tomgp

4 ms·

1.
by tomgp 9d ago
Yeah, whilst I probably wouldn't go that far I take your point. I suppose the difference is in how people respond to the way games dress up their mechanisms and how interesting they find the decisions around the processes they perform.
2.
by tomgp 9d ago
I agree, they are just tools, but the way they are presented; taking natural language as their input and responding in kind strongly influences the way our brains react to them on a social level. That's what I mean by their social dime
3.
by tomgp 9d ago
The post has nothing to do with writing software. It would have as much value if it were written by someone who'd never written a line of code in their life. It's about the social dimension of LLMs and how the personality they pre
4.
by tomgp 16d ago
I'm really pleased for the devs and I like that they stuck to their guns and found their audience but... as someone who decided to get on board at the start of this year I understand the negative comments. I'd really like to explo
5.
by tomgp 17d ago
I see where you're coming from but I don't think the analogy really works because most peoples experience of the internet is entirely 100% mediated by facebook, google, ticktok etc. It's would be like the road network if you
6.
by tomgp 29d ago
First time I saw this idea was Berg's "Here and There" poster from 2009 (a year before Inception) though they acknowledge a bunch of earlier inspirations... https://berglondon.com/blog/2009/05/0
7.
by tomgp 2mo ago
That's when the players are playing club football.
8.
by tomgp 3mo ago
I think the issue is that the prose on the homepage gives off AI marketing BS "Everything you'd expect. Nothing you don't." "Native down to the pixels" etc. in an age where the web is stuffed full of low value
9.
by tomgp 4mo ago
60 year olds have been using computers most of their working life. Word processors and spreadsheets having been ubiquitous for office workers from at least the early 90s.
10.
by tomgp 4mo ago
I think this is true, it's like a close relation of the Gell-Mann amnesia effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#:~:text=%5B14...
11.
by tomgp 4mo ago
So glad you took the time to keep the site alive!
12.
by tomgp 5mo ago
I have it on a long timer so that I have to pause for a while before the auto-complete prompt appears. I've found I tend to deliberately set things up for it to attempt when I know I'm going to have to type a bunch of boiler plate
13.
by tomgp 5mo ago
What microsoft employees do in the privacy of their own meeting rooms has basically no effect on me. When Elon Musk appears along side Tommy Robinson in my city, espousing racist "great replacement" to a crowd of drunken thugs and
14.
by tomgp 5mo ago
Not much better but at least they're not speaking at far right rallys and lending support to fascist parties across Europe.
15.
by tomgp 7mo ago
That's what science is though * our intuition/ hunch/ guess is X * now let's design an experiment which can falsify X
16.
by tomgp 7mo ago
Interstingly a paper was published today which confirms accelerated warming whislt accounting for the effects of natural fluctations (el nino, volcanism and solar radiation etc) https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi&#x
17.
by tomgp 7mo ago
This feels lovely! The fact that it reacts to the pressure on my Wacom tablet puts it above many desktop tools and streets ahead of most stuff on the web. Fantastic work.
18.
by tomgp 7mo ago
Yes. Also there's a weird thing going on where the claims are simultaneously that these tools are super easy to use and everyone and their dog is going to be using them to create awesome software and that it's only going to get ea
19.
by tomgp 8mo ago
Yeah, this matches my experience, line by line I can probably write code quicker but producing lines of code has never really been the bottle neck, nor infact the point, in software development.
20.
by tomgp 8mo ago
The issue is that whilst the warning exists and is there front and centre, the marketing around ChatGPT etc - which is absolutely deafening in volume and enthusiasm - is that they're PHD level experts and can do anything. This marketin
21.
by tomgp 8mo ago
>Accept that most people flake This is a thing that's always surprised me when I've been in the US. How common it is to enthusiastically arrange to do some activity together, get a meal, play a game, have a drink, whatever, and
22.
by tomgp 10mo ago
HTML, CSS, Javascript?
23.
by tomgp 1y ago
As a customer I often look for the data model without a "moat". I want to be able to move my data to a different supplier without too much hassle
24.
It's Giving Enron: On the AI bubble, and the various echoes of the dotcom crash(davekarpf.substack.com)
5 points by tomgp 1y ago|1 comments
25.
by tomgp 1y ago
I think the reason is that Bitcoin et al were sold as having practical uses but their ‘success’ has been as a vehicle for speculation. Though the two things are linked (hype for the former drives adoption for the latter) and it’s possible t
26.
by tomgp 1y ago
This is a very accurate and concise summary of why I can't work in tech companies anymore. Recently I returned for a quick contract to develop a proof of concept app and almost immediately my stress levels whent through the roof. Just
27.
by tomgp 1y ago
the behaviour was already bad (sharing your personal information with 1000s of “trusted partners”), companies just want to keep doing it even if it inconveniences their users.
28.
by tomgp 1y ago
yes! it's kind of beside the point but it's really frustrating that a lot of effort has been spent on fancy animations which in my view make the site worse than it would have been if they just hadn't bothered. And with all th
29.
by tomgp 1y ago
In Britain it’s noticeable that as unemployment benefit and social housing has been stripped back the proportion of people from working class backgrounds with careers in the arts has declined. The most visible example of this is probably ac
30.
by tomgp 1y ago
This is really excellent advice.

More ›