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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
Heavily. There’s an amount of true believers who actually think RSI is going to happen any day now, but you can spot patterns amongst brand new booster accounts… I real life I meet people who like AI and people who hate it, but nobody who’s
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
The tell is they don't know it. People who read a lot or get deep into history podcasts and have a hot take on the French Revolution know that this is some whacky shit and if they bring it up explain it first. TikTok people say the cra
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
> The cost for the same quality of output is going to drop at least 10x over the next 18-24 months. How do you know that? In 2026 the prices have been spiking. It now costs orders of magnitude more than it did in November.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
What this looks like it practice: enterprise SaaS vendor introduces bug, I report the bug, get a canned AI response because literally nobody cares, and it never gets fixed. The product continues to deteriorate. No, it’s not just one vendor.
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by coffeefirst 4mo ago
I've been thinking a lot about this. The desktop that I grew up using was fundamentally a creative machine. It had games, but I mostly used it write fiction and make art-like stuff. When we got the internet it was AIM and movie trailer
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I’m not sure that’s true. All my side projects exist to scratch my own itch, so the appeal to hop straight from design to done is really appealing. But it’s never really that straightforward. There is some truth to the idea that some people
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
It’s not just you. My last dumb pilot program making a Pocket clone in Python also got stuck in a loop regularly, which should be its strong suit... I suspect that the “right” way to use LMs in coding, including accounting for focus, contro
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
This is a terminally online thing. It makes people more extreme. It also prevents them from realizing just how intense their POV is when everyone in their internet bubble is one upping each other. In the real world I still encounter more mo
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I’ve been thinking about this—if I wanted to learn iOS dev where should I start? (Book preferred.) Mostly for fun/scratch my own itch, and using AI as a companion/helper device.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Understanding the DOM. Understanding performance. Understanding closures. Knowing how an event bubbles. Understanding CSS… at all. The effect of this is that people who never learned those things are working with a limited toolkit both in s
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
It's really telling. > the thinking time disappeared It did not. The author decided against spending time thinking. Nobody is following him around whacking him on the head if he blocks off tomorrow morning to go heads down on someth
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I do this too. LLMs are amazing at finding weird trivia deep in the docs. But you have to go check the original. The machine is often correct-ish.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I’ve seen no reason to believe it’s even possible to solve this. The worst thing about LLMs is they can pass the Turing test, leading people to believe they have an Asimov style robot instead of a very cool statistical model. It feels like
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Like this? https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-postmortal-a-novel-drew-mag... (I highly recommend the book. I do not recommend the world it imagines.)
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I think the comparison is that they just seem to give a shit about putting out a very good product. Filter and snooze automatically is probably my favorite unique capability but it’s less one thing than the overall ethos and execution. Also
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I’ve started to undo it. Not everything, but I went back and bought used copies of every ebook that I wanted to keep forever. It was pretty cheap (many used books are $1) and feels good to have my full library browsable and free from any pl
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I would have said the same about search, but, well…
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
We are about to test that theory.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Right. So that's what one guy can do. When you realize how much astroturf is going into Reddit, most social media platforms, and the efforts to manipulate wikipedia for political gain, this is a very real problem.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I agree, and with a little nuance: There's a lot of overlap between people who cannot stand the AI boosters, don't want a data center built anywhere near them, are sick of the slop, and still use a chatbot for some stuff. I don&#x
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I know. I actually use it a lot. But the way you assemble shortcuts leaves a lot to be desired for anything nontrivial.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Agreed. The ideal implementation of AI for Apple is probably to finally make Siri work. This isn’t necessary fancy, just let me set some calendar events without knowing the magic words or tell it to open Overcast and play the new Gastropod
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Okay. How? I have a little boy. He does not use computers yet. One day he will. His friends will have YouTube or it’s spiritual successor and everyone in his school will be on TikTok where they’re hammered with whatever brainrot gets the mo
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
I believe this is sometimes called The Lethal Trifecta.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Yep. Every 7 years.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Correct. Tests don’t tell you the code works. They tell you that something changed that impacts the test since the last time it did work.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Which is super fun as a user because every day something doesn’t work and it’s a different something than yesterday.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
The AI Bros definition of efficiency is about how efficiently you burn tokens to make number go up.
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
The first thing I did when I quit social media was sign up for the newsletter of every concert venue in town. I never overlooked a show. I can’t speak to your interests or city, but as a rule, the greatest trick the social apps ever pulled
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by coffeefirst 5mo ago
Honestly the damage done by TikTok et al is so severe that I’m okay with a little collateral damage. We will build new things. But I also see no reason you can’t separate out forums with upvoting from the personalized engagement optimized f

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