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The pragmatic side of me wonders if there is any way to shape this inevitable future now so we might see a better outcome 20 years.

You can work on building LLMs that use less compute and run locally as well. There are some pretty good open models. They probably be made even more computationally efficient.

Unplug

In all seriousness. Windows is invaded by copilot, OpenAI introducing ads, Google providing Siri for Apple, it’s all just a collusion to keep you buying. Disconnect. From TV, Media, Ads, Social Networks, Predatory subscriptions, all of it. The only way to show these companies that we are not on board with this is to not participate.


Reddit generates its revenue with schadenfreude, YouTube and AAA games with GenAI (see: Ghibli in Call of Duty, and fast growing AI channels like Nick Invests or Bernard with “Why it Sucks to be X”).

On my shelf from the corner of my eye I see “Understanding the Linux Kernel”. It’s outdated, but it comes from a time of peer review and subject matter experts. I don’t need to double guess if the author is hallucinating or if they’re subconsciously trying to sell me something.

Maybe it’s time we return to books for entertainment and knowledge share.


Vinyl and Paperbacks…

2026 is the year of the audio cassette!

The opening paragraph I thought was the agent prompt haha

> The park rating is climbing. Your flagship coaster is printing money. Guests are happy, for now. But you know what's coming: the inevitable cascade of breakdowns, the trash piling up by the exits, the queue times spiraling out of control.


Is there a graph view that charts all GPU prices on one graph?

If not I think the landing page should be just that with checkbox filters for all GPUs on the left that you can easily toggle all on/off to show/hide their line on the graph.


I’ve got a stairwell outside my apt takes about 3 minutes to run up 10 flights. Try to do it once an hour never felt better.


I’m just looking to make pizza not smelt the ore for the oven I’m going to cook it in.


Why make pizza when you can order it? As far as I can tell, there's not much enjoyment of making being had.

Enjoying having is fine too, but let's at least be honest about it.

I enjoy looking at photos people took on hikes, but I don't call it hiking.


Is it hiking if I bought my boots on amazon?


Not if you sit at home wearing boots and looking at photos of mountains.

If you want to have boots, that's cool. But is replacing walking with ordering boots and photos making hiking fun again? Or were you only interested in the photos anyway?

What part of the process of hiking do you enjoy? And why is it so hard to hear what part of the process of programming people enjoy?


But you’d agree it’s still hiking even if I didn’t tan the leather for the boots myself.


Yes, if you go out and walk. The same way I would agree it was programming if you designed the algorithms yourself.


This is just obtuse. Some folks have fun building their own pizza oven, curing & slicing their own meat, and mixing their own dough. Some folks like to buy mostly pre-made stuff and just play with a few special ingredients. Some folks want to make 5 different pizzas with different flavors. Some folks just order a pizza.

Some folks walk out of their house and start hiking. Some folks drive somewhere and then start walking. Some folks take photos from the car. Some folks take a roadtrip.

All of these things ask for different effort & commitment with different experiences & results as the payoff. At least be honest about that.


It's interesting that nobody has actually answered what part of the process they enjoy.


Like, fine, here's a personal example: I wanted to build a system that posts web links I share to a bot account on the fediverse. That seemed like a fun result to me.

I wanted to self-host the links, so I installed Linkding. (I didn't write Linkding.) For the fediverse bot, I installed gotosocial as the service host (I didn't write gotosocial.)

From there, a cronjob running a small program using Linkding and gotosocial APIs could do the trick. Decided to do it in golang, because the standalone binaries are easy to deploy.

Writing that small program didn't seem like fun - I've already played with those APIs and golang. What I wanted, for my enjoyment, was the completed system.

So, I took 10 minutes to write out a quick spec for the program and what I wanted it to do. I loaded that up as context for Claude Code along with some pointers for building CLI apps in golang. I let it rip and, in about 20 minutes, Claude produced a functional tool. It also wrote a decent README based on my original prose.

I reviewed the code, did some testing, made some tweaks, called it done. My bookmarks are now regularly posted to a bot account on the fediverse. This is an enjoyable outcome for me - and I didn't have to type every line of code myself.

For bonus points, I also had Claude Code gin up some GitHub Actions workflows to lint, test, build, and release multi-platform binaries for this tool. I've done these things before, but they're tedious. More enjoyable to have the resulting automations than to build them. And now I have them: I can make tweaks to this tool and get builds just through the GitHub web UI.

I've since repeated this pattern with a handful of other small personal tools. In each case, I wanted the tool and the utility it offered. I didn't care about the process of writing the code. It's working pretty well for me.


It's different for everyone, so no one answer would likely satisfy you


That's why I used the word "you" and not "I".


Having a product that works is what these people enjoy


Should probably email this to the CEO of SO


Curious if you could snap your finger and implement your app in a few other frameworks for comparison which ones you are curious to evaluate next.


