nakedgremlin

Amazing recommendation. I ended up purchasing some of their recent books.

I thought this was a great write up on the current state for artists and AI engines. I'm honestly surprised by this nugget:

> A free Tess subscription to use their own model for brainstorming and scaling repetitive work (roughly 1 in 4 artists took advantage of this)

So based on the math I'm seeing... the 21 artists in the system, only 5 ("1 in 4") optioned to use the tool for their own productivity? That seems really low and makes me wonder what the user experience for creation feels like. I would assume if you decided to commit to this endeavor, you would want to see what derivative results will look like.

Yeah, my experience on testing GitLab CI/CD script logic is to use a sacrificial branch and grind through test commits until it works, then Squash commits when merging back into main branch.

It's so sad that we can't just run local validations on the CI/CD script through a local emulator. If they had a local emulator approach similar to what is provided by Firebase for their cloud products, that would be amazing.

Yeah, this one caught me off guard. We just purchased a MacBook Air in the last month and if we bought the same one now, we would save $200. Apple support would not price match/correct that, so we will be returning it and purchasing anew.

"The deal is worth $7.2 million..."

I'd love to know more on the business-front for deals like this. Is that a yearly cost? What's the typical expectation for support for something like this?

This definitely isn't my realm of experience at all, so I don't even know if this is a big deal or not. The fact they noted the "bragging rights" makes this feel like a low cost.

Thank you for providing pre-set examples on your site. That's one of the major barriers on these types of tools to "test" especially when you're not sure where/how/if the images are public.

Not sure how I feel about this. Figma is great and all their feature releases have been impressive, but I feel it was due to competition and worry about similar products coming in from big corporations (like Adobe XD). I feel this competition really push Figma hard.

Now being part of the same owner, just makes it feel like any aggressive progress will just stall out.

Oh it feels great to learn I'm not alone in this problem. I completely agree with everything noted here.

The current interface provided for removing the artifacts on GitLab just does not work. There is no feedback; no confirmation. We just uncheck a box and just cross our fingers since there is no other step noted.

Even with the new guidance provided, it's still additional jumps through other codebases just to see if it works. I'm now worried that if I go through this new process, I'll end up right back at the same issue.

Gah. The "JSML" name out-loud just sounds so wrong.

Would you be willing to share how that compares to your iOS side? I see you have Apple Watch support which I assume is easier to monetize for your space.

I'm excited overall about these 'leaks' and details surfacing from Apple and Meta. I'm optimistic the AR side will win (versus VR only), but overall, by being shepherded by these big orgs, I expect hardware costs to reduce dramatically for end users. Lower costs will pull in more users and allow us to really design experiences for a wider AR audience.

Sorry for the tangent, but can you provide more info on your service? Without signing up from an account on your site, I'm unsure on how the interface here compares to GitLab runner registration (which I always felt was a bit convoluted due to how GitLab structures their user and organization accounts) and how the hardware compares to what GitLab offers.