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I just tried and it looks like I can do this in Chrome on Android relatively easily. The UI could be a lot nicer for it though.

And I did run into an issue where if the site allows me to install it as a PWA, Chrome will want to do that and won't want to bookmark a specific page on that site instead.

Also, maybe your point was that this could be done at the OS level rather than the browser, which is fair.

My wife (head of accounting for a small business) has been working on automating large parts of her job using AI.

It's not completely reliable and the human cannot be taken out of the loop, but the number of menial tasks she's been able to automate has been really cool. A lot of processing data that arrives in non-standard formats, generating documents based on that data, etc.

She still has to review everything, but her workload is way down, and when her assistant quit she automated away his whole position.

FAANG Simulator 14 days ago

Not everyone, no, but some people do choose to avoid lifestyle creep, or at least have a lot less of it than their peers. I'm just saying it's optional and not inevitable.

FAANG Simulator 14 days ago

Automatic lifestyle creep with promotions? Well, it's definitely not a FIRE simulator.

Sure, but arguably education is the easy part. The even harder problem is aligning incentives/values and avoiding a tragedy of the commons sort of situation.

If the decision-makers are elected by the people, it's not a dictatorship, no matter how many atrocities the nation commits.

You can have some gray area I guess, with unfair elections or whatever, but when the bad decisions are made by leaders who keep on getting re-elected in reasonably fair elections, we do not have a dictatorship.

I suspect because some of these things would require us all to say no, which is difficult to coordinate and enforce.

It's not impossible, but it's not as easy as "just" saying no, as a society.

I read some of the article and skimmed the rest, and didn't see anything about old-fashioned search no longer being an option.

Is the idea that by making the new AI chat UX the default, that's how they're forcing people into it and making them not able to search? Or is there something I'm missing?

With that diversity of preferences, some organizations might also be willing and able to do rigorous testing of the updates that are most important to them.

It seems like a helpful efficiency to spread out the testing burden (both deliberate testing and just updating and running into unexpected issues). If everyone updated everything immediately, everyone would be impacted by the same problems at the same time, which seems suboptimal.

If 1% of the people in each specialization are advancers, and you add up all the specializations together, then 1% of the total number of people are advancers.

Even this assumes that everyone has a specialization in which 1% of people contribute to the sum of human knowledge. I would probably challenge that. There are a lot of people in the world who do not do knowledge-oriented work at all.

"Vibecoding" is about how you use AI tools, rather than who you are.

If you're asking the AI to generate large amounts of code that you don't really look at, you're definitely vibecoding. If you are mainly writing the code yourself with some assistance from AI tools, you are not vibecoding.

Naturally it's fuzzy in the middle. And for people without software development skills, vibecoding is the only option they have.

Take One Small Step 7 months ago

If you aren't any closer to the goal after the step than you were before it, you didn't take a step towards the goal.

JSDoc is TypeScript 7 months ago

I recently used Preact and HTM for a small side project, for the JSX-like syntax without a build step.