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by bentt 1y ago
It’s hard to not think that all the money which was clawed back in recent tech layoffs is now being burned in yet another billionaire ego contest.
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by bentt 1y ago
One thing that every working dev needs to realize, for their benefit, is that the AI gold rush is leading many, many companies to find ways to trumpet their use of AI for no other reason than to please investors. After all, if it's the
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by bentt 1y ago
So when things are grim in 2028 what’s the plan for the election? Blame Obama?
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by bentt 1y ago
This must be because that “AI startup” that was actually 700 Indian guys recently shut down. They can’t remote control the Tesla robots any more.
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by bentt 1y ago
It's kind of simple really. You're either in or you're out. There's no halfway. Elon went halfway so he's out.
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by bentt 1y ago
If this kind of troll app is what we can expect from our vibe coded future, then I'm all for it.
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by bentt 1y ago
We are bad at most things that are complex and require behavior change. Maybe our best victory in recent years has been the vilification of tobacco. It didn't get any less physically pleasurable to smoke, but the combination of politic
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by bentt 1y ago
Zuck is looking for some way to make all those losses in Reality Labs make sense. Sweet justice for Palmer Luckey after being summarily ejected from his baby (Oculus).
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by bentt 1y ago
To me, LLM coding is done best when it's used as a bicycle. You still have to pedal, know where you're going, not get run over by a car.
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by bentt 1y ago
Yes even when coding and not conversing I often start new conversations where I take the current code and explain it new. This often gives better results than hammering on one conversation. This feels like something that can be fixed with m
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by bentt 1y ago
This is how I use LLM’s to code. I am still architecting, and the code it writes I could write given enough time and care, but the speed with which I can try ideas and make changes fundamentally alters what I will even attempt. It is very m
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by bentt 1y ago
People bust on Buffalo for the snow, but the dreariness makes up for it.
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by bentt 1y ago
Yes! It's vital that we continue to look for opportunities in the midst of such a crisis.
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by bentt 1y ago
I mean, sure. But some things are just really complex and the root causes are very, very difficult to pin down. There was a lot sad about COVID, but like 4000th on the list is how it revealed the human dynamics that lead to chronic diseases
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by bentt 1y ago
This is amazing and really needed in the northern US and Canada. It is also great they speak to the chronic lyme condition because many people get accused of it being psychosomatic or even false (similar with long Covid). Their theory of it
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by bentt 1y ago
That's where the real money is.
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by bentt 1y ago
Sony has never lied to itself that VR is a gateway to the metaverse. It tapped the TAM of VR gaming and saw it was small, not worth their attention. Rational actor compared to Zuck whose only goal is to dominate a future he is attempting to
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by bentt 1y ago
He has no vision other than “MINE”. He’s playing defense but nobody’s playing offense.
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by bentt 1y ago
This company is so untrustworthy, I don't see how anyone could dedicate any time to working with their platform or technology. Any acts of benevolence that they are putting forth now are sure to be followed by the most underhanded rug
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by bentt 1y ago
Oh I really like that. It makes me want to have it score its ideas with metrics and then keep iterating until it meets some score.
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by bentt 1y ago
Yeah my Dad used to take me to bars sometimes while he and a friend would sit and have some drinks. Not nice bars, real dives! I loved it.
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by bentt 1y ago
good point!
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by bentt 1y ago
One time my wife and I had a random conversation, utterly random, about cat hamster wheels. Like, why doesn't that exist? I got an ad for it the next day (it exists). I don't believe that my phone is not listening to me and I chal
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by bentt 1y ago
One technique that I think needs to come back into fashion, which was familiar to us Gen Xers, is to drag your kids along when socializing for you. Instead of prioritizing their play dates and sitting in the corner on our phones, we should
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by bentt 1y ago
Here's an idea. If a call is detected as a scam, provide an OS level hook for the call to be diverted to an app that can access an API. That'd be all that Apple and Google would do. At that point, App makers would get access to th
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by bentt 1y ago
It's not either/or. The legal system has its place, but so many scams are international and the jurisdiction is murky. Apple/Google are uniquely positioned here by owning the phone OSs.
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by bentt 1y ago
It boggles the mind that Apple and Google don’t take meaningful steps to combat this. Is it really that hard of a problem or do they just not care?
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by bentt 1y ago
We still have one of these and it still works! Amazing.
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by bentt 1y ago
"Meanwhile Instagram and Facebook keep evolving. Facebook is turning into a weird Reddit for older people. Instagram is turning into a hipper LinkedIn, where artists, musicians, and local businesses share career and business updates an
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by bentt 1y ago
Let's not forget that in America, when you have a college or university, you have historically created a money funnel from the government/parents, through the students, to the city. There's an outsized incentive to cater to t

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