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steve vai the guitarist talks about how learning and doing the act gives you dignity and self respect for having done something. That's what's being cutout when you just 'prompt' it, be it words, code, or music.

i really never want to be an early adopter anymore. I need 6 months of vetting to determine if it's the flavor of the week (or flavor of the DAY)

it seems like these types of problems have gained frequency in the ai era, or is it just recency bias?

I've been waiting for a steelman argument why building the world's best deepfake machine is a good thing. Unironically cryptography could verify identity for all comms.

ai eliminating friction is eliminating learning and understanding. this is felt with more severe consequences in K-12 writing and music.

LLMs to create and revise PIL (python image library) commands/params have saved me HOURs.

this time they stole from people who have the resources to fight back

my pet peeve is that these ai notetakers, like otter arrive to the web conf before their user.

tokenmaxxing will be a funny footnote like nfts on the tonight show 2 years post-hype

a football coach is not required to do all the drills and that doesn't make him a hypocrite

when the law won't protect you it creates an opportunity for a mafia like protection racket

this is like ai use in arts to some degree, people don't want to write, they want to 'have written' and collect the social status that they think it confers. People don't want to code or make products better (or even understand the details) they want 'lines of code' or 'commit' or a pretty github green profile.

tech will do anything to normalize theft and call it innovation

tech blogs used to read like actionable readme guides. I couldn't finish it without thinking: what am I supposed to do with this information? The shelf life of the latest and greatest is about 2 weeks in the AI space. I never caught up to the ralph wiggum loop and now I'm glad I never tried.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682325

the feeling of why create anything if it'll just be stolen by AI has to be at least somewhat novel.

reminds me of this woman who had copyright filed against her for playing moonlight sonata. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27004577 if not for the complete hassle and threat to her livelihood, it might be laughable.

with cursor it still feels like coding, all the others are diff checks it seems like.

there's so many apps, I'm sorta where murakami was to filter out novels he'd consider reading. A good app needs to be validated through the sands of time before I consider replacing something that already exists on my machine (and was probably free).

Agree that even prior to LLMs those projects weren't terribly welcoming as per Linus' famous email comments (chalk it up to cultural communication differences :) )

the analogy would be that your LLM/agent has a pass at a Spielberg script and peppers his inbox with inane production notes. A system like that would be untenable for all involved.

I - and many, many others - learned flask from his mega-guide that he obviously spent a lot of time working on.

I feel bad for people like him who get the brunt of dilettantes who can "code" polluting his time and focus. Reminds me of that mitch hedberg joke: "When someone hands you a flyer, it's like they're saying here you throw this away." but for PRs

it looks like it was built using the satire vibecoding components listed here yesterday https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/

suno produces 7m "professional" songs per day. Can't think of a better example of a slop generator. Many songs that will never get more than a handful of listens if it all.

something to be said for listening to the same cd over and over due to limited options, where you really get to know the tracks inside and out.

I've pretty much avoided it by going to Gmail->Settings and disabling "smart" features:

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I feel bad for this generation who will have to listen to prompted eulogies and wedding toasts. And worse for the genuine writers who now will be accused of having done so.

Oh don't me wrong, it's bad and we're going to suffer through terrible web apps for the foreseeable future spat out in the 1000s per day. Like all slop songs, images, videos and articles. Hardly a reward for building something artisanal in the digital space

between this and the 'ai actress' who got press in variety; and with the 'friend.com' bits. The ai industry has gotten good at stunt marketing, or maybe it's payola

Everyone had a chance to learn vanilla js from the mozilla docs but using jquery was much much simpler. Concede that jquery is more difficult than prompting. The issue for me is that prompting a front end and everything looks exactly the same. More cookie cutter than what wordpress and wix offered

The only AI screenshots I like to read are when it's comically wrong and we both get a quick laugh