mickelsen

Haven't tried it yet, but I like that you shared your process in such an honest way, and kept it no frills, as in no LLM wall-of-text readme in the repo. Wish we could see that more often these days.

I love trying out new software, but with Github getting blasted all the time, supply chain compromise, and now in the vibe coding era with people not even checking, we have to be careful. It sucks that this is the status quo now.

Yup. Happened to me months ago, when the credit card failed to renew and it switched back to free, the allow training setting also got activated. Cheeky bastards. I guess they just vacuumed all my past convos, and you don't have anyone to complain to!

Since I still need to use that account with Plus, I added a new card, flipped the switch back to no training, and submitted that thing on the privacy page which is a bit more formal. Probably should have signed up for a business account.

It used to feel like that for me even before AI. The trick I use is when glancing through the homepage, I just open all the tabs that interest me and move them to OneTab. Eventually I sift through the threads on a lazy weekend. Many weren't that interesting, so they end up getting closed on the spot, same for those that didn't gain traction. Others are keepers, those get bookmarked.

But be careful, compulsively bookmarking isn't a good idea either. I see my AI bookmarks from 2023, most are irrelevant now. Same for a ton of new releases at that time, whatever homelab config, rumors around silicon architecture, geopolitical events, retrocomputing, etc.

So what actually helped me was realizing that after any ramp up period there's stabilization: you let the world figure out what works, then eventually you will see what sticks mentioned everywhere when going back to that topic.

There are also some evergreen discussions here. Those get more than a thread a year, like the tinnitus stuff, and they tend to stay up for a good part of the week.

They could ask AI to refactor and debloat, since they can't be bothered with it because the incentives don't seem to align.

Last decade has been the worst, not even worth it for the eye candy like before.

Well, software already had a ~25% repricing last February, and plenty of SaaS names were down 30–50%. Now for that to hit the whole stock market at once (not just the Nasdaq), I guess you'd need some sort of macro / liquidity event or black swan. High valuations alone just won't do it.

Hope sanity prevails and printers stay free, don't give Europe ideas.

Nice, Noisetable is so relaxing. Reminds me a bit of those generative music apps from Brian Eno.

x86 only tho

When you have a flow well defined, like transactions going on, it simply doesn't scale. But AI can then be used for analysis, alerts and investigating failures of such processes very nicely. Agents can also be used to prepare a transaction package that needs more human input, like a customer service case, but again with clearly defined outcomes. At least that's what I've seen in my limited experience consulting for a local online retailer.

I'd be a bit more humble rather than terrified, because I enjoy some AI slop too, especially funny animals that remind me of my old pets' antics. There are levels of slop. But tasteless stuff with crap graphics plastered all over, loud edits or badly calibrated tts voices were already all over reels/tiktok long before AI, and people still liked that.

The unsettling thing on social media is the mind hijacking with the recommendation algo and scrolling motion that resembles a slot machine, more than the content itself.