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It’s like this everywhere all at once. The bullshitters have won at natural selection.

I’m sure there are some good AI products but the vast majority seem to be garbage. The exception is coding agents and simple web text/image interfaces.

So yeah, as a signal the AI brand is about as bad as it gets. Crypto tier. But just like crypto, the investors want to see that signal regardless of any underlying substance.

Claude is somewhat of a mirror, so we all get different experiences.

You sound like my father when someone mentions green beans

I accidentally learned how disgusting people’s mouth noises are while developing an audio leveler. The lip smacking and snot noises between sentences are the stuff of nightmares if you don’t do anything to exclude them from amplification.

The best approach I could come up with was to maintain a sliding histogram of loudness and exclude the low-level outliers.

You can do more in the noise/frequency domain but those were outside the scope of this tool.

I’ve found that agents are obsessed with adding more lines of code. Even when asking them to simplify they’ll remove 50 lines of code and then add 100 more. You have to explicitly tell them you want less lines of code. So I just do that after iterating on a task for a few steps.

That’s too strong of an assertion.

Local models aren’t deterministically equivalent in capabilities to foundation models. Home computers are turing complete; just like a mainframe. They are just slower. Often not slower enough to matter.

I would imagine nearly every programmer who has ever used a DAW has thought “this would be cool to have its own scripting language.”

They already had Python. Mentioning an architecturally obvious idea in a job application is likely to read as insulting, because it presumes their engineers weren’t already aware of that possibility.

It is definitely a different type of stress. I used to lock in on one problem in deep work. Now it’s a constant juggling of 7 problems. It feels good to close one out, but your other 6 keep you perpetually locked in the stress loop.

You know nothing about my metabolism.

My hunger feels 8 trillion times worse than an obese person’s. Since I am making the claim, everyone else has to affirm it now.

But it is factually true that it’s a matter of willpower, no amount of reframing it is going to change that.

It’s not like others like myself, currently on a cut cycle, don’t experience hunger. The idea that we are just “lucky” ignores all the willpower and discipline we fight through to do it ourselves.

I’ve eaten about 800 calories today and it is 4pm. Just finished 90 minutes on the indoor bike. My stomach feels hungry. I experience that and just sit with it. That is the difference.

Interesting read. In modern life almost everyone experiences at least a brief if perhaps isolated/niche version of fame. We are just so heavily connected in so many different networks, it just statistically is likely to happen at some point.

It is a mixed bag for sure, but in terms of risk/reward it is best to have an accurate understanding of both sides so you can make damn sure you are optimizing for the right thing.

Not a single person “knows” the bubble will pop.

Many think it will.

I think the agent mode stuff only works well on trivial projects. But the top tier models can be very productive with carefully constructed prompts and manually curated contexts for large mono repos.

Even never touching or being in the same room as cannabis does not per se prevent psychosis

Theres this pattern where you make your wealth off dubious means, then one day become born again and start a new life where you gain more popularity and influence by speaking out against the reason you have a megaphone at all. These people interestingly never give away that naughty wealth they now regret so much.

Social media is becoming less a place to communicate with people and more just a place to navigate the hierarchy of potential conversations.

I think it is reasonable to expect privacy when reading social media. Not so much when posting routinely to millions of people while claiming to be some non-anonymous person you aren’t.

Does the distinction not make sense from your perspective?

If you disagree with my opinions, it means you aren’t as smart as me.

It is exhausting deciding which model to use on any given day.

Everything good enough to become popular gets swarmed by the teeming masses and then exploited and destroyed.

The only solution seems to be to constantly abandon those things and move on to new frontiers to enjoy until the cycle repeats.

It sounds patronizing to me.

But Gemini also likes to say things like “as a fellow programmer, I also like beef stew”

The only really incredible VR experience I have had so far was Half-life Alyx. Is there anything that tier or even better these days?

Got any idea what sort of tech you’ll mess around with?

Is this a digital reader? My readings were always high both at the doctors and at home. Bought an old school analog cuff and stethoscope, now it’s like 120/70 almost every time.

It was apparently the lack of control and the whizzing motor. Having direct fine control over the pump is downright relaxing in comparison.

I’m mid 40s and took the other route. I was self-taught and decide long ago that I never wanted to manage other people. So instead now I run a small solo audio company. Never have to deal with anyone but my own customers. I consider it a craft not a startup.

It isn’t for everyone but whatever LLMs end up being for us all, in this position they seem more likely to be an asset than a liability. If they are good enough to replace me then they can be my army.

LLMs basically act as defense attorneys for all your dumbest ideas. It is very easy to assume their confidence in you is justified, especially if you already lean narcissistic.

You now see threads on X of famous people using Grok to explain how smart their ideas are. But there’s a problem: You can literally get it to do that with every single dumb idea.

Finding enjoyment in things that are difficult or painful is the probably highest impact quality of life lesson you can learn.

I’ve been hesitant for fear of injury harming the ability to type, but might give it a go in the spring. Thanks for mentioning this I’m inspired to try it finally.