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by willio58 6mo ago
I tried yesterday for about an hour to have Claude design make me a simple logo (just the symbol) and didn’t get anywhere good. I’m sure for certain things like UI it’s great, and so is just Claude code, but this Claude Design thing very mu
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by willio58 6mo ago
Agreed, and the answer is pretty obvious as to how they start making profit. The answer is in this thread, CRANKING the cost up immensely once they establish agreements between the duopoly leaders in the field to do so in tandem and buy up
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by willio58 6mo ago
I recently did the math and was floored to see I’d be spending 1.3k per year on streaming alone. So I said screw it, bought a nas and 36 TB of hard drives and set up an arr stack. I cancelled all of our streaming subscriptions 2 months ago
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by willio58 6mo ago
My entire company switched from open ai to entropic after the Department of War idiocy that happened a few weeks ago. Anthropic isn’t perfect by a long shot but at least they stand by a couple morals.
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by willio58 6mo ago
Can someone explain to me how we haven’t regulated the hell out of the clearly illegal sector of betting on shit that can clearly be insider-traded with little to no scrutiny? Leaders? Are you awake at the wheel?
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by willio58 6mo ago
I feel like getting obsessed about the strategic failure of this is missing the forest for the trees. Why did the U.S. assassinate the leader of a country across the planet in the first place? Because Benjamin Netanyahu wanted us to because
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by willio58 6mo ago
I was dumb enough when I was 11 to sign up for Adsense under my Mom’s name and put it on a php-based meme sharing site I made that my fellow 5th graders used. Anyway, I noticed I could make a couple dollars a week. So I had my friends sit t
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by willio58 6mo ago
Ha, we both reacted to the same 2 sentences in a very similar way at basically the same time!
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by willio58 6mo ago
> Marc Andreessen was right about web browsers. >But he has since been wrong about a great many things. Basically summarizes any billionaire. Society still seems to drink the kool-aid of billionaires. People think a guy has a billion
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by willio58 6mo ago
What way? Genuine curiosity
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by willio58 6mo ago
Had a buddy who works at a prestigious university teaching film history tell me their big boss is basically forcing all classes including his ones on film history to incorporate AI education in some way. So silly.
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by willio58 6mo ago
Friends of mine working in AI companies are saying we’ll be lucky if they only triple. More like 10-20x long term, especially for enterprise
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by willio58 6mo ago
> From my chair, they make an expensive database they try to sell to golf executives. This is basically it. You wouldn’t want to use oracle for anything, and they know that. What they also know, very very well, is that they can get their
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by willio58 6mo ago
God forbid people have a sense of their potential compensation before spending hours applying to a job! Good for Colorado passing that law. Shame on Digital Ocean for skirting around it.
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by willio58 7mo ago
I live in a state in the U.S. that’s had legalized gambling for decades. I grew up seeing gambling addicts walk around my city. It’s always been bad, but in my eyes it’s so much worse now that anyone can tip tap on their phone and gamble aw
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by willio58 7mo ago
> the server ecosystem was starting to come to life, even supported by IBM. I was in college at the time and doing some odd freelance jobs to make some money. Unbeknownst to my clients I was writing their website backends in swift, using
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by willio58 7mo ago
It’s not a presupposition based on nothing. It’s been all over the news. Here’s an NPR article from last month where they interviewed Melinda. https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697080/melinda-french-.
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by willio58 7mo ago
Love this idea. I wonder, does it work well? I haven’t messed much with this persona-based agent stuff. I’ve always heard “just tell it to be a senior dev, then ask it to do something and it will give you better output”, is that true in the
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by willio58 7mo ago
> It has said data centers are driving “unprecedented” demand. Unprecedented, sure, but not unpredictable. I live close to Tahoe and the data centers mentioned are ones not far from me. They keep popping up and it’s pretty obvious at thi
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by willio58 7mo ago
Mentioned below in a few comments but it was on the grounds of using his name/likeness.
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by willio58 7mo ago
There was a period of like 2 years when I was a kid where chuck Norris jokes were all the rage on the playground and I made an iPhone app that listed them all. Jokes like “Chuck Norris is able to slam a revolving door.” Anyway, I “built” th
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by willio58 7mo ago
> This is why I think we're headed for systemic collapse. Unfortunately I think the only thing that will save us long term is systematic collapse triggering mass social and political movements to tax the billionaires. We have severe
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by willio58 7mo ago
> Does that really happen "any time you go to a doctor's office"? Yes. I recently made a resolution to get established with all the medical professionals I don’t have set up. So a primary care, dermatologist, etc. over the
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by willio58 7mo ago
Tangentially related, but it is increasingly obvious that there's an ever-growing chasm between these two aspects of medicine in the U.S.: - What's possible for medical professionals to do for certain conditions, in large part due
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by willio58 7mo ago
Hank Green in collaboration with Cal Newport just released a video where Cal makes the argument for exactly that, that for many reasons not least being cost, smaller more targeted models will become more popular for the foreseeable future.
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by willio58 7mo ago
Just cancelled. I’ll give my money to a company with leaders that have a modicum of backbone.
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by willio58 7mo ago
Thanks for the reminder. Doing the same now. The little respect I had left for Sam is now wiped. Makes me sick. Growing up I always thought AI would be this beautiful tool, this thing that opens the gates to a new society where work becomes
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by willio58 7mo ago
> i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold. So deeply ironic considering he claims he’s doing this because AI can do the jobs these people did. These billionaires will learn one day that removing humans doesn’t s
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by willio58 8mo ago
Astro isn’t solving the same surface as next. Astro is great for static sites with some dynamic behavior. The same could be said about next depending on how you write your code, but next can also be used for highly dynamic websites. Using A
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by willio58 8mo ago
Someone at my job just said yesterday “I can’t see a reason to hire any additional devs in the future with AI being the way it is now” I disagreed vehemently, but it’s really gotten me thinking about just how screwed some orgs are. Especial

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