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I think there's a balance between high paying and intrinsically rewarding. You dont always need to work a soul crushing job in order to make a lot of money. And I think you're kind…

I'm really confused by this comment. I know what I am now. In the grand scheme of things nothing matters, but we don't live in the grand scheme of things, we live right now. The po…

At least here in America, our politicians lose their shit if they see someone getting money without working for it (as if politicians don't already get paid for doing almost nothin…

Blue collar work, but obviously that labor market would get saturated pretty quickly.

Can't remember where I saw it but some years back someone wrote something like "if the punishment for a crime is financial then it only deters poor people" which makes sense.

> GitHub is incredibly complex I'm reading this a day after GitHub had a day-long outage on Actions. https://www.githubstatus.com/uptime/br0l2tvcx85d

The status quo is already bizarre. Meta is actively profiting from harming minors. The alternative (minors getting a payout by visiting harmful websites) seems pretty tame by contr…

For my wife's birthday, I generated a fantastical image of our family (me, her, daughter, two cats) because staging such a thing IRL would have been difficult. It took me several h…

I haven't done research on this but I feel like a lot of stock image companies are using AI now

Not that either are OK, but McDonalds basically stages their food to make it look more appealing, adding stuff that isn't in the product to make it look nicer. https://youtu.be/pSY…

To be honest I first read it as LoneWolf and I was like "that's a clever name" and then I realized it was a typo. LoneWolf and LobreWolf are still available ;)

The person you responded too didn't mention app though. They just said static. OP was talking about an app but the responded was hypothesizing about something static. Anyway I'm no…

I mean most startups and every billion dollar company are worth a lot because they are good bullshitters, in a way its kinda refreshing to see more people able to bullshit their wa…

Any recs?

Maybe it's because my org gave us permission to fail and make mistakes, but I transitioned to AI driven development pretty quickly and am having fun learning how to best drive the …

Skill issue /s But seriously, lots of apps are just glorified NextJS apps which have tons of training data. Something like rust would likely churn out nonsense that compiles eventu…

> People almost acting like no one has thought of it Everyone at my job uses LLMs to code, all day long. People still ask me "why does this bug happen" and I use Claude to find out…

The most annoying thing is whenever I encounter a form with an email input I get an ad right there -- "use our email mask relay! First five are free!" I can probably turn it off so…

Nice thanks for sharing!

Ok. Today I learned. But I'll still continue to use -- because I don't care enough to be correct and most people will understand me regardless. Being pedantic about it doesn't seem…

My personal "tell" is that I use -- instead of em-dash. If you get a message from me with an actual "—" character it's almost certainly AI generated. I guess that's kind of my dure…

Out of curiosity, what are you building, and how? Im working on two side projects and I have to try hard to hit the limit with Claude (like use fable and a deep research task)

Thats probably by design tbh. Every company is working on the next big thing, employees sign NDAs and non competes, because companies don't want other people to deliver on their "n…

I've seen many people sell products and courses with price parity, meaning someone in the US pays one price and someone in South Africa pays less. Me, as a software engineer, will …

I signed into my Playstation account on a new phone. It told me to make a passkey. Its safe. So i said ok. Later I tried to sign into my Playstation account on my computer and I co…