Participant in the human experiment awaiting results. Interests: armchair economics/psychology/climate/etc, music Bad at trading. I hope everyone finds peace.
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Other things about 1 in 4 people believe:
Chemtrails, sun revolving around the earth, fake moon landing, the living and dead can communicate, Clairvoyance, astrology, witches are real, reincarnation, ancient aliens
Why should society entertain the fringe?
AI hit critical mass with tech nerds. I surveyed my entrepreneur group, and people barely even use AI as a chat app.
I built a beautiful CRM and I am struggling to get people to use it over Gmail "because it's another app".
AI still requires power users.
It will never not hurt me that the internet has almost entirely killed people's joy at dancing in public. It's one of the most fundamental expressions of being human and it's basically dying off because of weirdos.
To be honest considering how easy it is to "vibe code" these days there's still surprisingly less major incidents than I would have thought by now. Sure people point to API key leaks but those embarassing human flaws have happened with devs in the past.
There's a fair bit of truth to this. The vast majority of people in the top of their field are either people who ship/action or people who inspire others via action.
They're usually above average but rarely the top intellectual in their field.
GCP can be brutal in the bills it can rack up. Vibe code responsibly jesus. Keep very strict limits and absolutely do not push publicly if you don't fully understand what you're doing. Or at the very least haven't thought of the consequences in the worse case scenario.
FINALLY found how my key got leaked and got the $90,000 bill from google
Opus 5.5 said codex had PUBLISHED MY ****ING .ENV TO CLOUDFALRE PAGES ‼️
Meanwhile codex couldn't find anything, refused to explain itself and flagged my chat for cybersecurity risk lol
We live in this beautiful period where people attempt to flex their ability to detect AI. I fear it will only last for a few more years at most though.
And then what? Many will still consume but a decent minority will aggressively move to support in person art/events imo.
Use the safeties but also - research shows you can still gain a mega load of strength with lighter weights. Lift well below your max, there's rarely a reason for the average gym goer to test near or at max.
These scenarios come far far after AI has completed the more terrifying prospect AI brings which is the end of all socialization. Facebook et. al have basically publicly stated it.
AI's potential is not just a sexbot, but a weapon ready to rewire your brain's reward centre.
There are over 2,000 cover versions of "Louie Louie" and they're mostly forgotten to time. AI remains a tool, what survives will still be original ideas. It's highly unlikely the most popular creations with AI don't come with a heavy dose of originality.
We’re in a world where copying is trivial: but no one really cares much about copycats of the same stuff (games, videos, even social media posts)
Creating new things that stick is what remains hard. A novel but fun game with a captivating story (eg recently: Twisted Tower for me); an interesting video, a good book…
Yes AI is getting more impressive, but yet I’m just not that impressed with a lower quality copy of the original
People complain about Opus but I just developed a custom MacOS touchscreen driver for my LG swing in under 20 minutes.
Ok, here’s my corporate greed call-out of the day.
I was dispatched today for a no-cool call. The indoor unit was running, but the outdoor unit wasn’t.
The system was a 10-year-old Bryant Evolution high-end variable-capacity inverter system. After running the factory diagnostics, I found Code 77, indicating the inverter board was detecting excessive compressor startup current.
Following the manufacturer’s diagnostic procedure, I disconnected the compressor leads to determine whether the fault was in the compressor or the inverter board. The results confirmed the inverter board had failed. The system is only 8 months out of warranty.
At that point, I started preparing myself to tell the customer the repair would probably be around $1,500–$1,900. I figured the board would cost somewhere in the $800–$1,000 range. After all, it’s just a printed circuit board.
Before giving the estimate, I called Carrier Enterprise for pricing.
$8,900.
Not for the entire outdoor unit.
Not for a complete system.
Just the inverter board.
That’s not a typo. $8,900.
In my opinion, this is the definition of engineered obsolescence. There is no reasonable justification for a replacement circuit board on a 10-year-old residential HVAC system to cost nearly nine thousand dollars. At that price, you’re essentially forcing the homeowner to replace the entire system instead of repairing it.
This is exactly why I’ll never sell Carrier equipment. They make decent equipment, but pricing replacement parts like this turns a repairable system into a disposable one. Homeowners deserve better than that.
Carrier Carrier Enterprise or anyone that’s sells this shit, care to elaborate why this board is so expensive?
🎩 Patrick Henning
This is because power is the intoxication/hungry ghost that is more powerful than personal achievement.
AI is it's able to capture the minds of even brilliant people because it gives them a sense of power. People I know that would never be all that drawn by say short videos.
I’m convinced that a large % of programmers don’t actually like computers.
As a side effect, are also perfectly happy to throw away their reasoning to a model as soon as they can.
I don’t get it, at ALL. Don’t you *LIKE* understanding the magic of the machine?
You do realize hand-programming (I hate that I even have to specify hand now) is fun…right?
Although forgotten to time Josh Harris predicted this level of broadcast in the 90s/early 2000s. The documentary We Live in Public illustrates the extremes human behaviors can be driven to under constant surveillance and being on performance.
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I don't know what they're solving over at Spotify. I have my own self built music playlist generator vibe coded with essentia & other models and it wipes the floor of Spotify's recommendation system.
