halfcat

There are many alternatives.

We can hope

Let’s replace a few categories of your argument and see how your logic holds up.

”This is not the claim. The claim is that, empirically, many (or enough) of the men who end up in construction jobs are underage, trafficked, or psychologically coerced (due to poverty, drug addiction, abuse, etc) such that the choice is not really the free choice of willing participant.

I am all for individual freedoms, but I've read enough about this issue, and seen enough documentaries, that I think the claim is very well-founded. Of course, some construction workers are just willing adults doing something they want to do, but there are many who are not.

You could replace construction with mining or fishing or factory work. It’s pretty clear to me that outlawing fishing jobs isn’t going to solve the problem of forced labor.

> Haven't typed a line of code or read any code for over 6 months now

> I ask questions to confirm things

Oh my.

As someone who reads the code, I can tell you, asking questions to confirm things is inadequate. The models lie to me, daily.

Every day I have two experiences:

1. I’m blown away by what it can do

2. I say, ”wait, you said this, but the code shows that, so you were just going to leave that endpoint without requiring any authentication??” and I get the “you’re absolutely right, that was my mistake, and you’re right to call it out” song and dance. Daily.

It also adds all kinds of bloat to code, tests, and “documentation”. I’d say I spend ~30% of my dev time picking lines of code or documentation and asking, “why does this exist?” and “what would break if we deleted this line?” and then arguing with it and removing things.

I got it working on my laptop. It has an Intel integrated iGPU and an NVIDIA discrete dGPU. I was able to pass through the NVIDIA GPU and use it for CUDA/etc.

But the NVIDIA dGPU is muxless, so apparently all of the display outputs (laptop screen, HDMI outputs) are effectively hard wired to the iGPU. dGPU can render in a VM, it just has no where it can send it without trying to use Looking Glass or similar approach.

> just bare-naked node/html/css/js

Why include node here?

> haven’t memorized every possible TLA

TLA or TLA+?

No, only virtual GarageBand

> extra effort to build it

Also extra effort to use it. This is why we have the “how do I exit vim?” meme.

A good user interface needs escape hatches so users can keep their head above water while they learn to swim.

Most of what people want when they say keyboard-driven is closer to a cockpit (requires expert knowledge) than a general purpose UI.

> We’ll model it in Ballet on your real systems in a 30-minute working session

You drastically underestimate how bad most systems are. All of the vendors in your examples have good APIs. Those vendors already did the hard part.

All of the systems we need solutions for are moving targets that are breaking constantly. You can’t model those in 30 minutes because the ways in which they break don’t show up until months later.

> I'm very intrigued by AI note takers, but I'm absolutely unwilling to expose me or my clients to this exact problem

Unfortunately it’s mostly not up to you. It’s a weakest-link problem. It doesn’t matter if you don’t use a note taker AI, if even one person on the call uses one. Their tool doesn’t notify you and usually the person doesn’t either.

It also has the reverse impact to the person using the note taker, where people say less around them. Same as if I'm talking to someone with Meta glasses.

I wonder if the people who use these tools know the people they meet with speak less during their meetings, and then all of the participants have a post-meeting call without them to say what they really thought.