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by dimal 1y ago
I think Apple may be in the process of being enshittified. Stuff like this, their complete failure to do anything useful with AI, the anti-accessibility of a Liquid Glass, and the simple observation of how many things in the Apple ecosystem
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by dimal 1y ago
People pay for software all the time. Hell I pay $30/month for a fucking email client (Superhuman). But no one has tried it for a social network. I think the problem is that people think a social network is worthless unless you hit Twi
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by dimal 1y ago
Does anyone else feel like at some point reality turned into an unpublished Neal Stephenson novel?
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by dimal 1y ago
Subtext: If you’re not under 30, with great eyesight, fuck you. If you’re neurodivergent, fuck you. If you just want to use your technology to do useful things and don’t need to be “delighted” by every button press and interaction, fuck you
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by dimal 1y ago
They can’t. They never will. That’s a different problem than the one they were built for. If we want AI that’s able to determine truth, it’s not going to come from LLMs.
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by dimal 1y ago
The type of person that would do that would have done the same thing without LLMs. LLMs don’t change anything except now they can just create their big ball of mud faster. The pain of shitty code doesn’t go away. They can ship your crappy M
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by dimal 1y ago
I don’t know about fixing python types, but fixing typescript types can be very time consuming. A LOT of programming work is like this —- not solving anything interesting or difficult, but just time-consuming drudgery. These tools have turn
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by dimal 1y ago
Everyone affected by this will know to look for those deeply nested setting, right? Or will the 70 year old with bad eyesight just stop being able to use their phone? Or use it a lot less, or be frustrated and stressed by it? A lot of peopl
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by dimal 1y ago
Autistic people tend to have very different sensory sensitivities than neurotypical people. Most are very highly sensitive and tend have trouble picking out a signal when there’s too much noise around it. To me, being socially awkward is ki
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by dimal 1y ago
Oh no. It looks like every button and menu is now a translucent layer, so that any noise from the background shows through and muddles the text. This seems like an accessibility nightmare. Translucent layers generally make software unusable
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by dimal 1y ago
If I’ve learned anything from the past few decades, something completely unexpected and even weirder than both will happen.
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by dimal 1y ago
How are people using Claude Code day to day without spending a lot? I tried it on a moderately complex task and it chewed through tokens at an alarming rate. I quickly spent $2 and hadn’t even arrived at an adequate solution yet. I’ve heard
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by dimal 1y ago
I’m conflicted about this as well. I’ve had a range of chronic illnesses my whole life. I’d love it if there was useful research into them. But after seeing decades with no progress, I have to conclude that most medical research into chroni
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by dimal 1y ago
Trust me, I am under enormous stress and pressure right now, more than at any other time in my life. I’m not someone sitting on a mountaintop, free of all cares. I’m someone trapped in a box that’s sinking under the waves, desperately tryin
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by dimal 1y ago
> a novice who outsources their thinking to an LLM or an agent (or both) will never develop those skills on their own. So where will the experts come from? Well, if you’re a novice, don’t do that. I learn things from LLMs all the time.
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by dimal 1y ago
Bugs? Those are grubby human work. Seriously, everyone should get good at fixing bugs. LLMs are terrible at it when it’s slightly non-obvious and since everyone is focusing on vibe coding, I doubt they’ll get any better.
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by dimal 1y ago
The swirly effects are probably used to distract from the problems of getting realism right.
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by dimal 1y ago
Depending on corporations to have a moral foundation is a losing bet. It has to come from the outside. Here’s a possible out: Senior engineers stop working huge corporations and use these tools to start their own businesses. (Given today’s
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by dimal 1y ago
Won’t these just make it less likely that you can publish your work, and end up damaging your career in the short term? As opposed to getting published, having a career, with a long tail risk of being found out later? And you could mitigate
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by dimal 1y ago
Please give specific examples. I keep seeing vague comments like this about her, but very little in the way of specifics. Without specifics, this is just ad hominem rumor mongering.
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by dimal 1y ago
I saw one startup with about fifty engineers, and dozens of services. They had all of the problems that the post describes. Getting anything done was nearly impossible until you were in the system for at least six months and knew how to w
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by dimal 1y ago
I wish we called hallucinations what they really are: bullshit. LLMs don’t perceive, so they can’t hallucinate. When a person bullshits, they’re not hallucinating or lying, they’re simply unconcerned with truth. They’re more interested in t
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by dimal 1y ago
This isn’t programming. It’s transclusion[0]. Essentially, iframes and images are already forms of transclusion, so why not transclude html and have the iframe expand to fit the content? As I wrote that, I realized there could be cumulative
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by dimal 1y ago
I would guess that for every app that was vibe coded and made $80k in revenue, there are thousands of attempts that went off a cliff or into a wall, generating $0 revenue and wasting a human’s time. So it’s just survivorship bias. Sure, it’
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by dimal 1y ago
I know it’s possible to work around it, but that’s not the point. This is such a common use case that it seems worthwhile to pave the cowpath. We’ve paved a lot of cowpaths that are far less trodden than this one. This is practically a co
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by dimal 1y ago
This was the rabbit hole that I started down in the late 90s and still haven’t come out of. I was the webmaster of the Analog Science Fiction website and I was building tons of static pages, each with the same header and side bar. It drove
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by dimal 1y ago
Don’t get them to make design decisions. They can’t do it. Often, I use LLMs to write the V1 of whatever module I’m working on. I try to get it to do the simplest thing that works and that’s it. Then I refactor it to be good . This is how
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by dimal 1y ago
I feel like they bit off more than they can chew. I want to like it, too. But they’re trying to create a whole new JavaScript ecosystem from the ground up, and a lot of it depends on maintaining a seamless compatibility layer that’s always
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by dimal 1y ago
> Shareholders are not the all and everything of a company. I agree with you. But what you or I think doesn't matter. > This is how the whole system is supposed to work. My point is that our current form of capitalism is designed
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by dimal 1y ago
I agree with all of this and hope it comes to pass. I don’t see how it’s possible without drastically changing the capitalist values that underpin our society. I think capitalism is the best way to structure an economy, but it’s a terrible

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