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lilerjee

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Hi, I'm Michael Sun, the maker of metaessen.com which manages resources for practical use by simulating the real world and can be used as a bookmark manger or note-taking app.

Blog: devcyc.life

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lilerjee··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
Writing by hand has some advantages and writing by keyboard also has some advantages. Using note-taking app or similar software is very convenient and useful in some situations.
lilerjee··on Writing by hand is good for your brain
"Writing by hand is good for your brain", but it does not say the habit or behavior can help you achieve some success, many achievements, especially the more significant ones need a complicated system and long-term hard work (remember 10000 hours theory?)
lilerjee··on AI Slop: Why Philosophy Journals Should Reject AI-Written Prose
The details are important. You shape the details, and the details shape you in turn as well.
lilerjee··on Making ASCII Art in Vim
It is convenient to draw flow chart or architecture of something using vim and just ASCII
lilerjee··on Why I am not going to buy a computer
> The body characterizes everything it touches. What it makes it traces over with the marks of its pulses and breathings, its excitements, hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. On its good work, it leaves the marks of skill, care, and love persisting through hesitations, flaws, and mistakes. And to those of us who love and honor the life of the body in this world, these marks are precious things, necessities of life.

Full of intelligence in the statement.

It makes me feel the warm.

AI is not intelligence or a person, even not the real AI, current AI is useful for some things, but not so useful for real value or real world, and it will waste too much your energy, resources, and money in the end.

lilerjee··on Codeberg bans vibe coded projects
Maybe this is their point
lilerjee··on Codeberg bans vibe coded projects
Good job

But how to check which projects are vibe coded?

lilerjee··on Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode
I don't know whether other arguments are true, but some arguments in the end are right:

> Using LLMs for code generation feels like a dead end. ..., This is hostile to your ability to understand your code, beyond the fact that you didn’t write it.

What you get from AI is not worth of what you have invested for it in long period.

> Drawing answers directly from knowledge in model weights leads to hallucination even for multi-trillion-parameter models, so why bother making them that big?

Current AI is like the film company producing TV series or movies. "If similar stories do not exist or details are missing, screenwriters use imagination to fill in the gaps (remember hallucination? It's just a makeup.)", refer to the article https://devcyc.life/current-ai-is-like-the-film-company-prod...

lilerjee··on AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion
It looks like AI is completely done.
lilerjee··on How to Read More Books
Use reading book to replace reading phone is a good habit or strategy.

Not only read book, but also thinking them is a must thing.

Sometime you want to go outside from your home to see the real world.

Don't forget the real world, reading book lets you absorb the knowledge, but most time they are not right, accurate, or you don't understand them, the real world can tell you the real knowledge.

lilerjee··on AI 2040: Plan A
A fiction? almost all is pure fantasy or imagination.

What are your real purposes?

No any definition for many important concepts.

No any logic for the concepts.

What is AI?

What are AI companies?

What is "smarter than humans"? All human?

How to check "smarter than humans"?

"building smarter-than-human AI systems within the next 1 to 10 years.", nonsense, AI can store or handle with all details from reality? Even all data centers in the world cannot store all details of the influenza virus.

No concepts and logic, just a fiction, joke, or marketing article.

lilerjee··on AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence
No central idea, and somewhat chaotic

But the one argument is right:

> Reality has lots of finicky details. I would like to see the authors of this document try to change a bike tire. Even with a superintelligent ChatGPT, I suspect they would struggle.

Details can kill AI, causing them useless or wrong directions.

lilerjee··on Good Tools Are Invisible
> The clearest sign a tool is serving you is that you stop noticing it—it becomes invisible.

It is because you are already very familiar with and accustomed to this tool.

The main meaning of the author probably is (from one article):

We need to remember that the purpose of using tools is to solve specific problems and achieve goals.

No tool is perfect. When using the useful functions of a tool, we also need to tolerate or ignore some of its shortcomings. Don't seek out or switch to a new tool simply because of some insignificant flaws. In the process of selecting and using tools, don't have the perfectionism, and always keep the goal in mind. The important thing is to master the useful functions of the tools to quickly, effectively, and efficiently complete tasks or goals, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, rather than constantly complaining, switching tools, and wasting time and energy.

