The most helpful any everyday technology has ever been is GMail's "You wrote 'Attached is' but no files are attached." reminder and I don't need any tech to be more intelligent than that.
shipping is a discipline, not a function
if there’s one thing clients do, it’s constantly change their mind and sabotage their own projects no matter how much you, the consultant, do your best to shepherd them to better decisions
how’s an llm going to fix that
The legitimately innovative thing about AI is that it is a completely bottomless pit. It's swallowed up:
- all energy sources
- all our data
- all investment dollars
- all new jobs
- all capex
- all attention
- and now, all hardware components
with absolutely no end in sight. Nothing will satisfy.
Micro "continvoucly morged" soft
If one person screw up can make the mistake surface publicly (no other person to cross check, review), thats a systemic problem
There's a 24 hour Subway with drive-thru located below
I don't want to live in a world where we forget how to be kind to each other and that seems to be the goal of those who want to control us.
not to point at anyone in particular, but I have been in and on many different internet communities of various shapes/sizes/technologies and one mistake I consistently see made is assuming the technical part of running a community is the hard part.
it's not.
it's the social part.
it's moderation.
Everyone expects tech support to be a nightmare.
What if you turned it into a pleasant surprise?
That's an easy way to thrill customers and stand out. For companies of any size.
https://longform.asmartbear.com/tech-support-is-sales/
Condolences 🙏
"I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more," said Berend Smit, a professor of chemical engineering at EPFL, describing some of Meta's results as "nonsense". "You get the impression that the Big Tech mentality is do first, think later.
I want “compute less, think more” on a T-shirt.
archive.is/2025.07.03-0... via @ketanjoshi.co
in the future one of the perks of some jobs will be that you're not compelled to use AI, and not challenged to justify not using it at every step.
this technology that i cant even get my own employees to use without literally threatening them is definitely going to be profitable one day
Darwinism in real life
Hope you recover soon Kai!
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you want a reputation of "that helpful person who also does x" not "that person trying to sell x"
and not just normal amounts of money. radio shack made money. software tools easily make money. we could all have beautiful careers making things that are useful and valuable and make money from doing it.
these fuckers just have to make ALL the money, and kill anything that doesn't
There was always something weird about the build in public movement that I couldn’t quite put my finger on. But this framing identifies it for me because those who helped rather than build always resonated more with me (in a positive way)
Guy in corner meme, saying "They don't even know I exist" while perfect customers dance the night away
the life of an indie developer
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Am I the only one who feels less inspired by tech these days? AI but also…everything? Is this everyone or a getting older thing or a me thing?
I’m honestly curious.
