nicbou

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by nicbou 5d ago
Because that's the word you're using and the people you're talking about, so it's what I'm addressing. Economic migrants didn't have their lives saved. They were not welcomed to their host country as an act of
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by nicbou 5d ago
I use it to write in German, because my German sucks. I first write the thing myself, then feed it through Deepl Write to see how the AI would write it. It's been very helpful. I write everything else myself. However I don't know
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by nicbou 5d ago
I didn't say that they were refugees
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by nicbou 5d ago
I work with immigrants for a living. It's a wonderfully complex issue, but one that I rarely enjoy discussing because it either makes racist people go mask-off, or makes progressive people think you're a racist person going mask-o
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by nicbou 5d ago
I also think that the main fear - at least where I live - is not job loss but national identity and crime. At least that's what the anti-immigration political messaging is about. I haven't seen the job loss argument in the decade
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by nicbou 9d ago
I am feeling it pretty hard. My work is as important as ever, but my traffic is down 75%. I am competing with LLM slop, with the search engine itself, and with LLM agents that paraphrase my work. The worst part is that they're not repl
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by nicbou 11d ago
It’s not even that now. Companies just help themselves to our pockets. Products are downright user-hostile. They don’t even attempt to serve customers.
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by nicbou 11d ago
It can create tests to make sure that things keep working.
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by nicbou 12d ago
I just upgraded last week. For the most part, I really don't care. It was not a noticeable change.
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by nicbou 12d ago
That's all I want! A not-completely-useless Siri, and performance/quality of life improvements. MacOS is fine. For the most part it gets out of my way. However I have a laundry list of small issues that have been there since my fi
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by nicbou 14d ago
To add: I have started getting AI-generated outreach that opens with a personalised compliment, but that is clearly AI-written. I get more of those in a week than I used to get normal outreach in a month.
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by nicbou 14d ago
The problem is not attribution. I can tell who generated the slop I encounter.
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by nicbou 14d ago
Crypto always felt similarly cynical to me, but it was still somewhat niche. Now everyone must support AI because the entire economy is tied to it. Everyone's bonus depends on implementing it. Everyone's job search depends on chee
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by nicbou 14d ago
You could avoid it. AI slop is everywhere. https://nicolasbouliane.com/images/content2x/ai-slop-everywh...
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by nicbou 14d ago
We're dismantling and selling every remaining bit of trust between strangers, hoping to cash out before it's completely gone. It seems like the only active use case for AI. More of everything! Spam everyone! Drown the world in noi
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by nicbou 14d ago
You do not understand the comment you're replying to either
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by nicbou 14d ago
It's rather frustrating that after they crawled my website to use for their AI without my consent, and using that AI to slowly strangle my traffic, they're not happy that _other people_ are doing the same to them.
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by nicbou 16d ago
I used to sketch and take notes on the iPad Mini. It's a wonderful device for that. It's also nice to use Instapaper to read queued articles.
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by nicbou 16d ago
USB-C and the 5x lens made me switch to iOS. Likewise the 6th gen iPad Mini is what I was waiting for to get a tablet to sketch. Sometimes a device hits just right.
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by nicbou 17d ago
I carry an iPhone because I love the size. I carry an iPad to read. This would be nice, although I prefer to keep these devices separate. The iPad isn't connected to my life, so it can enter my bedroom. It's not a 2000 buck proble
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by nicbou 17d ago
Could it be that non-fiction is less competitive against other formats than fiction? I will read the book they made movies about. I don't feel that way about non-fiction.
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by nicbou 17d ago
I'm not surprised, and I don't see it as a problem. Every clothing store is the same. It just felt odd to blame a small part of your demographic as a matter of course.
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by nicbou 17d ago
There is just more of everything . It's as if the attention economy got flooded in the last two years, and everyone is drowning in noise. Plus reading is competing with all the other ways to spend time. Podcasts are great for nonficti
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by nicbou 18d ago
There is still craftsmanship on the web. I care. But as always, there are a lot of junior devs out there who never experienced their work on anything but their work computer. There are still deadlines and sprints and other competing pressur
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by nicbou 18d ago
I'm even worried about the current and past AI. Look at what we have used it for. Look at how it's drowning out hunan voices in spam. Look at what people promise it will do. I really wish I could see the potential of those technol
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by nicbou 19d ago
A forum for All About Berlin, so that immigrants can help each other. I got a few immigration experts on board and they will also help. I'm writing it myself to work on low-end hardware and survive on a bot-infested web. I wrote about
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by nicbou 20d ago
Like approaching a door and hearing a loud brawl on the other side
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by nicbou 22d ago
There's a bit of that in Ameristan, in his "Fall" novel. This whole part of the book feels prophetic now.
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by nicbou 22d ago
Thanks for writing this. This is how support groups start, when people find out that they're not the only ones going through this. When I opened up to friends (and wrote that post), it encouraged a whole lot of people to also open up.
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by nicbou 22d ago
In my case, my work is being devalued by AI.[0] The same effort nets smaller and smaller returns every month, even though the work is _still_ necessary, because AI does not do original investigative work. It's hard to put work into som

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