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by allenu 7mo ago
I was being a little facetious, but there are things that most people would find tedious today that we would put up with in the past. Writing anything long by hand (letters, essays), doing accounting without a spreadsheet, writing a game in
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by allenu 7mo ago
I think you're spot on. It feels like parts were edited with AI and parts were left alone. > This isn't just a Digg problem. It's an internet problem. But it hit us harder because trust is the product. The statement this i
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by allenu 7mo ago
I was thinking about that recently. Maybe decades from now people will look at things like the Linux kernel or Doom and be shocked that mere humans were able to program large codebases by hand.
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by allenu 7mo ago
I've noticed that too and it's not too different from political discussions. At the end of the day, I think the split is really about different values people have, their identity, and justice. A lot of developers' identities
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by allenu 7mo ago
> I think the real divide is over quality and standards. I think there are multiple dimensions that people fall on regarding the issue and it's leading to a divide based on where everyone falls on those dimensions. Quality and stand
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by allenu 7mo ago
I was using a M1 Mac Mini and only 8GB of RAM on it to build iOS apps for maybe a year. It's absolutely doable, though it very noticeably gets a little less snappy when building projects. When building in Xcode and then switching to Fi
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by allenu 7mo ago
I definitely encountered this second-system effect recently. I have an app that works well because it was written to target a specific use case. User (and I) wanted some additional features, but the original architecture just couldn't
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by allenu 7mo ago
I wrote some BBS door games back in the day and was thinking of making a new one today, although not multi-player. It would be in the style of the old games (ANSI-style art and text) but for a single-player and with a daily play limitation
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by allenu 7mo ago
You're probably right about the terminology being around for a while, but I think most people just called them smileys (i.e. ;) would be called a "winking smiley"). I remember seeing the term used maybe in the early- or mid-9
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by allenu 7mo ago
Yup. AI can't automate long-term responsibility and ownership of a product. It can produce output quicker but somebody still has to be responsible to the customer using said product. The hard limit is still the willingness of the human
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by allenu 7mo ago
It would be so much easier just to see the three or four bullet points given to the LLM than to read it.
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by allenu 8mo ago
I really don't know why this idea still persists that going through App Store review is this awful thing that takes forever and eats up all of your time. It really doesn't nowadays. I've shipped several apps in the last few y
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by allenu 8mo ago
In the clip, I thought he was playing a prank by reading the script of NotebookLM as the third voice (after the woman). Was that really NotebookLM? I've only heard the first two voices and the first voice didn't sound like him to
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by allenu 8mo ago
I think before Friendster, Myspace, then Facebook, there was a period where there were discussion forums for local communities. I think it was useful for meeting people. I remember friends in the late '90s used them frequently for chat
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by allenu 8mo ago
I agree. It's not that the web was high-trust. It was more that if you landed on a niche web page, you knew whoever put it together probably had at least a little expertise (and care) since it wouldn't be worth writing about somet
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by allenu 8mo ago
I agree that framing and scoping tasks is becoming a real joy. The great thing about this strategy is there's a point at which you can scope something small enough that it's hard for the AI to get it wrong and it's easy enoug
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by allenu 8mo ago
I agree the language itself has gotten more complex, but for day-to-day productivity in terms of actually using it to write code, I don't think it makes a difference. I've found writing Swift code very pleasant, but I've been
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by allenu 8mo ago
I don't think it necessarily scales that way. Larger organizations need more communication channels and coordination. If anything, assuming AI does give you 10x ability, there's probably a sweet spot where you have just enough dev
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by allenu 8mo ago
I don't really use "second brain" style notes and links for taking action. I use them to record something I think I might find interesting later, like a bookmark. I tag it and move on and later when enough time has passed, I
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by allenu 8mo ago
Like an RSS feed reader or messenger client? I would definitely prefer that.
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by allenu 8mo ago
>I noticed something: most of the irritation came from a handful of people, sometimes only one or two. If I could only ignore them, the computer conferences were still valuable. Alas, it's not always easy to do. This is one of those
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by allenu 9mo ago
Comparing the two, you can really see how minimalist the modern stuff is. It has less texture, fewer details (buttons, collars), no patterns (at least from the blog post screenshots). I think you could argue that some of this is just modern
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by allenu 9mo ago
I agree that this is a component of it, but there are some other things at play here which I think is what makes the debate so furious. For one, I think there's a sense of unfairness that people are expressing as well. A skill that too
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by allenu 9mo ago
The effect reminds me of the classic Fishtro demo by Future Crew from 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUjRpLn2qWo
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by allenu 9mo ago
That brings back memories. They were definitely popular. In the early 2000s, I worked at a small company and one coworker had a bunch of Dilbert strips all over one of her cubicle walls. It wasn't an insane amount, but her cube was on
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by allenu 9mo ago
It's really a great way to train your ear, and fun, too. I can play ukulele, but mostly just to strum and play songs to, but a few years ago I just started picking notes to try to recreate melodies of songs I knew or heard recently. At
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by allenu 9mo ago
It's a very cool little game! One suggestion: could you make it so you can noodle around on the keyboard without submitting the answer and then once you've worked it out, have a submission mode? Right now, it's frustrating th
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by allenu 10mo ago
I find that I use it on isolated changes where Claude doesn’t really need to access a ton of files to figure out what to do and I can easily use it without hitting limits. The only time I hit the 4-5 hour limit is when I’m going nuts on a p
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by allenu 10mo ago
Not exactly the same, but Massive Attack had some facial recognition software running in the background during a concert to illustrate how pervasive modern day surveillance is: https://petapixel.com/2025/09/17&#x2F
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by allenu 10mo ago
I wrote my own flashcard app and had a very basic import from Anki feature and I have to admit that I underestimated how Anki handles it. My first attempt at import was very naive and sort "flattened" the imported data into simple

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