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Well the attitude that puts a full stop (well a question mark) after "NIMBY" says implicity "where the poors live".

Very readable. Loved it. Perfect for the too online tech audience and brings magic of 70s/80s futurism with a nod to current AI and Cryptocurrency freaks with the use of "Maximalists". If you are a Gen X geek this is really fun read.

AI uBlock Blacklist 5 months ago

Problem is if this becomes popular and people being lazy assume blocked site means slop without checking, then the repo has a lot of power to break innocent sites.

I don't have an answer because as you say with power comes people wrangling over power. And claw sloperators can be way more persistent!

I Don't Like Magic 5 months ago

The difference is the loom is performing linear work.

Programming is famously non-linear. Small teams making billion dollar companies due to tech choices that avoid needing to scale up people.

Yes you need marketing, strategy, investment, sales etc. But on the engineering side, good choices mean big savings and scalability with few people.

The loom doesn't have these choises. There is no make a billion tshirts a day for a well configured loom.

Now AI might end up either side of this. It may be too sloppy to compete with very smart engineers, or it may become so good that like chess no one can beat it. At that point let it do everything and run the company.

He is a good writer. I also read to end and my attention span isn't good! I think the switching between what happened, what he felt and just the plain "daily WTF" rediculousness of the situations is what kept me locked in.

I Don't Like Magic 5 months ago

The AI pilled view is coding is knitting and AI is an automated loom.

But it is not quite the case. The hand coded solution may be quicker than AI at reaching the business goal.

If there is an elegant crafted solution that stays in prod 10 years and just works it is better than an initially quicker AI coded solution that needs more maintenance and demands a team to maintain it.

If AI (and especially bad operators of AI) codes you a city tower when you need a shed, the tower works and looks great but now you have 500k/y in maintaining it.

So really what I want is some sort of galaxy brained proxy where it can ask me for access to certain subsets of my inbox. No idea how to set that up though.

Though of the same idea. You could run a proxy that IMAP downloads the emails and then filters and acts as IMAP server. SMTP could be done the same limited to certain email addresses. You could run an independent AI harmful detector just in case.