miles_matthias

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Comment · 3 months ago

it's not that it's completely unbelievable, but I could see people having doubts considering:

1. AI exists and is widely used 2. A person only has so much bandwidth. If they put out 10 docs in a day, did they really hand write them all?

Comment · 3 months ago

I love this problem and think it's super important. I've similarly noticed myself using a whiteboard to think critically for a while and then take a picture of the whiteboard as proof of deep thought, even if the next step is AI supplemented (a doc, a video, etc).

I've also started noticing people annotating a whole doc "written by humans" to try to convey effort and care. That's fine for some things but do that too often and a reader will be left with two thoughts:

1. Did they actually write this by hand? No way 2. Should they have written some of this with AI? Seems like a waste of time formatting some of this when they could've been spending their time thinking critically

Comment · 1 year ago

I think what's interesting here is that it's a super cheap version of what many busy people already do -- hire a person to help do this. Why? Because the interface is easier and often less disruptive to our life. Instead of hopping from website to website, I'm just responding to a targeted imessage question from my human assistant "I think you should go with this <sitter,restaurant>, that work?" The next time I need to plan a date night, my assistant already knows what I like.

Replying "yes, book it" is way easier than clicking through a ton of UIs on disparate websites.

My opinion is that agents looking to "one-shot" tasks is the wrong UX. It's the async, single simple interface that is way easier to integrate into your life that's attractive IMO.

Comment · 1 year ago

Well then there's the overall experience using the roads, regardless of roughness. For example, Texas' under interstate turnarounds are super weird and make running a local errand feel like a cross country trip as an example. Areas without zoning laws between commercial / residential feel more stressful to me as a driver personally too.

Comment · 3 years ago

Appreciate how well-written and approachable this post was!

Comment · 6 years ago

Command line would be the only necessity. You can write a script that could download docker & run it. That's what I meant by Makefile too.

Comment · 6 years ago

I agree, I'd love to see this as a docker container or Makefile where dependencies are automatically pulled in if not present on the host machine.

Comment · 6 years ago

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Comment · 6 years ago

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Comment · 6 years ago

I haven't reached my goals, so take my advice with a grain of salt.

But I'm focusing on my environment and the habits. Doing the daily habit as best I can.

Comment · 7 years ago

Just want to compliment how well written this article is. A lot of technical articles lack the context or basic background (“why”) and this article does a great job.

Comment · 7 years ago

This is the same for the train and shipping industries. I’ve always thought those vehicles had ample opportunities to capture solar rays and wind since they’re out in the open all the time, but we simply don’t have batteries and engines powerful enough yet.

Comment · 7 years ago

Point taken -- AWS is better at ops than the developers who create open source tools.

Then why not pay a fraction of the money you're earning on offering these tools back to the open source community? Using something like GitHub's new funding tools?

Comment · 7 years ago

It’s very interesting to me that he didn’t mention the B Corp organization, who attempts to do exactly that. Is there a reason for this? Maybe he thinks the requirements/audits are too burdensome?

Comment · 7 years ago

They're really excited about 1.0 for this reason, they're tired of breaking other people's builds too. The goal is to limit that with the 1.0 release, so expect this to get a lot better.