suggestions]

@simonsquibb To build a platform where people can help animals through a personalized subscription plan.

Funding one dream a day! What’s your dream?

@RichardHanania His particular argument doesn't work because you don't harm someone by giving them a good life they wouldn't have otherwise had. In general you can't "pick" different parents; that would just be choosing to have someone else exist instead of you.

Interesting

@captgouda24 The argument that you harm your children by giving them a life worth living (but not as good as a life a different child could have) is pretty implausible. (See the literature on the non-identity problem.)

Today I make the case that you should, if at all possible, have someone better than you be the biological parent of your kids

There's so much confusion about what "humane" labels on meat and eggs mean. To some they ensure the animals had a good life. To others they're totally meaningless. Neither view is accurate. And the confusion is largely the government's fault...

Not all meat is equal in the animal suffering it creates. A surprisingly good predictor of the suffering footprint of meat is its color. The lighter the meat, the worse the intensity and duration of suffering behind it. This is true for three separate reasons...