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You've climbed a certain mountain, and you're strolling around the summit on flat ground. You're looking down on the people at the bottom or middle of the moun

You've climbed a certain mountain, and you're strolling around the summit on flat ground. You're looking down on the people at the bottom or middle of the mountain, struggling up hill to reach the peak, and wondering "why are they going through all this effort? Why don't they just stroll around on flat ground like I am?". They're still building the systems that you already have in place. It's far easier to use a system you already have than to build one from scratch. Maybe not with physical or academic health for you, but I'm sure there's some areas of life that you're lacking in that could use improvements. If you can't think of any, I can give you a hint: empathy. If you try to work on it, you might have to do things like set reminders to call friends on their birthdays, or just to check in. You might have to force yourself outside to chat with that neighbor that you don't exactly like and find some common ground. You might have to set a goal of volunteering a certain amount of time at a homeless shelter, and track those hours. Meanwhile, there are people who already have buffed up their empathy their entire life, and do all these things(and more) naturally. Should they look at you and wonder why empathy is so hard for you, and tell you your efforts to consciously improve this part of your life is a waste, since they were able to achieve higher levels of empathy without doing any of those things ?

eloisius 2mo ago
> They're still building the systems that you already have in place. Bull. They're doing highly sophisticated procrastination. I'll never become a great photographer by vibe coding the perfect tool for my workflow that selects, ranks and edits the 100 photos I took this week, or one that tells me where to stand and when to click the shutter. I have to be out shooting thousands of photos every week and laboring over the editing myself. You get good at what you do, and if you're spending your time making these one-off disposable apps instead of doing the thing they ostensibly support, a few years from now that's what you're going to be better at.
- IncreasePosts 2mo ago
  I think the whole point of OPs post is that they didn't spend a bunch of time coding the apps, since a LLM did it for them with a fairly simple prompt. > I have to be out shooting thousands of photos every week and laboring over the editing Why? Ansel adams would only shoot 20 photos a week on average. Why are you procrastinating by spending so much time with the camera instead of just having naturally good taste like him?
  - eloisius 2mo ago
    Ansel Adams’ greatness wasn’t shooting. It was printmaking. He invented a system for getting the maximum tonal range in a print. In fact he spent so much time printmaking that he would sometimes reshoot a print (take a picture of a picture) to save that negative as the canonical one to make additional prints from, because it would be impossible to replicate all the dodging and burning that he did to make that perfect print. Having done a little darkroom work myself, I can’t even begin to guess how much time he spent in the darkroom. Aside from that, I don’t know why so many people on this site seem to hold Adams up as the world’s greatest photographer. His work was great for its time, but if someone was shooting the same things today it would most likely be lost in the deluge of boring postcard landscapes. Contemporary photographers that are great shoot a ton. Watch an in-the-field video with Martin Parr. Someone like that comes home with hundreds or maybe over a thousand frames from an afternoon at the fair.
    - IncreasePosts 2mo ago
      Say what you want about Ansel Adams but he certainly was more accomplished than a two time state champ in track

eloisius 2mo ago

> They're still building the systems that you already have in place. Bull. They're doing highly sophisticated procrastination. I'll never become a great photographer by vibe coding the perfect tool for my workflow that selects, ranks and edits the 100 photos I took this week, or one that tells me where to stand and when to click the shutter. I have to be out shooting thousands of photos every week and laboring over the editing myself. You get good at what you do, and if you're spending your time making these one-off disposable apps instead of doing the thing they ostensibly support, a few years from now that's what you're going to be better at.

IncreasePosts 2mo ago
I think the whole point of OPs post is that they didn't spend a bunch of time coding the apps, since a LLM did it for them with a fairly simple prompt. > I have to be out shooting thousands of photos every week and laboring over the editing Why? Ansel adams would only shoot 20 photos a week on average. Why are you procrastinating by spending so much time with the camera instead of just having naturally good taste like him?
- eloisius 2mo ago
  Ansel Adams’ greatness wasn’t shooting. It was printmaking. He invented a system for getting the maximum tonal range in a print. In fact he spent so much time printmaking that he would sometimes reshoot a print (take a picture of a picture) to save that negative as the canonical one to make additional prints from, because it would be impossible to replicate all the dodging and burning that he did to make that perfect print. Having done a little darkroom work myself, I can’t even begin to guess how much time he spent in the darkroom. Aside from that, I don’t know why so many people on this site seem to hold Adams up as the world’s greatest photographer. His work was great for its time, but if someone was shooting the same things today it would most likely be lost in the deluge of boring postcard landscapes. Contemporary photographers that are great shoot a ton. Watch an in-the-field video with Martin Parr. Someone like that comes home with hundreds or maybe over a thousand frames from an afternoon at the fair.
  - IncreasePosts 2mo ago
    Say what you want about Ansel Adams but he certainly was more accomplished than a two time state champ in track