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The Grok ones are so weird that they cross into uncanny and surreal. Truly bizarre and capable of eliciting feelings from me, if only bad feelings…

One of the testimonials said it took some time to click… I’m not there yet. Maybe some clearer examples?

I experience this on Facebook on iOS. Glad I’m not the only one. Super irritating.

FWIW, the creator’s Insta post for this thing says #vibecoding

@shapiro500

No shade if so, I think it’s an awesome little toy.

At $4 per month, I don’t consider it expensive at all to have this whole category of problem solved for me. Mobile app, desktop, laptop synced flawlessly and quickly.

Iowa doesn’t grow an appreciable amount of tobacco, though.

The point is that even in case of total product management failure, the cost of failing is much lower both in time and money.

As the father of a 2- and 4-year-old, this project is repulsive.

Like many parents, I found that standard bedtime stories didn't always capture their unique imagination. So, I built Lyra Kids (https://lyra.kids) to turn our nightly ritual into something more magical.

We have the standard template product pitch here (“Unlike our competitors, our product does XYZ”) but turned against _the entirety of children’s literature_.

You really think that many parents find “standard bedtime stories” insufficient?

Look, we have a couple of those books that use your kid’s name and a custom illustration that resembles them. They’re about as sophisticated as a Hallmark card and equally unrewarding. The kids get a kick out of it, but it’s a rare amusement and not actual interest. You don’t talk about the plot or the characters of a Mad Lib.

I’ll set aside my moral outrage and assume that you wanted to build this project no matter what and backed into the product positioning later, because the alternative is too depressing to consider.

Hah! This website throws up a modal and blocks browser-native Copy Text functionality with both Ctrl + C and right click > Copy. Haven't seen that in a long time.

Hilarious. It seemed to focus on something about Boolean logic that I don’t remember taking about, but otherwise awesome.

Are you sharing any of the prompts you used to generate this? Even if not verbatim, I’m interested to know how much you’re driving versus the model. How much more prompt is there than, “look at this comment history and write 3 roasts that the HN crowd will find funny”?

The major model providers use system cards as a sort of self attestation document like a nutrition label. It’s been around for a couple years.

Must one personally be subject to a law in order to interpret it?

“…featuring the Intel Core Duo processor and a gorgeous new 13-inch glossy widescreen display…”

“…the MacBook provides incredibly crisp images with richer colors, deeper blacks and significantly greater contrast…”

This is positioning for glossy being superior.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2006/05/16Apple-Unveils-New-M...

This is my personal design AI use case. Scaffold out the prototype for me so I can click around and see if it feels right.

This article is based on vibes just like the trends it hypothesizes.

To pick just one claim:

“Big companies used to move slowly, but now a ragtag team of two developers at a large firm can whip up something that looks top-of-market to the untrained eye in a matter of weeks.”

This is just pure speculation with no consideration of success or longevity. Big companies are going faster now? Where? Which ones?

AI coding allows you to build prototypes quickly. All the reasons big companies are slow haven’t budged.

To me it’s more like TikTokification. Nothing on your mind? Open up ChatGPT and we have infinite mindless content to shovel into your brain.

It turns proactive writing into purely passive consumption.

I’m think you might agree, though, that the likelihood of one premise is significantly greater than the other!

people with trouble manipulating boolean tables of 3 variables in their head

To be fair, 3 booleans (2^3=8) is more working memory than most people are productive with. Way more if they’re nullable :)

No, the reality of this situation is that people need to save a snapshot of what the LLM said when they read it, just in case they need to substantiate it or blame someone for what they read at the time.

a single short word

“Automattician”

The word you’re looking for is employee.

reality television for computer people

Complete with computer people kayfabe!

(The perks are free charging and low interest rates on car loans)

Yes, they will pee anywhere because their whole lives they’ve been covered in a soft diaper. But it doesn’t take long for them to learn that is an uncomfortable feeling in normal underwear and there’s an incentive to use the toilet.

Rouch said that “the whole space is learning” but emphasized that “authenticity really matters.”

The dissonance is just wild.

“This is a celebration of human creativity and an extension of human creativity,” Rouch says, addressing the decision not to use AI-generated content in the final product.

The mental gymnastics! Our product changes everything, except this ad, because we know that people hate inauthenticity in communication.

In addition to GOOG-411, this brings back memories of ChaCha search via SMS.

You could text a question to CHA-CHA (242-242) and someone would google it for you as a human search engine!

And EV batteries turn out to be very recyclable.

Can someone explain what it is that makes batteries wear out to begin with, and what has to be added back to make them work again after they’re shredded into “black mass”?

iMac with M4 features the world’s fastest CPU core, making multitasking across apps like Safari and Excel lightning fast.

This stuck out for me too, plus the examples of using Siri on the desktop. I reckon that invoking Siri to say, "Send Gema a text" and then having to proofread and approve the message is more effort than just sending Gema a text. Same for typing out "turn on do not disturb".

You could imagine the argument being that there are a lot of deep settings or hidden controls that people would like to find, but then wouldn't a vector search that shows relevant settings be just about the same outcome?

That bad, huh? I reckon everything you mentioned has a perfect substitute. What am I missing?

Are you kidding? Absolutely. For moving violations you can look forward to the ticket itself plus increased insurance premiums.

I was surprised to see 0 results for “leak” on this article. Frank Lloyd Wright’s houses were famous for having flat roofs and leaking. Anyone know whether these flat roofs suffered the same fate?