designerarvid

Many nuances and “it depends” here in my experience. Is learning git part of “learning to code”? Some learn, others don’t.

Of course hammering away prompts aren’t learning at all.

Certainly, it helps the architect to know the constraints of concrete and bricks, but you don’t really have to know every level of down to the chemistry.

The benefit here is designers learning to code. It was always weird to me that designers were shaping software without knowing how it was built. I'm a designer btw.

However, designing in code is technology-first. One could argue that the purpose of design - to shape the artifacts for human purpose - is better done NOT starting with the strict rules of code. Pen and paper is still hard to beat, not for anything that looks nice, but for helping your mind forward.

Just refactor and rebrand all of it as Claude Code and see it as one process.

HTML-in-Canvas-in-HTML. Yo dawg.

People still wear masks? Which part of the world?

Haven’t seen a single on since 2022 in Sweden.

That’s a good name! I often resort to “there are many ways to slice a cake”, less sophisticated blunt gets the point across.

What percentage of listened music is AI for you? What about your friends? Your mother’s friends?

AI music is yet to be anything but a curiosity. Recorded music changed so much about everyday life that you can’t imagine the world before it.

That’s the international publisher’s mistake. The text is famous for being similar in style to the preserved Icelandic originals. It’s quite authentic.

Zoom out and take an anthropological view: relevant human skills become irrelevant over time.

I’m not here to say that’s good or fun.

Just reread this[0] classic piece that captures Viking life. It holds up so well.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Long-Ships-Review-Books-Classics/dp/1...

How good are you at writing assembly? What about junior people that take an introductory course in assembly but never practice it.

Maybe I’m pushing it a bit, I know, but a couple of decades ago you could’ve been asking this instead.

I think that the analogy of recorded music best captures your feeling. Not the exact technological and economic transformation that is happening, but the feeling.

Some 120 years ago recordings music was a living phenomena produced in the moment. Musicians worked at restaurants and coffee shops everywhere, being useful without being super stars.

Music didn’t disappear with recordings, but the works is certainly different.

When the canned sentence structures of LLMs are frequent and unaltered throughout an article like this, I always wonder whether the thinking also has been done mainly by the machine.

Maybe you’re talking to the wrong people? Management consultants spontaneously express their love for excel without being prompted. I’ve even seen it at parties.

That is a question about which copyrights are enforced. Different question.

GenZ?

Reproducing someone’s intellectual property and publishing it is exactly what constitutes a copyright violation.

You can retype someone’s book with your keyboard, it’s still not yours.

And lots of bad conscious from all the oil.

People have predicted the end of the world for literally thousands of years. Should’ve happened by now, right?

Plato, and Heraclitus before him, both thought that society would eventually collapse. They sounded smart but would’ve been quite surprised to see what we’ve done with the world.

All email conversations in Swedish public institutions are basically a public act and any citizen can request an extract of them.

Easily explained by the fact that writing some types of software and seeing people using it is fun. Some people take photos for free also.

Doesn’t apply everywhere though.

There’s actually research to support the claim you’re making here (Elaboration Likelihood Model).

When forming attitudes in an area where one doesn’t care, one tends to rely more on who is saying it than what is being said. The opposite is true, if you care about [climate change], you listen to the arguments regardless of who is presenting it.

Not small, essential

Maybe the author is not that informed?

Maximum readability for humans is black text on light grey. Contrast is not the only thing that matters.

Stupid rule. In that case, why ever change a color?

Just stick to ensuring WCAG 2 AA rating. If your awesome design isn’t AA there better be a good reason. If it is, everything’s fine.

In Sweden, kids have stopped showering after PE class due to this concern.

The world is not deterministic, and we can shape norms of how we interact with each other. We don't have to accept being constantly recorded just because the technology makes it possible.

Not to get into politics too much, but surely that is a bit different. EU right wing populism and conservative raise had been slowly happening for some 15-20 years. US for 14 months.

During the 90’s economic crisis all drafters drawing building blueprints by hand disappeared from the Swedish construction industry. Engineers started using CAD instead

Just one example of how this has happened again and again.