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> We live in wild times. I hope everyone is taking advantage while they can. I dunno, hey. I'm not about to yolo my way for all things that are important. For

> We live in wild times. I hope everyone is taking advantage while they can. I dunno, hey. I'm not about to yolo my way for all things that are important. For things that are unimportant I will just use the existing stuff. The goldilocks zone (things that an irritation, but not important), sure, I'll vibe a little Python/shell whatever, but pre-LLMs, I was already reducing my friction with little scripts anyway. For example, in a recent comment of mine I posted a little wish script that I created in 2002, to have a simple GUI mp3 player, which I have been using daily since 2002.

shjssusuus 1mo ago
You being able / willing to maintain the same routine for over twenty years is not something I want to condemn or anything, but it is IMO a good indication that our lives are very different. My whole life swifts gears every five years or so. I can’t imagine living in a world where I’d be needing a “script” to handle my “MP3 playing”. Besides vast changes in hardware and OS realities I regularly go from not listening to music for months to listening every day and besides getting those “MP3”s will get tiring because I won’t listen to the same music for years, I want variety, stuff I don’t know. Spotify is the only real option these days. In five years it will be different I’m sure. If your life’s substrate is so stable and unchanging it supports decade long unaltered daily habits.. Let’s just say it’s not universal. If we simplify everyone’s life to “just do X unaltered for twenty years” much if not all of modern life’s complexities would fall away. I can see how you can be dismissive of AI; it doesn’t change your underlying reality at all in fact it only introduces noise into your perfectly stable bubble.

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> We live in wild times. I hope everyone is taking advantage while they can. I dunno, hey. I'm not about to yolo my way for all things that are important. For

by lelanthran 1mo ago

shjssusuus 1mo ago
You being able / willing to maintain the same routine for over twenty years is not something I want to condemn or anything, but it is IMO a good indication that our lives are very different. My whole life swifts gears every five years or so. I can’t imagine living in a world where I’d be needing a “script” to handle my “MP3 playing”. Besides vast changes in hardware and OS realities I regularly go from not listening to music for months to listening every day and besides getting those “MP3”s will get tiring because I won’t listen to the same music for years, I want variety, stuff I don’t know. Spotify is the only real option these days. In five years it will be different I’m sure. If your life’s substrate is so stable and unchanging it supports decade long unaltered daily habits.. Let’s just say it’s not universal. If we simplify everyone’s life to “just do X unaltered for twenty years” much if not all of modern life’s complexities would fall away. I can see how you can be dismissive of AI; it doesn’t change your underlying reality at all in fact it only introduces noise into your perfectly stable bubble.