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by jmathai 5d ago
I know this post is about Noodle, but I want to talk about Immich. I believe I've spent, perhaps, the most time of anyone on earth on digital photo management (hard to quantify, but since 2005 - 2 startups, one acquisition, and an ongo
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by jmathai 5d ago
I’ve been a paying customer of Dropbox’s consumer plan for over a decade. Each time I visit their website I am greeted with a full page modal ad asking me to upgrade to a different plan I have no use for. I’ve dismissed it every time. I don
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by jmathai 6d ago
I'm not sure why, exactly. But I don't pay any attention to news like this from Google. I don't know if there's some marketing which has me writing them off or if it's something else. What I do know is that the Gemi
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by jmathai 6d ago
That’s very close to my setup. Agree it’s a massive shift that doesn’t even resemble how I used to create products before. https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/sojourn-for-ios-was-45-one...
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by jmathai 6d ago
This is an example where AI is likely safer, better and more deterministic than humans.
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by jmathai 6d ago
I don’t think they care enough to limit the use of their own products to trust them to help solve the problem.
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by jmathai 6d ago
I agree with the article - I don’t see how exposing children to AI in school ends well. I don’t think we should expose developing minds to much tat we haven’t had a lot of time exposure understanding the impacts of cough social media cough
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by jmathai 6d ago
I understand roundabouts are safer. But am I the only one who struggles to use ones with multiple lanes properly anytime not making an immediate right?
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by jmathai 6d ago
I wish we, as a society, would label companies which cause more harm than good as such.
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by jmathai 9d ago
I would go one step further. Instead of 5 low impact features, build the one high impact one. Instead of a cheap notifications hub, fix the need for why you need one.
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by jmathai 9d ago
> so many here have deeply conflicted interests What do you mean by this? I use AI both personally and for work but I'm not conflicted at all about its use for things we generally agree are harmful.
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by jmathai 9d ago
I have written A LOT of PHP in my life. Not so much anymore but I only have fond memories of the community - thanks to folks like you. Kudos.
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by jmathai 9d ago
I come to HN to learn things I never realized I wanted to know.
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by jmathai 9d ago
Yeah - I'm sure folks have pushed it further than I have. But this is what I've seen with my own eyes as opposed to read from others. And even at 471, I'm impressed.
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by jmathai 9d ago
Do you save the plans from plan mode alongside of the feature? I use specs to save the artifact but hadn't thought of using plan mode as the spec generator itself.
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by jmathai 10d ago
I have a super simple spec-based workflow. It works amazingly well. I’m amazed how well coding agents can work through what I consider large features. Last week, I gave a 471 line spec to implement a major feature and it didn’t flinch. I wr
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by jmathai 10d ago
What you describe, is what's needed to make a good product whether it's vibe coded or written completely by hand.
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by jmathai 10d ago
Zuck is either an idiot or a liar. You pick. > People won't want to use agents that are misaligned with them and that don't do what they ask He runs a company that recently lost a lawsuit because you manipulatively addicted chi
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by jmathai 13d ago
For context for those outside the US, this is a play on a common saying "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." It's commonly used in relation to the 2nd amendment which gives citizens the right to bear arms. It co
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by jmathai 15d ago
I hear the words you're saying. But this was not the case for myself setting up Wordpress and trying to help a non-technical user navigate the admin dashboard to manage their content.
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by jmathai 15d ago
I think a large % of Wordpress usage is for simple websites that are better served by tools simpler than Wordpress. I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience
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Sojourn for iOS Was 45 One-Shot Prompts(jaisenmathai.com)
2 points by jmathai 15d ago|0 comments
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by jmathai 15d ago
I haven't used Astra or Fable much. It's because Opus 4.8 is doing everything I need and I feel confident in using it. Why fix what's not broken? The model isn't the limiting factor for me right now. I just wrote about m
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by jmathai 16d ago
I just came here to say that I tried setting Wordpress up for someone a couple weeks ago and the entire admin experience felt like someone designed it WHILE AT burning man.
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by jmathai 16d ago
There is a simple version of this idea that really resonates with me. For about a decade, I've been using flat files on disk or object storage for most of my side projects. There's even a python library that handles some of the pl
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by jmathai 17d ago
I'm not sure "most" people have taste (assuming taste isn't subjective). I don't think AI slop is indicative of taste. A lot of work doesn't care about taste at all. And AI slop is problematic in that it churns
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by jmathai 17d ago
A lot more people have taste than have previously been able to materialize it. With AI, I created printable artifacts for a booth of a nonprofit I advise. We don't have a "creative" on the team but I'm fluent with all o
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by jmathai 17d ago
This is true :P.
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by jmathai 17d ago
I don't even need to read a Bloomberg report to know this. I've personally experienced noticeable mental decline as my AI usage at work has gone up. I can only imagine what it does to children whose brains are still developing. I&
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by jmathai 17d ago
YC funded Flock 10 years ago is even more accurate. I get that Flock is now a pretty obnoxious company but it's hard to attribute that to YC.

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