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Also our error handling is a mix of Result and try-catch, and mixing between the two is bad. It does a good job of noticing when we cross the streams.
Even if it succeeded, having more buttons everywhere - marketplace, reels, stories, blogs, articles, groups, etc. A lot of this make the whole experience more crowded.
Productivity here has an odd effect, sort of like larger roads causing more traffic jams.
Is it the same with tech? Facebook has 3 billion monthly active users. No amount of tech will bring that up to 6 billion. If you were to double the amount of time someone spends on Facebook, or double the ads they see or double the click through rate, what does that really mean?
Partly it's because they're easier to get into. It works well on a Mac or even on a phone. Lie in bed, do your three missions, sleep.
Partly because I can play with the kids. No extra account purchases, no teabagging.
I think game devs assume that they're just different audiences, but not really. Just because I like 18+ rated games sometimes, it doesn't mean I wouldn't pay a 6+ rated game most of the time. Who knows, we might see a Civ equivalent on Roblox in time. Roblox is the metaverse that Meta saw a decade away but couldn't capture market share for.
It was originally meant as a joke. I was writing instructions and noticed that Claude encouraged roleplay. So I figured I could give it a traumatic background.
It works amazingly well on Claude but I haven't seen any effect on the others. I make it a little chatty so I know what it's trying to do and why. The paranoia works extra well for debugging and code reviews. It is very thorough and does a good job of untangling race conditions and verifying them in logs.
It sounds smart, but it's autocomplete. If a group of students uses it to get ideas for an essay, the whole class will write the same essay, starring the same "Sarah Chen (no relations to Marcus Chen)".
That said, throughout history we've delegated decision making to tools. Bone reading, palm reading, face reading, dice, cards, horoscope, diviners, prophets. AI is just the latest, and 50 years from now we'll be shaking our heads at how the people in 2025 blindly trusted them.
Since the future is AI agents, I'm thinking this works better than trying to retrofit an existing flow. I can just plug it into a MCP or something later to delegate the tasks to AI and track.
I feel like the problem with a lot of paid tools is that the money is in medium sized teams (~30 or so people). Solo types like Workflowy and Pivotal Tracker aren't very profitable and there's a strong pull to enshittification.
A decent company wouldn't necessarily look for someone who can type faster or commit 100x more code like the vibers do, but look into how you understand the code.
Much of the early practice is being able to be pushed back and keep your head up, or rolling about without risking your neck. It fixed my back, neck, and a bunch of core muscles in a painful month or so of training, compared to years of physio, massages, and exercises.
To be realistic, doing neck exercises is about as fun as doing math without any exams. Martial arts triggered a kind of survival instinct.
If Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, OpenAI, etc, were complicit in genocide in Sudan, Sudan would have much more attention.
From the guidelines:
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Arguably it can be two people, but buddy cop movies are popular precisely because of how dysfunctional this can be.
More seriously though, Slack was one of those tools that just held context of everything. All the engineering decisions and past error messages. Discord potentially could, but it doesn't seem to built for this use case.
Can it handle a thousand channels? It sounds ridiculous, but companies scale, and so do observation tools, customer service, and such.
I joined an elite gaming clan that operated on Slack once because it was easy to spin multiple channels per player and handle notifications. Discord potentially could, but channel management is a lot harder. Though that clan eventually moved over to Discord because nobody wants to pay $ per head.
You use an engine to pump water and drill holes. Then they got more complex and moved heavy objects. Then they started powering warships. Warships were always powered by wind but the engine gave just enough power to build ships out of heavier materials and carry heavy armaments, which changed the balance of power, and led to a third of the world declaring independence from European colonial powers.
LLMs are like that. They can process a lot of text. They can think better than humans because they're doing large searches. They can be far more creative than any human. We're not there yet though, but there's a century gap between the Watt engine and the steam powered warships.
Calling it AI has had... very negative effects on how people use the technology. Instead of using it to process things, they're used on a layer that they don't belong to. People are trying to accelerate to the warship era with lots and lots of money, but money doesn't work that way.
It used verdant excessively in the past, but that's a less noticeable word than goblin.
There's kind of this weird thing in Silicon Valley where CEOs and investors keep telling people to raise prices! The definition of a moat is you can raise prices!!!
But these folks usually don't have the experience of being broke or saving for retirement and such. They don't understand that an extra $10/month is a heck lot of money. And so nobody really wants to try it and it has a dampening effect on the virality.
It's definitely not "elevated errors". It's down. Inaccessible. Not green. Yellow at best.
What's extra annoying is it works on some accounts and not on others. It works on Cursor running Claude and Antigravity running Claude, but not on the Claude account I paid for personally.