What frameworks do you suggest? I've covered in the blog post apps written in Fultter, web (React), Swift, etc. It's a ton of work building something like that from scratch, so I don't really see myself doing that.


I'd be really interested in your thoughts on Godot with C++ support. Like, are there immediate showstoppers that pop into your mind?


Was just thinking to myself how Player Piano has never been more appropriate than the AI age we’re in such a hurry to usher in.


Agree. It's just not a very good Vonnegut novel though. You can see him without (yet) a voice in the novel.

If "Breakfast of Champions" is a little too nutty though, I think I might like his "Mother Night" best. (But maybe we like nutty Kurt?)


I think "Hocus Pocus" is his best, followed by "Cat's Cradle". But how lucky are we to have so many good ones to pick from?


>Hocus Pocus

I read this during the same time I was copyediting a good friend's Vietnam memoir. As a staff sargeant [E6], my buddy saw/did some things — including lobbing a girl's head off as she stepped in front of his rocket trajectory — but we both crossed eyes when I explained what the calculation on the last page of HP resulted in: survivor's remorse of rape & pillaging.

How many little half-Sargeants must being running around 'Nam...


Thanks. Hocus Pocus slipped past me somehow. Now I have something to look forward to reading. (I liked Cat's Cradle too but it is also on the loopier end of Vonnegut's writing spectrum—but we need some more of that.)


Mother Night is the book that has become more relevant every year since it was published, in 1962.

Every time someone is an "Ironic Nazi" online I think of that book, and how 4chan evolved into the modern political juggernaut it is today.


Mother night was my favorite Vonnegut book.


I happened to reread it recently and was absolutely blown away by how relevant it is today, and how it is almost certainly more relevant today than when it was written.


I think Vonnegut really had his pulse on the human condition. Writers such Aldous Huxley could capture parts of it but Vonnegut seemed to capture it in just about every book.


Just coincidentally, I read Player Piano during my introductions to GPT-2 (summer 2022).

One of my brothers asked (out of legitimate concern) if I needed to visit a mental institution... because there just is no way you are talking with machines about books — about such fantasies.

Granted, my life has been a series of abuses; but Vonnegut helped me realize the impossible isn't so.

And now it's so.

>...so it goes.


Bluebeard is a good one too; it ruminates on the nature of art and how/why meaning is assigned to it.


Loved Bluebeard as well. A mature Vonnegut who knew how to use motifs from his earlier work. And for an old guy, he kept his writing fresh and energetic. The miniature story of the dog without a tail always comes back to me.


Thank you for your comment. I like Vonnegut (my favorite is Hocus Pocus) but hadn't read Bluebeard. I only started it and I'm already enjoying it significantly.


Maybe the reason westworld made it such a prominent theme in the show. All of season 3 is essentially that story.

But what vonnegut missed or questioned is what is we aren’t much more either. (Core thesis of the show is that skinner proved we are mostly the same as a player piano anyways)


No love for "Sirens Of Titan"?


>Just two rules they live by:

>1) I am here

>2) So glad you are

The existance of the harminoniums. That most beautiful of passages, simplicity and grace...


My programming teacher in 9th grade spent half the class time on Pascal and programming, and half like a literature or social studies class, including reading and discussing "Player Piano".

Today, the people who most should read it and other things are not the people in our field. Just like the people who most should've been reading about the effects and dangers of Wall Street scamming, were not the coked-up bros doing the scamming.


Curious if you've given any thought to whether or not you want to create clones of the usual Wii sports games or not or leave those squarely in Nintendo's court and find fun elsewhere?


If you mean like utilizing gyroscope and other sensor of the phone to control the game characters (like in Wii tennis, bowling and so on), I've thought about it but I don't think it's intuitive enough to use your phone like that and I think it would make the learning curve a bit too steep. Nintendo is great at what they do and it has taken a lot from them to make Wii-games work, I don't think it would be too useful to try to copy them :)


Actually no when I asked I hadn't even made that obvious connection. I think main reason to avoid that is Wii motes had wrist slings, no doubt if you implemented phone gyroscopes it'd end with a social media post of someones damaged phone and tv.

Reflecting on my time playing Wii the sports games were ok but nothing screams 'gotta have this' to me.

If I could give one unsolicited piece of inspiration it'd be to watch this episode of Community: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOueERJzjrU

There is definitely an awesome couch multiplayer game in there somewhere


Haha that's also very true. The games were ok and fun but really I think what made Nintendo games special was the 'magic' of it all. In a similar sense as their Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit is not the best game but damn do I appreciate the engineering and 'magic' that the game offers, it's just so cool.

Thanks for the link, need to start ideating new games ;)


Gauntlet is definitely a genre ripe for this too. Good luck!


Appreciate it, thanks!




It’s unclear to me wether that would give some access to a token quota or if it would just be like any other « Sign in with … ». In all cases I am currently developing an app that would greatly benefit from letting my users connect to their ChatGPT account and use some token quota.


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