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That screenshot is some Lynchian horror. "#engineering. New direction, team – we're moving the prototype to Flutter" and then the humans and agent bots engage i

• Lalabadie 3mo ago
  It's also a capture made from seeded test data, all messages are at 5:42. Or a mockup based on said capture.
  • catmanjan 3mo ago
    I think its an intentional mockup - perhaps the intent is to make it look like it all happened within a minute, and I'm sure they picked that time to imply that its something you could do after your 9-5... marketing is all so sinister.
• theideaofcoffee 3mo ago
  It doesn't. But as long as it's a vibe-coded slop product shat out by one of the tech glitterati using the latest marketing wanketeering and sucking up tokens to power the in-built AI nonsense, it'll be eaten up. The bubble can't pop soon enough.
  • slashdave 3mo ago
    Oh, is this a thing? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glitterati https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glitterati > people who are famous, wealthy Oh, okay... > and attractive lost me
  • echelon 3mo ago
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    • inigyou 3mo ago
      Cool. Windows was made in 7.5 years. Since you can do one month per 2 days it should take you less than 6 months to make something equivalent to Windows and make as much money. How long have you been doing it??
      • echelon 3mo ago
        I've built two multi-million dollar businesses this year. I have no interest in building Windows. Right now I'm building some very cool business functions similar to companies with way more funding yet lackluster product offerings. I have no doubt someone out there somewhere will follow up on exactly what you've suggested.
        • superdisk 3mo ago
          > I've built two multi-million dollar businesses this year. Elaborate? Legitimately curious
          • robin_reala 3mo ago
            Assuming Guyanese dollars, you can claim a multi-million dollar business when your business hits 9,615 USD valuation.
          • Cthulhu_ 3mo ago
            Might be related to https://github.com/storytold/artcraft https://github.com/storytold/artcraft, they posted it a while ago. I can imagine there's demand for quick storyboarding in the filmmaking / content creation world. That said, turning a tool into a profitable business is another story entirely; if one person can turn an idea into working software with the help of AI, dozens more can too. So I'm also curious, not just from idea to software, but from software to business and millions of income.
  • blitzar 3mo ago
    > The bubble can't pop soon enough. I am not ready for a new hype cycle based on whatever the imagineers come up with next.
• hahahaa 3mo ago
  Yeah just need to tell the system prompt to not do that. A grumpy senior engineer agent that pushes back on constant tech stack changes would be good too.
  • blanched 3mo ago
    Are you making a joke? Not being snarky, I actually can't tell if it's a real suggestion or satirical.
    • hahahaa 3mo ago
      Half joking, half serious. We need AI to challenge assumptions to not just "you are absolutely correct" all the time.
      • teaearlgraycold 3mo ago
        I really need these LLMs to start being more like the gate keeping assholes of StackOverflow. Just a little dash of that energy would go a long way.
        • Neywiny 3mo ago
          It's funny. Sometimes it's very confidently accepting any and everything, but then other times it'll fight me to the death that something dumb like idk symlinks don't exist and it's so foolish to think otherwise
        • NamlchakKhandro 3mo ago
          ponytail pi extension. get it.
          • jorisw 3mo ago
            This is great https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
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• lifty 3mo ago
  Nostr is not blockchain. It's a p2p protocol.
  • jayd16 3mo ago
    Maybe they meant git? Not right either but less wrong.
  • Avshalom 3mo ago
    Nostr isn't really p2p it's just that if you stick to text it's cheap to host a server
    • littlecranky67 3mo ago
      You are right, and "decentralized" would be the proper word. Thats why it is often associated with Bitcoin (and yes, because there are extensions that allow you to "zap" - i.e. attach bitcoin via lightning network to messages. These are optional extensions however, and Nostr serves its own right outside of crypto. In the times of internet censorship and social media ID verification, Nostr is a welcome technology.
      • Hilliard_Ohiooo 3mo ago
        Lightning network is a vaporware scam that has never and will never work. It's purpose was to convince idiots that Bitcoin hadn't been taken over when it actually had been by the private company, Blockstream.
        • littlecranky67 3mo ago
          As a lightning node runner myself and someone who sends lightning around on a weekly basis - care to share the arguments to support those wild claims?
• ohyoutravel 3mo ago
  I would ask that someone shoot me in the face before I engaged with this slop.
  • wayeq 3mo ago
    Me: Shoot me in the face, @cringebot Cringebot: :salute: on it!
• KennyBlanken 3mo ago
  Every time I see some vibecoded AI slop project announcement where there is almost 1 emoji per line I want to reach out across the internet and punch the "author" in the face. This shit is infesting every online discussion forum I'm in.
• Terr_ 3mo ago
  I have a premonition of future programming despair, and I wonder if it'll be like what Ian McKellen felt: A veteran of Shakespearean plays, doing all those [correction, not LoTR] The Hobbit green-screen shots interacting with no real person... __________ > McKellen said: "I felt pretty miserable … and thought perhaps, has the time come for me to stop acting altogether if I can't cope with these difficulties?" [...] > "It was so distressing and off-putting and difficult that I thought 'I don't want to make this film if this is what I'm going to have to do'," McKellen added. "It's not what I do for a living. I act with other people, I don't act on my own." -- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/20/the-hobbit-gandalf-ian-mckellen-almost-quit-acting https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/nov/20/the-hobbit-gand...
  • suladead 3mo ago
    Soul engraving video seeing him go through that
    • fragmede 3mo ago
      Compare that to actors acting in The Volume though, instead of the greenscreen room.
