TeriyakiBomb

I said AI has utility but drives irrational levels of investment. Crypto has little utility besides a place to gamble, con credulous people and otherwise act as a really shitty store of wealth.

Most modern crypto projects barely bother to promise to do anything useful let alone achieve anything useful, which the overwhelming majority do not.

These aren't beliefs but statements of fact.

100% I have one ~tiny~ project that has a handful of stars and actual people seem to use it. End of last year I received a huge slop drive-by PR on it. Spent 20 minutes reading it, realised it was just nonsense. I want my friggin' 20 minutes back.

I can't imagine how infuriating this is for maintainers of projects with much more footfall. I'm frankly shocked more aren't just outright closing the doors to PRs from unknown contributors

See how fast so many of the crypto and NFT/Web 3 lot shifted to AI, like rats on a sinking ship.

I think VCs saw Crypto and dreamt of being able to create the same amount of irrational value. AI has the same technical complexity "You can't easily explain it in a single sentence" energy but unlike Crypto and NFTs, enough actual utility to not seem completely illegitimate. It literally is the perfect hype grift tool. Crypto has survived almost 20 years off of nonsense, how long can this crap last. sigh

I've been experimenting with Fossil too recently. I think the biggest sell for Fossil is absolutely that small team angle and the sheer amount of context Fossil allows around what has happened in a repo historically. From that perspective, fossil is straight up superior. That plus autosync as a default. The quirks are something I haven't found too annoying, the learning curve isn't awful.

The AI angle is the wrong one IMO. And it'll turn people off. I'd just drop it entirely. I came across the fossilrepo...repo and immediately became wary as it felt very much like a semi vibe coded project. I'm not a hater, but it's not just me that's wary and keeps LLMs at arms reach, especially on non-toy projects like this aims to be. You have to as it's extremely hard to sift "Developer sensibly making use of LLMs" from pure spaghetti without interrogating a repo.

FWIW I think there should be a "GitHub for Fossil" but it's not a selling point and it should not be a commercially driven thing

I'm in this comment and I don't like it

For real though, when UX became an actual official discipline wasn't too long before a lot of the arse fell out of graphic design and a load of them moved over. A lot of people from newer generations of UX/UI people are possibly worse, often just rolling out conventions wholesale with little thought. Hiding behind design systems and clutching Figma files like they're pearls.

Contrary to what the author says, actual idioms are more common than ever before. They've just cherry picked older examples. He's talking about an era of software where one of the Windows media player skins was a giant green head (No shade, I loved that guy) the real issue is in the superficial changes and the aforementioned lack of consideration when rolling them out

Everything is magic when you don't understand how things work.