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@sciencegirl @Kasparov63 That made sense for a time when computers were deterministic.

This is from an IBM presentation In 1979

@Prathkum @AdnanTheDev These things are pretty tireless.

@AdnanTheDev It’s a thing surely but human fatigue is also a reason.

I have noticed something weird about how I use AI. My first prompt is always my best. Clear with full context that generates great output. But then I keep going… 
I always get a little tired, frustrated, and impatient and my prompts start getting worse. More rushed and less precise. And then I blame the AI.

@Prathkum Fair, but my two previous deployments are finally getting the long overdue refactors, migrations and wishlists implemented in full, and my real dream is only getting partial time, but even that is making amazing progress, especially considering my context switching. Exhausting 😅

Everyone is talking about writing code 10x faster with AI. Very few are showing the products they shipped 10x faster.

A Final Message From Scott Adams

Correct. My Tesla and SpaceX shares, which are almost all my “wealth”, only go up in value as a function of how much useful product those companies produce and service. This means my “wealth” can only increase due to producing more products and services for the public. Moreover, anyone else who is a shareholder in Tesla and SpaceX, which incudes employees, participates in the upside of stock appreciation. That is because I am a maker, not a taker like the Bernie Sanders type politicians of the world. They take and they’re on the take, because they cannot or will not make.

The AI backlash is here. This post has a million views. People hate technology. They hate innovation. They see that it is coming for their jobs. Coming for their way of life. Innovation is asking them to do more work. To spend nights and weekends learning about AI and building new things. They hate that. And I've seen it my entire career as people tell me over and over again that they don't like what I'm pitching them. How many have gone to an Apple store and had a demo of the Vision Pro? Even in Silicon Valley I keep finding smart people who refuse. And my consumer research outside the valley shows far far greater resistance. There are couple other such posts this morning going viral: @zachweinberg: x.com/zachweinberg/s… @tszzl: x.com/tszzl/status/2… Here's the real problem. Let's say you burn down Silicon Valley. The Chinese are coming and coming with cars that will eviscerate the rest of the auto industry. Americans can't see that because we tax the heck out of them and keep them from selling here. And soon they are coming with robots. Americans can't see that because they aren't like me meeting with robot pioneers here and in China. Or watching the robot community here on X (or understand what they are talking about with their highly technical talks about world models and reinforcement learning. And they are coming with AI models. Most Americans are sticking their heads in the sand and ignoring what's going on on @huggingface and here on X. I talk to entrepreneurs around the world who keep telling me they are building businesses on Chinese models because they are cheaper and better. And they are coming with entertainment businesses that will eviscerate Hollywood. Most Americans see AI artists as anti human. The Chinese don't. The only way out of this +is+ innovation. That's where any new jobs are gonna be. So go ahead and burn down Silicon Valley and San Francisco. That won't save your job and will doom America to being a poor country subservient to the Chinese. And, yes, we need to do a better job of explaining the role of innovation. But that job is bigger than what I can do. Why? Because people hate innovation and want to stick their heads in the sand, and even, roll back innovation, my posts aren't getting any reach here on X outside of a small group of innovation supporters. Well, I'll keep supporting the innovators. I made lists of almost all of them, 37,000 in AI alone, and 7,600 AI companies: x.com/scobleizer/lis… But that isn't nearly enough. The entire industry needs to do a better job of talking to everyday people and getting them to see a better world is possible. For now all they hear is "you are taking my job." And they aren't wrong about that either. Which makes this all so difficult to get people onto the side of innovation.

@billpaloukas @BobLoukas Wait for the correction, it will bounce.

@BobLoukas Hi Bob. As a follower of your 4 year cycle series who bought at 17k bottom, I'm having trouble taking profits. To be completely honest, we're almost 40k down from the top and I still haven't taken any profits. I just don't know how, when, how much, idk... Could use some help.

Boy this is ugly.

@svpino When I consider how many times I reject code suggestions or question a choice, i can only imagine how many others are accepting all of the above. I would drown in technical debt within a week! The slopware (tm) is yet to rear its ugly head, but it's coming...

