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My main trick is to use fish and enable vi key bindings. Especially on mac where there is no Home And End functionality.

"... I don't enjoy reviewing AI-generated PRs. Poring over hundreds of lines of overly-defensive, badly-commented, subtly incorrect code is not fun. I might grudgingly do it for an employer—while making sure said employer becomes an ex-employer as soon as possible..."

I don't know about where you work, but in my neck of the woods if you want to be employed you will be reviewing AI PRs, there is no escaping that.

I kept hearing about meditation. And at one point I tried it. With one app that was given to me for free through my employer's benefits.

It had a counter of your current uninterrupted streak. (Meditating every day) I kept at it. First for 5 minutes a day. Soon for 10m a day. Then 20m

Then twice a day at 20m.

Then semi-guided, and in the end unguided (only a beep at the end).

I never felt anything from it. Truly. Nada. Not better, or worse or calmer or more present or really really nothing.

Yes while meditating I would catch my mind drift, I would come back to the breathing and continue the count.

After this has been on for over 6 months and my counter of my streak was nearing 200. I decided to skip a day, only to see if I would get back to it if my counter was back at 0.

Result?

I never meditated again. Could it be that did it wrong? Possibly.

Could it be that it just doesn't work on me? Possibly and this is the one explanation I'm going with

The whole thing is just...nothing

Yeah, perhaps its due to noone wants LLMs trained on their data for free. I don't know, at least for reddit there are still ways to get the data for free.

Scraping. I applied for the token but never heard back. Reddit doesn't want new devs working on it.

Yeah, but he says customers 4-10, not the first and the second the third, he says use personal network for that, right?

I guess I am very atypical. My first customer came from Reddit outreach, and also my second, and third and so on. None came from personal network (never really even tried that, maybe i should)

I know its going to stop being so effective at at some point, but so far so good. Different strokes for different folks, I guess.

Yeah I don't really use desktop systems any more. I just use a window manager and a few other things, and I'm happy with it

So model drift is not really a thing?

Thanks

I heard from Ed Zitron that you can't really turn off "training" on these models even after they have been released because they need continuous re-training to keep up with the changes in the world and the language etc. Is this correct? if it is, can we even say that research can be turned off entirely?

FWIW I now use i3wm and some custom log off screen and rofi and ST and I am happy with it.