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I think if they did support Apple Pencil they’d have used that as a selling point.

As someone who does coding and art, I’m disappointed that there’s no Apple Pencil support. Makes touch feel more like a gimmick.

Nobody is saying advertisement doesn’t work.

There are reasonable, practical limits to the agent power available to a given person.

If I'm sawing wood I could compare a knife to a handsaw, to an electric saw, to a table saw, to a team of woodworkers, to a factory, etc.

It would be totally reasonable to compare the amount of wood I'm able to saw by hand vs electric or any of the other methods.

You could give the task to a million people but you could also give the task to a million people who each have their own swarm of agents.

I think it makes sense to focus on what one individual can do, and amount of time to do it.

The point of technology is to make people’s lives better.

Out of curiosity, when you take a bite of a burger do you call it a product?

When you watch a movie do you call it content?

I’m glad you mentioned flow state because that’s exactly the high I’m trying to chase with AI and why I like it despite programming since elementary school as well.

I realized I most enjoy higher level problem solving but don’t really enjoy implementation. Like I enjoy algorithms, data structures, memory allocation strategies, SIMD optimization, etc. But writing the code, and debugging it is tedious and takes me out of flow.

And if I’m really interested in the project itself then the algorithms take a back seat and I enjoy the even higher level problem solving of building a cool project.

I don’t think it makes you lesser to enjoy these things more than literally banging out code, and hunting down bugs. Perhaps I’ve written enough code that I don’t find the same joy in that. Who knows.

In these scenarios you’re morally obligated to save the most people. I don’t see why this is complicated at all.

Maybe other people put a lot of emotional weight on the choice itself but as long as I tried to save the most people I’d sleep soundly at night.

Minus the horror of watching people get run over by a trolley of course.

Are these things actually complicated, or is it the case that simplicity feels bad somehow?

The trolley problem is just messy emotionally, not actually complicated. You only have two choices, you pick the one that saves the most lives and that’s the best you can do.

Real housing prices are the most expensive they've been in recent history, but sure it's almost entirely doomscrolling.

Yes they are. People are blaming it almost entirely on scrolling social media.

I’m not arguing that today is the worst time to ever exist in the history of humanity.

I’m arguing there are legitimate reasons why people are exhausted and disillusioned with the current state of the world.

Life has become increasingly expensive. Safety nets that used to be there, aren’t anymore. We’re surrounded by enshittification. Social divides, and antagonism between social groups are high.

Your contempt for humanity is blinding you to real issues people face every day. Yes, some things have gotten better over the years, but some things have gotten a lot worse.

I don’t think it’s as simple as that. It seems like people are increasingly exhausted and disillusioned with life.

What you seem to be implying is people are lazy and choosing TikTok over real relationships. But I also think people choose TikTok because it’s low effort and they don’t have much gas left in the tank.

I was recently working on audio code, and I needed a function that produced a fast approximation of a sine wave. I asked chatgpt about common techniques, did some experiments to figure out the right performance/accuracy tradeoff, and finally asked chatgpt to help me optimize the function to use SIMD instructions.

If this code made it into a game, at what point did I do something wrong?