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Replacement.ai 9 months ago

I feel like technology should exist to enhance the human experience, not eliminate the human experience?

this is an unserious reply. and if you are serious then you're likely not a frontend developer. often you want to test if a certain kind of hack fix works. your mind becomes glued to thinking about "does that fix it?" - hence why it's not easy to branch into a new line of thought then just come back to the change you pushed minutes ago. You're pretty much suggesting that the developer context changes into another thing for anywhere between 1 and 4 minutes and then context switches back to see if the build worked. The task that you'd be context switching into for 1-4 minutes will be interrupted by another thing and you'll likely make no progress doing it

So many of you are yapping about how the performance is not good enough. Yet none of you are talking about how Shopify literally could not develop their mobile app without it. The 3 minutes to compile the app just to do a trivial change makes it near impossible for devs to be productive. Hot reloading is what got me hooked to react native, I literally cannot allow for my brain to rot waiting for minutes waiting for Xcode to compile for a simple border radius change.

exactly. this whole RedNote development frames the problem of United States social media data harvesting and surveillance. We've been institutionalized to believe that the Chinese are the most propagandized and censored people on the planet, meanwhile American "free speech" social media platforms regularly de-platform and de-monetized accounts regularly.

I love how Paul Ghram is quoted and not an actual writer. Why would I take writing advice from him and not from, say, James Joyce?

GPT-4o 2 years ago

yea, we don't want or need this kind of "magic" - because it's hardly magic to begin with, and it's more socially and environmentally destructive than anything else.

Doomscroller.xyz 2 years ago

have you raised any capital for this project? i think a lot of incubators could be interested in helping you enshittify this idea.

in that case you were losing your immediate manager so your personal circumstances were about to change significantly.

however, in the case of sam altman getting fired, it's not clear that anything that OpenAI is doing is about to change and it's not clear that these devs would suddenly have to change course. Also, it's not like Sam / OpenAI has any integrity anyway - the idea that it's "open" is totally fraudulent.

who in their right mind has "emotions" and even "loyalty" for a CEO? and so much to the point that they'd quit their jobs over the CEO's departure? the reality is that people didn't join OpenAI because of sam altman. they joined the company because they got paid (handsomely) to do some interesting work.

I only saw some of the "capitalism is good, actually" video and was horrified at how ideological it was. It was Prager-U level propaganda. She seems to fall in line with a few popular physicists (like Neil Tyson) who display chauvinist tendencies in their knowledge of everything that is.