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Although well orchestrated agentic workspace could write most (if not to say 100%) of the code for me, I'd still feel more comfortable to have it use a language that I feel myself confident with. Not necessarily because I'd want to read through the code. But still, occasionally it is easier for me to check something out by looking directly into the code rather than wasting time and tokens to haggle with AI model on some nitti-gritty detail. And, more importantly, I want to be able to understand the maintenance of and be able to troubleshoot the deployment stacks related to the programming language -- their virtues, their quircks, their security postures etc etc etc.

The tool is silly indeed -- use with care in situations where meetings have value.

That is a tempting thought. Anybody else working in a Teams hellscape?

Meeting duration x N participants = how much human life time burned?

Put it on big screen, hit Start. Display runs in realtime speed, multiplied by the number of people. Everybody will see how much human lifetime gets burned in a matter of minutes. Hit Stop in the end. You’ll get the receipt, send it to participants as a post-mortem to digest what just happened.

In some inexplicable circumstances I ended up attending a sort of leadership training last weekend. In another coffee break, after enduring a “hands-on exercise” of holding a “meeting about discussing how to make meetings productive”, I couldn’t help myself but create the thing in one sitting. One prompt. One single html file, all necessary JS & CSS included. Upload it to cloudflare pages. Done. The thing that you see here is not exactly the version back those couple of days, though, but functionally identical. The initial design was ugly to my tastes. Got a bit better version from claude.ai/design after returning from the “leadership training”.

The tool is silly, but I enjoyed the soothing therapeutic experience of creating it. If you look at it, do you see any corporate silliness still not properly getting captured by the meeting receipt?

For those for whom the gym seems too intimidating to start convos with strangers, another option is to try spotting and signing up to the hobbies where social interaction comes naturally, if not even unavoidably. Things like amateur choir singing (which I do), amateur folk dancing groups, sports clubs where people train in interactive groups (a cross-country ski club in my case), etc. -- these give regularity and allow the persisting social interactions with the same people over longer periods of time to form into true friendships.

I am guessing the open source locally run models will become more appreciated in value when the enshitification reaches the industry. Any guesses on how much time we still have until then?

Sounds plausible indeed. Anyways, neanderthals operating a large scale fat production 125 thousand years ago could be a good plot for another hollywood movie scenario. Any takers?

Fascinating. Considering the industrial scale fat production that the neanderthals managed to operate according to this article, it makes me wonder even more whether we still understand why exactly they went extinct in 80 thousand years later.

Ah, trip down the memory lane... I guess I have to try to recall now how the game was played. There is a great likelihood last time was more than 25 years ago.