corytheboyd

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Everything's made up and the points don't matter.

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Comment · 23 days ago
Competitors use it as their serverless JS runtime, likely as simple as that.
Comment · 1 month ago
> [...] there was some motion thing on the QR code

Yep, same happened to me with some baseball game tickets. So incredibly dumb.

Even worse, we split into two groups and I had to ask the other group to download the app... create an account... and finally be able to "transfer" the tickets to them. It took like ten minutes, and thank god we weren't at the park yet trying to do all that. Ugh.

Comment · 1 month ago
> There are many events you can't get into now without a smartphone.

Yeah, it's pretty bad.

At least Apple's Wallet app works offline. There is nothing worse than having to use a dogshit proprietary app, waiting for it to handshake with four thousand data collection services before you can reach your My Tickets page, in a location where cell service is shit because thousands of other people are trying to do the same thing.

Comment · 1 month ago
On one hand, I am incredibly tired of seeing the absolute train wreck of waste that is suave founders taking millions and blowing it on hundreds of personnel who do practically nothing— especially having seen what a single person can do with these tools.

On the other hand, death of a livelihood in a social structure that doesn’t care about you.

We’ve always had pump-and-dump trash. The terrible stuff loses and the good stuff wins. I don’t see why that would change.

The companies that ditch the management structures of yore and successfully build better software faster with the new tools will come out on top. I don’t think these companies will replace ALL saas subscriptions with in-house solutions, because one huge benefit of paying someone else to hold that bag is liability and regulatory overhead.

Comment · 1 month ago
> Under the law, claims in advertisements must be truthful, cannot be deceptive or unfair, and must be evidence-based.

> Companies must support their advertising claims with solid proof. This is especially true for businesses that market food

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/advertising-marketing

Isn't this pretty unambiguous?

Sure, yeah, I understand what foot photography is. McDonalds etc. are at least riding the line instead of ignoring it. Using real food to carefully craft a scene, no matter how "done up" it is, is still representative of what's in the product.

Generative AI art is going to fabricate things. Especially when used by smaller shops who won't fact check it. I go to restaurant, look at picture of food, and expect to receive that. Period.

Comment · 1 month ago
For your basic words-and-dates-with-shapes-and-shit posters, the AI ones are annoying, but I’m not gonna die on a hill over it. The hill I _will_ die on is restaurants using AI generated images of food. No. That needs to be illegal. I thought it _was_ illegal.
Comment · 2 months ago
I’m sure it depends on the type of work, but for mine, Codex is much more helpful. Honestly, it mostly comes down to it being significantly faster, probably because as many have said, it seems tuned to not spit out word vomit, both in its chat interactions, and its code (Claude is obsessed with massive comment blocks that are basically guaranteed to become dead context noise if you ever use it to iterate on code).

I mostly do very obsessive, tightly scoped, carefully thought out small changes on a fairly boring stack, one interaction at a time, verifying functionality and code. I know what I am doing, but I also know what I don’t like doing (the same exact set of things I’ve already done a dozen times in my career)

Comment · 2 months ago
If every commit has full ai conversation baggage, and you feed that history back to an ai… aren’t you wildly inflating context with stuff that may or may not matter? How does this even work with thousands of “commits?”

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