Whenever you see people saying wild shit on here, remember that humans invented the idea of hallucinating facts.
It’s called lying.
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Kyle Aster
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Kyle Aster
@kneath
Vibing in the discontinuous singularity. One of those fuck-arounder and find-outers. Opinions are my own and do not express those of non-canonical dimensions.
The Mountains Katılım Ocak 2007
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@Shpigford Most people who used joyent never understood what joyent did. We were just copy and pasting things into our terminals.
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@kneath i don't even remember what joyent did but i 10000% remember that website.
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Out here spinning up VPS's and running commands I have no understanding of like it's 2005.
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I've been working on describing how I've been building new things with LLMs — loosely based off @rjs shaping approach. I call it my product builder. It works really well for me.
github.com/kneath/product…
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does no one deal with decades of PDF files? why is everyone recommending obsidian?
i don't need text editing. i need file storage with an substantial OCR + indexing + search layer.
there's basically *zero* native raw text here.
Josh Pigford@Shpigford
evernote is doubling the price of my subscription to an arguably insane price, even for a PE-acquired business. we've got 15+ years of docs stored there (huge % are scanned PDFs). trying to figure out my move here. i don't want another note taking app. i kind of just want a vault for dumping all our random document files (again, mostly PDFs) that's thoroughly indexed/searchable. big caveat: needs to be also be easily shared with my wife. wonder if there's something there from a biz perspective? 🤔
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Software has become so impoverished in the product design front over the past two decades no amount of engineering can possibly make a difference in the end result to users.
Everyone got so consumed with making their companies financial products, they forgot the whole point of the enterprise. That’s the real bottleneck.
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its obviously not true in absolutes, but its close enough that its worth understanding that maybe this isnt an exponential improvement to generalized productivity. at least in the case of engineering.
BONESAW 🕊️@BonesawMD
Everyone has been 'vibe coding' for like 2 years with this 'insane' tool and there are still 0 (zero) notable game changing products that compare to what dedicated humans created in their basements prior to AI. Anyone w/ expertise in any subject immediately realises how overrated it is for giving you anything beyond the most basic information in it. If you can legitimately write, any writing produced by an LLM is a disgusting insult to all of your senses. Good for the boring and tediously repetitive tasks + organising information, but still so unreliable and far away from what Silicon Valley keep trying to shill us.
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A friend turned me onto this short a few days ago. In case you ever wondered why I live in the mountains and treasure our public lands so much…
vimeo.com/198061884?fl=p…
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There's a discontinuity right now in how people are experiencing this whole AI-built-software thing. Some of us came to this game to write code. Some of us came to the game to make our computers do weird stuff.
Neither are right or wrong (you need both to build a successful commercial enterprise), but for a couple of decades we've been on the same team out of necessity — even when it didn't need to be a commercial thing.
Now we kind of don't need each other, but we're still in the same room.
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Another round of PR madness (the Dawkins thing) and a month since the digital god Mythos was going to end humanity.
Could it be that Mythos is just a new, better model? A much more sophisticated tool from a company working hard to build tools?
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As we all become inundated with Anthropic’s PR machine ramping up, it is worth remembering that we have almost no ability to define intelligence, consciousness, or free will. For anyone. Or anything.
Read some Descartes, get into psychedelics. Enjoy the ride.
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I really enjoyed Search Engine's take on what it means to "replace" drivers with AI. Happy to see other people in the world who love context and difficult problems.
I get frustrated with so much talk about AI "replacing" humans because we've been doing that for centuries (the lamplighters!) and we've never reconciled what "jobs" mean in our modern capitalist society. Is it in service of real work? Or a social contract so we can pay rent?
searchengine.show/are-you-a-good…
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TUIs are not good sorry yall
a CLI is a utility, and situational. this should not be confused with stuffing a full interactive GUI into a low capability platform.
"lets ignore all the great UI technology of the last 20 years and build some caveman shit"
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Accidented into having dinner with one of my idols last night and still pretty jazzed about it. A good reminder to keep showing up.
Get after it.
youtube.com/watch?v=f4c2nA…
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I see so many people saying they're burning tons of tokens on agents "understanding" their app, and I have to wonder: have you asked the agent to write docs + design patterns for your app?
An incredible number of problems can be solved this way w/ LLMs. They're little context goblins.
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@zeeg Easiest trick I know for smaller milk volumes is to accept that you need to throw out half the milk you're steaming. Way easier to steam 2-3oz than 1oz, pour half down the sink, then pour your drink.
Also get a smol pitcher! I like this one amazon.com/dp/B0BZHSSB1M?…
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As frustrating as it is to see what GitHub has become, it’s still incredibly rewarding to have built something that people connected with at such a deep level.
❤️ @mitchellh
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Sometimes I kind of wonder if @github is nerd sniping me into creating a new GitHub after a decade or two of being out of the game.
Here’s my suggestion to those who remain:
- Data integrity is non-negotiable
- Code should render
- PRs should render
- Issues should show correct counts
- Login link should render in <300ms
- Login flow should work
- Registration flow should work
- It’d be great if it worked on bad connections, at all
Maybe add a new zen of GitHub, “It’s not a product if it doesn’t work”
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@no1089 @mattzcarey Another time! I had a tremendously great time, happy to come back to Portugal!
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