David Zhou

Two thoughts: 1-This is mind blowing 2-Imagine if you could do this for your whole operating system and the apps in it. Live re-style my OS so all UIs look as if they were made out of steel, wood, glass, cartoon, etc. Just because why not.

I’m on week five of trying to vibe code a replacement for some dumb saas that we use and it’s so incredibly frustrating that I’m slowly realizing it’s actually a quite complex and thoughtful piece of software.

This is absolutely insane 🫠 People are yearning for a LOTR game like this. We’ve somehow normalized waiting 2 years for 6 episodes of a TV show and a decade for a game sequel. Imagine getting a new GTA game every year. AI will replace the bottlenecks, not human direction.

An alternate take on this whole thing: Asian cuisines are actually one of the most approchable ones for people with poor executive dysfunction! Soy sauce, mirin, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, chili crisp, etc are shelf stable and basically never go bad. Staples like dried noodles, rice, can live in your pantry forever too, and frozen veg and protein that you'd add anyway makes things really easy Meanwhile pretty sure even my dried herbs amount to vaguely plant-like flavors when i use them now...

Love Asian cuisines, but they absolutely are the worst to cook at home. You have to buy 44 ingredients to make one dish and it’s not something you’ll want to have more than once a week. Extremely time intensive and best left to the experts. I took a Vietnamese cooking class once and the ingredient list to make it at home looked like a scroll.

People are dunking on this but he’s right. “Sesame noodles” isn’t the kind of meal you eat everyday for a week or meal prep. At most you’re eating this once a week. And with this approach to grocery shopping, you have to multiply this shopping load by seven to cover a week. The key is finding recipes with mix and match ingredients that aren’t so specific to a meal. If something requires chili peppers or fish sauce or cilantro— I’m not making it. At least not unless it’s an event. If you care about helping people eat well from home, you should advise them about how to prep one ingredient proteins and veggies that taste good with salt/pepper/butter/olive oil.

This is what I've been saying since the summer. We are in the middle of software engineering's productivity crisis. LLMs inflate all previous productivity metrics (PRs, commits) without a correlation to value. This will be used to justify layoffs in Q1/Q2 of this year.