MisterKent

Link to the podcast?

I had the same thought the other day, once you feel a certain way, identifying it in others is much easier. Definitely true for depression and suicide, but I guess I've also seen it be true for gay people as well (who always seem to know within seconds who is and isn't gay).

Is the point to just capture sun energy off planet and solve global warming? /conspiracy

Yeah, I have no interest in becoming a pet. Especially not as a species.

I'm reasonably opposed to LLMs, mostly from a human perspective. They reduce us to our output without factoring in any of the actual thoughts and experiences that go into that work, it's literally not in their training data.

It's unfortunate that we live in a world that has decided to push in this direction.

I have started a work project that is 100% vibe engineered, as an experiment to see where it would land. While it seems to be working, I can see that it has made so many mistakes along the way that it is still unclear if we can dig ourselves to production ready.

I was at an art museum recently, and was looking at a marble statue. And I thought to myself: this artist probably spent more time sculpting the big toe than anyone has spent appreciating the entire statue.

That speed is what we used to have in software engineering. So much careful craftsmanship, no line just yeeted out. And now we're just heading into a direction with no clear end, just prayers that bigger and better models will lift us forward.

What's the point of being human if we're so gung ho to remove that which separates us from other animals (our intellect)?

I hate this argument.

Would you rather have 1M dollars in cash or 10B in stock that you can't sell?

The convenience factor is nice because most people (like me) don't bother to actually charge the EV every night.

Just laziness / not necessary for my commute. However, my understanding is that keeping the battery around 80% is better for lifespan. So, the convenience will actually result in longer lasting batteries?

Flip the problem? The base station is the car, and the cord is on the roomba

Famously, high schoolers and middle schoolers never drink or vape.

The problem is that if defeating it is trivial, then it _authenticates_ fake images.

The problem is that it makes it easier to fool people and provide "cryptographic" evidence of validity, backed by big tech.

It's purpose is to stop bad actors from passing of fake as real just as much as it is to prevent real images being dismissed as fake.

There's less gray area with driving wss the point. Legal or illegal, efficient or inefficient. And whatever gray area remains is generally "good enough" compared to human drivers on the road.

Good. The more I use AI the more I feel like it will drag humanity into a local maxima that we'll never be able to escape from.

Based on the comments here and the content of the post... I sort of agree. But maybe less so directly with their gatekeeping. But maybe we should formalize closer to "real professions".

And if we think college degrees don't matter, there's plenty of professions that require time on the job, rotations, flying low/no passenger planes, and so on.

We require people get a license to own a firearm (or ostensibly should...). And AI can be an extremely powerful weapon.

I see a gatekeeping argument. I don't agree with their requirements. I'd rather see that regulation than banning models.

It also has the side effect of preventing AI from taking jobs as aggressively, keeping it at bay in schools, and getting people to maybe respect(?) / acknowledge the dangers involved here.

Hey Ryan, just want to congratulate you on this. I've _loved_ solid since well before it's v1 release, and use it in all my side projects.

If anyone hasn't tried it I highly recommend it. Simply put: Solid makes the "dumb and naive code" the optimal code. It takes all the pain of React away.

I agree with your sentiment that we've pushed web frontend performance as far as we should bother. I think optimizing calls is the next frontier. On that end, I like the approach for async, but maybe I have a suggestion?

Solid needs a tightly coupled request library that emits signals/resources directly. That "server-side" data binding layer would be the missing glue. I think server actions sort of get at that, but I've never really been satisfied with them. Just my 2c.

Step one of all my projects is always wrap a bunch of fetch calls into whichever correct incantation of solid primitives. Plus, the solid compiler should be able to early load those requests via static analysis and improve real life FCP / LCP times without the developer needing to do gymnastics.

"Everyone's doing it" presented with no evidence is just you trying to make yourself feel better for: - using from - driving a Tesla - voting for Trump

It's a really, really easy line to draw in the sand: don't support openly corrupt individuals.

It's absolutely true there's money in politics. To call all money in politics equally corrupt because Bernie got a dollar to have dinner with someone vs Elon effectively directly buying votes....

A complete lack of nuance here. And I wouldn't be surprised if corporations / super rich WANT you to think like that. The more defeatist the mentality becomes the more we just accept whatever they do next.