Notices by Danilo Campos 🇵🇷 (danilo@hachyderm.io), page 4

incredible detail here from @tiffani

@mattly this is truly what is best in life

Make the shit illegal.

Just make the shit illegal.

We already built out a goon squad for this, it's called the banking system.

You can just make the shit illegal.

But now it's IN the markets, so it's not going to happen.
https://historians.social/@tkinias/112283441665687815

@mattly they whiffed it by not making it into a PLATFORM

the community should be able to template the fuck out of it but they can’t, except through the shitty expedient of making custom PDFs

also the stylus is fragile as hell and that's pathetic

ReMarkable has been disappointing loads of ways but my favorite way they bum me out is by blocking my ability to use the device with constant interstitials about their release notes

I do not give a fuck, let me write

@mattly you are giving me a LOT to think about here…

also Vinod Khosla:

“I should get exclusive control of California’s shorelines so I never have to experience the disgusting poor enjoying the simple pleasures of a beach day”
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/112245555126869055

The elites want TikTok banned because it’s far too successful at anti capitalist peer learning, full stop

Like it’s actually WILDLY effective

TikTok’s algorithm uses your behavior as signal. Not what you SAY you want, but where you actually put your time

A lot of people want to understand why life is so hard now. They want to dissect inequality and labor precarity.

The algorithm matches them up efficiently, in a feedback loop that’s constantly educating

A lot of the anti LLM-in-your
-programming-workflow stuff stinks of gatekeeping, full-stop, and I’m tired of not saying it

It frequently boils down to “the only valid use of code is by people who understand all contours and consequences of what they are writing”

which, I mean

lmao if you think that’s how it has EVER worked, AI or not

@Elucidating @mattly gotta get you outta that mud! you deserve it too

@mattly oh I'm so happy for you, homie, it's quite a relief when the gears finally mesh together after so long stuck in the mud

I forgot how it feels to just be GROOVIN’ all day

A year after cutting loose to be independent I finally feel my brain coming back online.

2020-2023 was a fucking burnout machine.

My creativity returned almost instantly after leaving the corporate gobbledygook factory.

My ability to sustain focus and apply that creativity into long-term strategic ways...

that took much, much longer.

Price your burnout. PRICE. YOUR. BURNOUT.

@mattly @jenniferplusplus the short answer as established by Kasparov after Big Blue kicked his ass is that they're good at tactics, never strategy, and your questions are ultimately all about the long term strategy implications of what we build

A combustible mix in a world that can't think beyond this quarter's numbers

what’s really gonna fuck us up is when the AI purveyors quantify the lifetime carbon, energy and water consumption of a human developer and come out on top per 1000 SLOC

so be careful where you put the criticism goalposts

@jenniferplusplus I mean, it'll get even worse than SLOC, they’re gonna say "does better on leetcode" or whatever, too. I think Devin already has that in the marketing

But my thing is under the current game "costs energy, etc" is already priced into civilization to the point of its destruction, so we're going to need a different crowbar on this one

@mattly YO, gives a totally new meaning to concept!

Have you noticed how all the software is dogshit lately?

How all the software is shoving more and more junk at you that you never asked for?

How it’s nagging you with endless upsell overlays labeled “dismiss” in one obscure corner?

We’ve lost sight of the collaborative process between human and machine that software is meant to facilitate. Every user is just an orifice to shove additional functionality into, fattening the customer foie gras style into something more profitable

AI cannot “make features functionally free”

Because software success is bounded by HUMAN cognition. Humans need to actually apply this stuff to achieve human outcomes. Infinite feature bloat is not how you build software that achieves human outcomes.

And last I checked, the AI doesn’t have a bank account.

And that’s before we even get into how challenging it is to manage complexity at the code level.

Anyone who says AI erases opportunity cost needs the keys taken away, I’m sorry.

like what’s the endgame to this thinking?

Photoshop 2032 with advanced database functionality?

Blender 8.0 with a built-in home automation suite?

Maybe we’ve got Microsoft Excel with a video surveillance feature?

I get the OP is probably just auditioning for a move to VC. But it drives me absolutely up the wall to see how much success is visited upon people who don’t grasp what our actual fucking jobs are in this business.

Especially at a moment of unprecedented peril AND opportunity

@mattly seems fuckin’ like it!