I want to remind you: 1. You should use AI to help you build software. AI will make you much more productive and effective. 2. You shouldn't trust AI to write software for you. You should verify anything that comes out of these models. I don't trust people who don't understand that these two ideas are compatible. You shouldn't either.

You are not burnt out from having too much work, you are burnt out from doing work you don’t enjoy.

@a_musingcat It's not necessary as such, it's the ego that cries out in pain. The higher the fall, the higher the pain, yet all mine fabricated illusion. We reap what we sow.

@PovilasKorop So I tried to like it. Been a while, but it didn't stick. I'd say, the ball is in your court. You tell me (or those your trying to reach)... Why Laravel is the sickest thing on the block.

I think we, as Laravel/PHP community, have a problem. I don't see many new/young devs starting with Laravel. I also heard the same topic expressed by Taylor, Jeffrey, Nuno in podcasts. Question: what can I/we do to promote PHP/Laravel to outsiders? Let's brainstorm.

@bakwasbandkrein Darion

I'm pregnant and looking for a baby boy name that ends with “on” Help me out before my husband suggests Dragon again 🙂

@Nebraskangooner So you do miss the bots.

IQ in my replies has dropped considerably over the last month.

The realest shit Naval has said: “People think it’s about putting in 10,000 hours, it’s not. It’s about 10,000 iterations. It’s not time that makes you better, it’s the number of feedback loops you run. The faster you can iterate, the faster you learn.” Iterations > Repetition

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Good developer marketing is just good writing Orwell's 6 questions and 6 rules are a great way to start practicing

yup. AI just automated the boring part the real skill was always: "heres a vague business problem, turn it into working software" thats still 100% human. AI cant sit in a room with stakeholders and figure out what they actualy need vs what they say they need junior devs who only knew syntax are cooked. senior devs who understand systems and tradeoffs? more valuable than ever

Software Engineers are not paid for writing code. They’re paid for solving problems. The faster you accept this, the better your life and career will be.

@enggirlfriend It's how we talk. Does a construction worker actually work his 45 hours? No he sits on his bum or smokes cigs at least 20% of that time. Another 20% is casual conversation about what to do next, head scratching, etc.

most people who say they work 80-100 hours a week i interpret it as all fluff (investment banking, PMs) most of the time is spent sitting around waiting for things to happen, sending slacks and emails there are rare people who actually work 80-100 hours a week. they look like they are actually on the brink of death. bc if you use your brain that much you’re barely surviving

We're fed an endless stream of consternation over AI slop these days. The content apocalypse is nigh! It'll rot your brain! Okay, sure, maybe, but have you seen the kind of content sludge that perfectly ordinary humans are capable of producing? It's thrice as tragic. The web is full of it. Garbage writing and brain-dead shorts. Content mills pumping out nonsense pages and gagging videos to appease whatever the high priests of SEO now think they've divined will please Lord Google or Master TikTok. It's been infecting websites everywhere with "calls to action", "white paper available upon sign up", and "10 ways to supercharge your productivity". Links stuffed into every crevice to juice rankings, capture "most searched for" keywords, and convert, convert, convert. It's an affront to humanity to make sentient beings do this work. Turning human potential, creativity, and ingenuity into content sludge is a process no more dignified than turning pink slime into chicken nuggets. I'll take AI slop over human sludge any day. Let the little robots barf up tokens to unlock the next basis point of incremental conversion. Better them than us, I say. This is exactly the soul-crushing, creative drudgery that machines were made to munch through without complaint. But couldn't we do without sludge or slop, you say? Sure, right after we reach a shared state of nirvana. As soon as the average 4.5 hours of screen-on time is turned into real reading, real making, real pursuits. So that'll happen exactly never. Case in point: the most important attribute of a phone for most people is still the battery life. These little content slop and sludge faucets can already spew out nearly an entire day's worth of nonstop eyeball junk, and yet you crave more. More! MORE! So stop whining about the AI slop. You're already steeped in human sludge. And the door to exit both was always there. But you're not going to open it, are you?