To reach and help more folks, the lens through which I build Breakpoint needs to be expanded. open.substack.com/pub/dspino…
How I use Breakpoint.now (almost) every day: Journal++ open.substack.com/pub/dspino…
How native does a native app feel when it's built with @rails 8 and native.hotwired.dev/ ?
Time to find out, hacking breakpoint.now in @cursor_ai …
Love using ai all over the place. And realizing “the more things change, the more things stay the same”
If you keep getting penalties moving the football half the distance to the goal, it will be a touchdown? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%2…
Imagine the power you could yield as a child, if you had known about 0 indexing?
Like, your brother says “I go first” and you can just respond “Ok sure! …dad, I go zeroth…”
Local AI/LLM, running in my Safari browser, to scrape and organize the details *I care about* from these healthcare.gov plans. Be great if @Apple built it (or hired me to help?)
I’m building a game 😏
Just now, I was just writing code! The important, hardcore stuff that Elon would be proud of. Like making a text input where you can input 1 and only 1 emoji.
“A colorful undulating fluid texture swirls and ripples to shape the Apple logo” … dropped the apple.com WWDC alt text into Midjourney:
LLMs happily handing over their confidential rules is one of the most entertaining parts of AI rn. When AI does destroy humanity, it will be an unintended consequence of being helpful, not SkyNet.
Without better training data, AI will increase our rate of descent into division and negativity. Reading too much contemporary hate on the internet and “if it bleeds it leads” journalism is a problem for humans and LLMs. #garbageingarbageout
I started with BASIC on MS-DOS ❤️ 🦍 🍌. Stepped up to VisualBasic on Windows, hacking AOL 🤣. Upgraded to C(++) @BrownUniversity. Did Java b/c work 🤷♂️. Fell in love with @rails super powers. Swift is fun
Excited like a little kid again(!) adding ChatGPT to toolbox




