"Polls consistently show that a majority of readers prefer physical books over Kindles, often citing the tactile experience, smell, and visual satisfaction of bookshelves, with studies showing around 65%–75% preference for print."
The commitment to printed books is a great litmus test for the preference for an AI-everything economy.
A Kindle is far less obnoxious than what AI produces and has tremendous benefits over physical books. Yet, 65-75% of people pass on it, choosing to remain committed to print.
This a pretty important indicator that it doesn't matter how much "better" technology purports to make life, humans have a very low tolerance for things that feel fake.
For most people, technology should aid and supplement the human experience, not be the vast majority of the human experience.
We'll know more about the true potential of AI once we see how the general public handles the AI fatigue that's emerging. It doesn't matter how good it gets if everyone is sickened by it.
Something tells me that people don't want an AI-everything culture. They want real media, real film, real interactions, real social media, real craftsmanship, etc.
AI could very easily become stigmatized. People may end up hiding their use of it just as eagerly as they currently glaze it.
I think I'm going to advise against my kids getting their wisdom teeth taken out. I wish I hadn't gotten mine out. I feel duped. Why would God have us all grow teeth that need to be taken out?
The influx in DJ and producers over the last 10 years just makes the scene even cooler. It just shows how many people are super fans of the music. It still takes years and dedication to become a master still, and it’s our job to educate not discourage.
@TheGoldenShells@f8daca839edb4db@neekojenkins@ohnohedidnt24@natfluential Agree on all of the above. I find it hysterical that Kerr is suggesting shortening the season, then you look at the NHL and those guys play a far more physical sport and there's never any mention of taking games off the schedule.
@Bobby0891@f8daca839edb4db@neekojenkins@ohnohedidnt24@natfluential It’s funny when you don’t play by the rules this is what happens to your sport. For starters they need to enforce traveling penalized flopping and enforce palming. If you had to play the games by the rules it would slow down the game and make it more enjoyable.
Steve Kerr:
"We need to play fewer games. We need to take 10 games off the schedule. The modern game with the pace and the space I think it would be a more competitive and healthier league if we played fewer games"
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@StubHub I sold a ticket last Friday and received an email stating that there was a buyer issue and that I will be charged a penalty. I sent all info required to resolve the issue, but your support team says I will be penalized. Why?
@thekevingeary Stop with the gear mongering. AI will soon replace full stacks. Explore, learn, and take full advantage of what it currently provides and what it will provide in the future.
Turning your full work output over to AI is a massive gamble, for multiple reasons.
One, there's no guarantee that it can do everything you need it to be able to do, especially in its current state.
Two, there's no guarantee that you won't get stuck in a situation that it can't fulfill, leaving you powerless to step in because it's done too much of the project already and you have no idea how things work under the hood.
For skilled devs, the ONLY guaranteed outcome right now is that you'll get far dumber, and you'll lose all the dev skills, abilities, and experience you've worked so hard to acquire up to this point.
That is a 100% guaranteed fact. Removing yourself from the practice of dev makes you progressively more irrelevant each day that goes by.
In fact, this actually might be the first time in human history where an entire industry of highly technical people willingly raced from the top of the skill ladder to the bottom of the skill ladder.
They seem to be doing this because they believe in a world where AI progresses to the point of being autonomous and nearly flawless. But in that world, they're no longer really needed anyway, so what's the point?
They also seem to believe that the costs won't skyrocket, which is a third gamble.
What happens if costs do increase frantically, though (knowing that all the AI companies are currently taking massive losses)?
If AI doesn't pan out exactly the way people hope and we find ourselves in a world where the best (and most affordable) approach is actually a hybrid, AI-assist approach to development, what will all the people who turned their entire workload over to AI do at that point?
And how will all the products built by cheap AI get maintained in a world where AI is now far more expensive?
Conclusion 1: Going full-AI undoubtedly retards your actual skills. That's a huge PERSONAL risk that relies on some big gambles.
Conclusion 2: Building and selling products where iteration and maintenance require agents at the currently untenable cost structures is a huge risk to you and everyone you sell to.
Conclusion 3: The most responsible thing is to remain in command of the code. Take a hybrid approach. Stay engaged with the practice of development. Maintain your skills. Engineer your products properly.
For the people who didn't have many skills to begin with, we see why you're so hyped. You couldn't do something before, but you can seemingly do it now. You feel a newfound sense of empowerment and like you cheated the process of having to learn.
That's great. Have fun. But stop trying to convince people who have acquired tremendous skill to abandon those skills when the actual consequences and outcomes of that decision are completely unknown and terribly risky.
And remember, a lack of skill in the thing AI is doing means the person also lacks the skills to assess whether the AI is truly capable of it.
Right now we have a lot of people who aren't very skilled trying to assess the skills and abilities of AI. Dunning-Kruger is still a very real thing.
Be careful out there.
@Bobby0891@thekevingeary You bring GSAP to a post related to a CSS framework with a condescending tone 😅. Sounds like a message from a hater to me, but sadly it’s not relevant to this post.
Sneak Peek: Stagger Animate Words in a Heading 👀
You can do A LOT with ACSS’ new effects library. Here’s an example of how I can easily and quickly stagger-animate every individual word in a heading (with a little help from Etch).
Enjoy.
@thekevingeary Are you aware of anything going on in web design outside of WordPress and your little Etch echo chamber? Everything about you is tired and dated.
@Bobby0891 A CSS framework does CSS big guy. The point is that this is dependency free. And no, this isn’t basic by any means. Why are you hiding behind an anonymous profile?
Fans in Mexico are angry that Italian DJ and producer Marco Carola played for less than 2 hours at an 8 hour party where he was the headliner. This is especially frustrating because he walked off stage for 10 minutes during his set.
@KariposReal@WPMoree@wpcontent_co Okay, he has made a ton of sales, great. He has found an audience that can stomach his rhetoric. What I'm trying to drive home for you is that agencies and top-level devs want no part of his "drama." Comprehend?
@Bobby0891@WPMoree@wpcontent_co Because of his "face" he's already sold a ton of his popular plugins and built a big circle community where people pay monthly. His face is literally making money, lil bro. Drama is also marketing, and it sells.
Automattic, the company behind WordPress .com, has sent a legal notice to Kevin Geary, the creator of Automatic.css, over the use of a name that the company says is “nearly identical” to its own.
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@KariposReal@WPMoree@wpcontent_co You honestly believe feelings don't factor in? Messaging and how 'the face' of any brand conducts themselves plays a vital role in creating, maintaining, and scaling a product. Top agencies want quality tools and results, not some unhinged 'face' knocking everybody else down.
@Bobby0891@WPMoree@wpcontent_co The only one making drama is Matt, and millions still use WordPress. Kevin isn't creating problems—he's calling them out. Agencies judge tools by results and quality. Your feelings don't factor in.