      • ses1984 3mo ago
        Being marginally better than hell is still hell.
        • fragmede 3mo ago
          "marginally better"? What are you on about? The Volume is the opposite end of having to act in a greenscreen room!
          • ses1984 3mo ago
            If you’re the only one in the cast who isn’t cgi, it’s basically the same.
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• jorisw 3mo ago
  It's not really that Emoji filled. The screenshot is supposed to've been taken when a click on a heart reaction invoked a little animation. I don't see anything about 'nailing' the physics either. It's just a design instruction.
• kleiba2 3mo ago
  Maybe it's just me, but when I was younger one reason that got me into AI research was the idea that one day we would have these seemingly intelligent entities that we could talk to and interact with just like we do with humans. Now that we have that, everybody hates it. Except me. I still like this. There might still be room for improvement, yes, but I think this is a cool attempt to making AI agents part of the team. I think what could help make this better is investing into giving agents actual personality, instead of them being just sycophantic clones of each other. AI agents as team members should have clear aspects of distinction both in their abilities and behaviors.
  • Sharlin 3mo ago
    Most people likely have a natural aversion against having "team members" without agency or consciousness. Giving them artificial, acted personalities would be even more horrible. LLMs are tools and trying to elevate them to the same level as actual humans is nuts. (Yes yes, we can't know whether it "feels like" something to exist as bursts of vast numbers of matrix multiplications, but at least it would be a rather strange existence.)
    • fidotron 3mo ago
      > Most people likely have a natural aversion against having "team members" without agency or consciousness. Giving them artificial, acted personalities would be even more horrible. The problem isn't the team member being artificial or not, it's the obvious fakery of the personalities that is the problem, and that's entirely independent from the artificiality of the team member.
  • moron4hire 3mo ago
    I've been at my current company for just over three years. I manage a small team of developers at a medium-sized consultancy, building internal tooling for our data analysts. One of my junior developers started the same day I did; we went through on boarding together. He's in his mid 20s, this is his second job post-college, after having an abysmal experience entering the workforce during COVID. He's had some struggles with learning to code but has taken my advice to build side projects for things he is interested in and has really started to take off. He got married last year and just last week bought a house. One of my developers was a brand new junior, having started her first job post-college just a few months before I started at the company. When I first met her, she apologized to me. She hadn't done anything, she was just that kind of mousy person whose obviously been ground down by everyone around her for her entire life. I started making her deliver our project status updates. I also give her full projects that she works on her own with no input from me, other than whatever advice she herself asks of me. She finished her master's degree in computer science last year and also recently bought a house. One of my more recent developers came to us from after 10 years of working on-site on military bases. She'd been stuck in a corner, made to maintain large legacy projects on her own, over looked for promotion her entire career. She's one of the best project managers I've ever seen. I have her deliver all of our presentations to the C-suite (and there are a lot of them). She just got engaged and I recently got her promoted for the first time in her career. One of my former developers came to me from a different part of the company. He came to the company after being a medic on active duty in Afghanistan. His former team couldn't figure out what to do with him and when the contract on which he was working expired, they didn't bother to find a new one for him. He had told his supervisor he wanted to be a programmer, not an analyst, and somehow his supervisor knew I was looking for people. He was an absolutely terrible programmer. I spent multiple sessions a week working on mentoring him. Ultimately, I suggested he find another company and helped him find one that I thought would fit him better, something smaller, not in consulting, that could have more time to work directly with him, and kept him busy with documentation tasks until he could transition with no down time. He still sends me updates on LinkedIn. He also bought a house and is getting married soon. He loves his new job, misses our team, but says he's learning a lot more now. Our company is one of the worst places to work as a software developer I've ever seen. Not quite the worst in that nobody is yelling at us or threatening us with violence, but our management has absolutely zero understanding of the business of software development. It's incompetent-bad, not evil-bad. The actual projects are ludicrously bad with no direction. My boss listens to me in our one-on-ones with bewildered eyes as I describe the cacophony of dumb ideas from our C-suite stakeholders, folks he has no involvement with because my team is matrixed out to internal work. He mostly just lets me do whatever I want as long as the timesheets get signed on time. I love working here. I also recently bought a house, my first one in my life. Oh yeah, we live in Northern Virginia, BTW, houses ain't cheap here. But I love working here despite all the product idiocy because I don't see my job as building software, I see it as building software developers. Fuck calling a computer program a "teammate." A computer program is not going to have a brilliant and beautiful life. We only do any of this shit because it's in the service of people.
• sharperguy 3mo ago
  No blockchains here. Nostr is just a standard signed message format being relayed by simple store and forward relay servers.
• tlongwell-block 3mo ago
  The screenshot is totally scripted. It’s from a video capture, which involves a few moving parts that are difficult to choreograph live with multiple humans and agents. You can see the PR for the scripted demo in the repo. I wouldn't underestimate whimsy as a way to make fundamentally strange things feel intuitive. Bots are managed by people or orgs and can have different capabilities and authorization, so names and images are convenient shorthand for humans to distinguish these instances from one another. Whether or not you make them cutesy is entirely up to you.
• drcxd 3mo ago
  Nobody notices that all the messages are labeled "5:42 pm"? From the proposition of the idea to the the review of the PR. This of course is impossible. I mean, even AI bots can understand and implement the features that fast, it is impossible for your human colleagues to notice your message and respond in the same minute. So, this image is also generated by AI?