For the tools we choose, one must become truly familiar with and proficient in their use, continuously customize, modify, and improve them, and strive to use them to the fullest extent, thereby significantly improving efficiency and productivity, and solving practical problems and achieving goals faster and better.

lilerjee··on A new way to reflect on how you use Claude
It seems saying "Your way to use Claude is wrong somehow, you should improve the way to use AI", instead of "Our tools have some wrong aspects and we will do our best to improve them".
lilerjee··on I Think I Have LLM Burnout
Current AI is like the film company producing TV series or movies

Review AI code line by line is like watch movies frame by frame, and is impossible, very difficult, terribly boring, or abandoned sooner or later.

lilerjee··on Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected
AI hype comes quickly, and goes with the wind quickly as well.
lilerjee··on Half-Baked Product
Interesting story. This seems a true story of the author? The author understands the characters of the people in the process of business. Understanding reality is not easy.
lilerjee··on Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)
This is one of basic reasons why current AI cannot solve many problems.

No matter how many data centers are built, it is impossible to accommodate that level of detail.

lilerjee··on Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
The force of "AI" companies hype is very strong now, they are everywhere. If you research the articles very carefully, you will feel this force.

The force cannot beat the reality or truth.

lilerjee··on Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
Please prove this is an age of AI, could you confirm it?

If a real programmer does use "AI" usually, or use AI to solve all problems about programming, and AI does the all programming tasks, after 1 or 2 years, do you think his/her skills of programming are improving or declining? He/She will lose big part of programming skills very probability. Do you think he/she is a real-programmer then?

lilerjee··on Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
Current AI cannot be comparable with "machinery and assembly lines".

Current AI companies stole much data from Internet without permissions, and used the knowledge of many people directly shamelessly.

It cannot resolve many practical problems well, even in programming area.

Do you want the software-assistant to do the important or enjoyable things instead of you? Do you want your assistant in real life to eat the delicious food instead of you?

lilerjee··on Reflections on software engineering in the age of AI
This is not an Age of AI. Why do so many not-real-programmers think this is an age of AI? It's just a hype.

I am developing my own app 2+ years manually, and not use "AI" at all.

Using AI usually can cause many problems, which the author pointed at.

Programming should be enjoyable, not an annoyed or unhappy thing.

lilerjee··on The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
Its meaning is similar to my blog about what AI is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48641141

Intelligence is like your own practice or experiences in the real world.

Current AI is like the film company producing TV series or movies.

lilerjee··on We all depend on open source. We will defend it together
Do you pay for the opensource projects which the "AI" companies used to train your LLMs?

Used them first to train LLMs to earn money, then exploit them again?

lilerjee··on Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?
If you work for only 4 hours a week, what practical things could you complete and do you really like the things what you are doing?

If you really like to do the things, you will spend many hours on it.

lilerjee··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
"Artificial intelligence is not conscious". This is a common sense.

LLMs are not even artificial intelligence, and they are just advanced automation systems.

AI is just marketing language.

lilerjee··on The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian
So I said "Most time". I know the situation you said. The situation exists but is not regular (I think it's occasional except you want to create a complex system by notes).

By the way, the most important thing is thinking, not the notes, but notes can help you thinking and creating better systems.

More and earlier thinking, more notes, better systems.

I hope it can help you and other people.

lilerjee··on The Zettelkasten method in Obsidian
It is too complicated. We just get, save or write something, maybe with some categories, keywords, or tags.

After saving, maybe you need some organization later, but most time they are just there. Most time you search content by categories, keywords, or tags.

I think we need right tools for different requirements.

lilerjee··on Are You becoming a Slave to AI? (Maybe you are losing chances to grow) (2025)
The main views on AI are similar with mine
lilerjee··on Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team
It's time to think about seriously "Could we create a license to make AI companies pay for your content?" or "Create a technology to ban AI bots effectively",

please refer to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45729809

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