qntmfred

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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   correct
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   I told ChatGPT my mom's name the day my account got persistent memory, last april. I also told it to figure out my dad's name. Once a month or so I would ask it my mom and dad's name. By november it had figured out my dad&#x2
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   people can still write code by hand for fun people who want to make software that enables people to accomplish [task] will get the software they need quicker.
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   re: Japanese web design https://youtu.be/vi8pyS076a8
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   Plato wrote in Phaedrus This invention [writing] will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   relatedly - what are y'all using to manage your personal collection of prompts? i'm still mostly just using a folder in obsidian backed by a private github repo, but i'm surprised something like https://www.prompth
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   MCP to the rescue??
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   If you write open source code, expect it to be forked. It's kind of what open source is all about. Do it because sharing knowledge is a moral good. The wealth, influence, power, etc of whoever may decide to participate in your act of o
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   by qntmfred 1y ago

   I love limitless, I use the app all the time. I didn't buy the pendant, but I'm a big fan of the concept. https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1779971086974681455
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    by qntmfred 1y ago

    I have been using a Google Form with a single prompt to journal since 2016 https://x.com/kenwarner/status/1436385090679017477 I go for long walks at night a few times a week and find myself journaling a lot then.
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    by qntmfred 1y ago

    yup. embrace being a cog. enjoy your cog work as much as you can, but recognize it for what it is. don't tie your identity to it.
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    i have a morning routine and the first thing i do is to set a timer to meditate for 5 minutes. i rarely make it to 5 minutes before the thoughts flood in and i decide to go ahead and dive into the work. hadn't thought about making it a
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    nice work. i've used https://onetimesecret.com/ for this kind of thing for several years
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    my dad typically gets 3-4 hours sleep a night. when he was a kid he fractured his skull riding his bike and has a hard time getting comfortable laying on a pillow for very long. despite that he's been able to maintain a high performanc
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    same. some projects in that space from a comment I made a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39155977
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    I use the built-in voice typing in Windows and am pretty happy with it. How would you say this compares (presuming most of your comparisons are mac-centric)
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    if I'm working in Cursor for example, ideally the entire chat history and the proposed changes after each prompt need to be stored. that doesn't fit cleanly into current git development patterns. I don't want to have to type
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    I think the git usage patterns we've developed and grown accustomed to are proving inadequate for AI-first development. Maybe under the hood it will still be git, but the DX needs a huge revamp.
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    yet
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    I know what you mean in terms of frantic pace of "new stuff" coming out, but I winced at the comparison of innovation in AI to mere web development tooling.
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    Myself. I recorded and livestreamed about 1000 hours of my life last year. Think Google Photos but filling in the gaps. I use AI to generate daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly summaries. https://www.kenwarner.com/p
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    > i’m not positive on the answer, let me double check and get back to you. absolutely fair. I expect that LLMs will continue to get better at doing the same.
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    > Humans haven been trained, for better or worse, that computers are effectively infallible a TI-82, sure. I doubt many public opinion surveys would reveal that most people think computers generally or LLMs specifically are infallible. I
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    > You assume hundreds of millions of users could identify serious mistakes when they see them. But humans have demonstrated repeatedly that they can't. same is true for humans whether they're interacting with LLMs or other huma
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    make it livestream only
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    gary marcus = automatic thanks but no thanks
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    I built a tool for myself like this a while back. For me, the most common usage pattern was making a braindump bullet list of TODOs in Obsidian, realizing there were enough items that it wasn't immediately clear where to start, and the
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    I also started using traefik a while back with docker labels. it was a bit more to set up than I thought it would be, but now that I've figured it all out it's not too bad. at the time I had seem a lot of people talking about cadd
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    I post in public for a reason. ICE is welcome to read my social media just like everybody else.
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    by qntmfred 2y ago

    > When I was younger I never had the patience to learn from history. Now that most of my life is about understanding people rather than understanding code, I can't get enough history. This same phenomenon has hit me like a ton of br