TheKnack

This is the way. I left corporate IT and started solving interesting problems myself. I started doing this about 10 years ago but it was slow going since I had to do engineering, sales, support, etc all myself. AI has allowed me to get all this done the way I first imagined, and I feel that I’m only scratching the surface.

AI has allowed me to move more of my time from coding to solving problems and getting results. For my the point of coding isn’t the journey, it’s the destination, and AI helps me get to the destination faster. Maybe it’s because I own my own (2 person) company and the output is directly connected to me getting paid by clients.

I've been doing this for 20+ years, not with AI but just with code and taking time to understand the important parts of the processes. I still see many companies and especially educational institutions spending way too much manpower on payroll and accounts payable in particular. This is often because of unnecessary bespoke processes that people in the organization believe are necessary and are afraid to change.

My Mac started telling me that I need to update Apple ID settings about 30 minutes ago, but when I click "Continue", System Settings freezes and can't be closed. I think it's because gsa.apple.com isn't responding. When I ping that address, it resolves to Akamai, which makes me wonder if this is an Apple outage or Akamai outage. Neither company's status dashboard reports any issues right now.

    PING gsa.idms-apple.com.akadns.net (17.32.194.34): 56 data bytes
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 4
    Request timeout for icmp_seq 5

What I don't understand about both this and Twitter's dislike of third party apps is why they don't just require third party apps display the same ads as their own app, and maybe support whatever paid features they have. It seems like that would be a win-win for both them and the app developers.

More people use Reddit because of Apollo because the experience is so much better than their own app. They should take advantage of that by coming up with a mutually beneficial solution instead of killing it. They would make a lot more revenue by requiring that Apollo display ads than killing it and losing some percentage of users or traffic in the process. Are they that confident that all of the Apollo users are just going to switch to their own app on July 1st? (they won't)

I understand why the status-quo isn't sustainable. Reddit has to figure out how to be profitable eventually, but this seems like a tone deaf way to try to get there which probably won't have the intended result.