amoorthy

A little off-topic but I have been thinking about how writing changes in the age of AI.

I wonder if similar to how many engineers now write 90% or maybe 99% of code with AI and primarily weigh in on the plan/design, will writers too primarily weigh in only on the content brief/plan and then the actual post is seldom read in full (once you have faith that the AI is not making up citations). Because the audience of most writing is now bots prose and style are no longer relevant.

:) Agreed, I am highly disturbed by the number of people I see driving while looking at their phone.

Solid advice. On the point about surgery, seems obvious but surgeons are inclined to operate. They aren't inclined to tell you the surgery is unnecessary. They always say it's routine and they've done it many times before. All true but surgery can be very tough on your body as I saw with my late father. Complications happen more than anyone will admit.

The older the get the more I appreciate speed limits as they are. Driving fast barely changes your arrival time on most trips and increases risk to you and others dramatically. I'm still guilty of speeding sometimes but on the whole I find driving the speed limits, or thereabouts, more relaxing and enjoyable (I do not hang out in the fast lane).

Yes I saw 3Blue1Brown say the same thing in his tutorial on how neural nets worked where he built a simple model to recognize a particular letter. Good reminder.

Makes sense what you say. Sounds like you've thought a lot about this. If you write a post somewhere I bet others on HN and beyond would fancy a discussion as it's very much a topical issue now.

That's a very good point. I wonder if AI within a product sometimes is substantially better than AI outside the product for a particular task. Because AI in the product is configured thoughtfully to do a great job at that task. So if quality is a requirement then AI in the product may still have merit?

This is the crux of the issue. I think for infrequent use cases (question/answer) an MCP with tool-calls to some product makes sense.

But for frequent use cases - something you do daily or weekly perhaps - then a native interface still has merit. i.e. I don't think AI subsumes the product in this case.

Our local wine shop in Burlingame, CA has a very knowledgeable 65 yr old proprietor (30 yrs running this store) who told me that Napa wines are definitely overpriced by 3x.

Because I'm not as particular about region he regularly introduces me to wines from other parts of the world that taste great at a much lower cost.

I made this change. Thank you very much!

Thank you so much! I rebuilt the index and it's much better. And good to know about command-2 option; that's helpful. Thank you again!

I struggle daily with Finder's search. It cannot find files in my Downloads folder even if I type the exact name. Do I need to rebuild some index or some other setting?