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Helps that Disney World was built up and not down. Everything is above sea level because it's in a swamp in Florida. Ground floor for guests is several stories up. I feel like Disney World is more comparable to an open air mall than a city.

Profit in video games as an industry is largely the gambling industry hiding under the another umbrella. I'm not even talking about loot boxes. Just old school gambling games like roulette and slot machines but in a digital format. Once you strip that away and loot boxes, the numbers are great for classic games.

Pandemic really ramped it up. Also screen addiction has gone mainstream. In front of a screen 12+ hours a day 20 years ago? Total nerd. Now? Standard behavior.

It's not the same, and there is no going back. We moved another layer up in the abstraction stack, but this shift feels fundamentally different.

I wonder if the people who enjoy the purely agentic version would also enjoy management. Personally, I have said no to more money because I enjoy the ground level work. But that work is just not the same.

I think running a model unsupervised in anything above medium is a sucker move to burn more tokens. The high effort models can be great in limited context, but unsupervised they too often end up navel gazing. High doesn't always mean smarter, but it always burns more tokens. Medium and low seem to be decent for day to day tasks.

Does anyone else hate reading AI summaries of code? Code can be pithy, but at least its terse compared to prose. When you add how verbose LLMs can be, I often end up reading a paragraph to explain a few lines. Or the opposite happens where the summary skips important edge cases or criteria. "You're right, X also does Y. I missed that in my initial analysis," is much too common of a phrase.

I like the idea of using LLMs to transform code into something more readable, and vice versa. I am not sure if meandering paragraphs and linear lists are the best targets.

How can you sanely project the last 12 months forward? We have seen a huge uptick in usage. Last summer AI was a toy to most devs, now every enterprise developer I talked to uses it every day. Coding agent providers are surely going to hit market saturation in the near future.

I think a better term would be bridle, but most people don't know it. But they do put harnesses on their kids and pets.

Anyone I talked to who actually built software found them to be bunk. Occasionally they work, but mostly they just burn tokens.

The only people I know still hyped on this approach were managers who were detached from actual engineering, primarily producing bespoke dashboard and tools.

You missed the crypto hype by a few years. Also zit is slang for a pimple or acne. Not a great name.

So that puts them in the middle? For such a massive state, regression to the median sounds likely.

Bold claims with no examples. Anyone can make a markdown chart with some pros and cons. Description by comparison is weak.

Great, more RTO mandates.

Because these data centers put enormous pressure on local utilities, pay 0 dollars back into the local economy, and get tax breaks. Often they are facilitated by backroom deals with local politicians. This plays both into anxieties surrounding AI and general corruption.

Files became an implementation detail.

Because we value leadership over craftsmanship. Ever since people like Ford showed that it was not individual skills but optimized systems that make the biggest corporate machines with the most potential for profit, we have prioritized one over the other.

Does it do anything novel? Looks the same as any other basic stock ticker app. Most of the popular ones are made by companies with massive marketing budgets.

We had a private network on campus circa 2010. Streaming was up and coming but not huge. Gnutella was great on the gigabit intranet. You could download entire HD movies in minutes where conventional torrents may be hours.

I would rather see MS Paint art like Slay the Spire than ai slop art. I think you could have done ai art for a demo but it's so obviously ai, it immediately turned me off. And may turn others off too.

Bleh AI card art. One of the best part of card games is the ability to showcase high quality illustrators.

Hosting and public are different. This measure is like saying unless you are painting public murals you haven't made real art. The take is just so wrong it's hard to know where to start.

I build stuff that people use every day (judging by the flood of tickets I'll get if I ship a bug), but my public github profile looks like a ghost account. 99% of what I build is proprietary, and is either in a private or self hosted repo.

I'm not sure scanning public GitHub is a great way to identify "do nothing" developers.

Prompt engineering is mostly structured thought. Can you write a lab report? Can you describe the who, what, when, where, and why of a problem and its solution?

You can get it to work with one off commands or specific instructions, but I think that will be seen as hacks, red flags, prompt smells in the long term.

Where ya headed?

Rules for thee but not for me.

Maybe? This seems to be more aimed at procrastination. Making map or a tool is still doing a thing, just not the thing.

There should be a saying like "A tool is not the task" similar to "A map is not the land." As professional tool makers it can be easy to replace the task with a tool in theory, but that's not reality.

In a similar vein I think that's why there are so many devs making game engines instead of games.

Because many people run on policies and then just don't follow up. Trump ran on "no more wars" and then started a war. Most people have such a team mindset they will choose denial over admitted they were duped, and then do it all again.

Because our government is not run for the workers but the owners. Full stop.

Sometimes people just need something else to tell them their ideas are valid. Validation is a core principle of therapeutic care. Procrastination is tightly linked to fear of a negative outcome. LLMs can help with both of these. They can validate ideas in the now which can help overcome some of that anxiety.

Unfortunately they can also validate some really bad ideas.