jibolash

Unfortunately technological progress is not always exponential. An human landed on the moon 56 years ago and people back then thought space travel would be a routine thing today so it'll be interesting to see how things go

Because too many people take Sam Altman's takes too seriously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5vsEUgxt3E

Okay Tarzan

So every individual becomes a company? The natural tendency of capitalism is to create bigger companies for "scale". Even if it was possible, what exactly would be the benefit of one person companies?

The problem here is the asymmetric nature of outcomes. The vast majority of these types of interactions will be positive, but it only takes 1 to ruin someone's life or reputation, that forces over-correction in behavior

Open source quiz creator to create quizzes by pasting in text or selecting from a large range of historical categories.

Started as a very simple app for me to play around with OpenAI’s API last year then morphed into a portfolio project during my job search earlier this year. Now happily employed but still hacking on it.

Right now, a user can create a quiz, take a quiz, save it and share the quiz with other people using a URL.

Demo: You can try out the full working application at https://quizknit.com

Github Links: Frontend: https://github.com/jibolash/quizknit-react , Backend: https://github.com/jibolash/quizknit-api

The possibility that OpenAI, Anthropic or other companies in the space can lose their investors money does not make the technology a "con". As long as they do not try to pass their losses to the tax payers, how is this a problem? If anything, the history of tech has abundant examples of the first movers in a space not capturing the eventual economic value.

It is ridiculous to say that generative AI is a con at this point when it is by far the best way to search the internet (in spite of hallucinations).

I am using OpenAI's API for the movie recommendations based on the user's input and pulling the movie metadata from OMDb (https://www.omdbapi.com/)

Curious why you are referring to the termination fee as an investment, does Adobe get anything back in return for it?

Along those lines, maybe that would have been a better course of action in the first place, give Figma some money as an investor and own a piece of the upside as Figma grows, would probably have faced little or no regulatory resistance

This category of drugs are referred to as Behind the Counter, https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/legal-requi...

This was a thing in Nigeria in the early 2000s too. We called it flashing.

Great article. Like every good piece of satire, the lines between what happens in real life and the parts that the author exaggerates is blurry.

Nope, not ever. Five years, 3 companies, every single codebase has been a nightmare. The funny thing is that in all these companies, everyone talks the talk and uses all the standard buzzwords about test driven development, clean code and all, it just doesn't quite seem to reflect in the actual output.

You realize you are speaking of a 6 year old language right? For some reason, it sounds like you are referring to some newly launched shiny new language that nobody has ever done anything with.

Imposer syndrome alert. First, wait till tomorrow, see if you feel the same way. From experience, you're probably just in a mood bad because of some difficult task. If you still feel the same way tomorrow, then my advice will be to just take a more deliberate approach to learning. Nobody holds on to details like "very basic OOP concepts" all the time. If you're in a funk because of an interview screw up, get over it. Interviewing is a job in itself. Take time to prepare (3 months at least) and see if you still feel the same way.

Sleep at least 6 hours every day to see the positive effects of those two things compound dramatically

There's also something about the competitive aspect of seeing other people in person do better than you or have better ideas than you. Which is hard virtually.

Maybe even this is not that hard. People already compete virtually on mobile and console games of all kinds of complexity just to see their names at the top of a "leaderboard"

True. I find you can get a pretty good idea of what a company's tech stack is by looking at their engineering job descriptions