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AI use in the creation of this article is inconsequential. There is obvious joy and high fidelity information here. Perhaps some vibe coding made the animations easier to develop, …

Perfect kind of intuitive. It was a joy to figure it out, and just "learn by doing".

Focused generally on communication, with BPMN being one tool among many. No one here gives a 1/2 damn about BPMN, but I think you will find the article worthy of the 5 minutes.

I love the story of Clever Hans, which says so much about humans and so little about horses - I get the point that it makes these experiments very difficult.

my dad passed away within a year of retirement. I remember there being studies at the time saying this was common, but the research doesn't seem to hold this up as much any more. B…

Reminds me of the quote from A Princess Bride - Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something.

Accountability is especially beautiful when self directed. It isn't us holding the cat accountable for the vase. That is pointless. The cat holding itself responsible, that is what…

I work for a small start up. We often work with corporations. It does, from a distance, seem like giving a shit separates the two. I feel that. But you look inside big companies, a…

I'm just drinking wine and working late, and it occurs to me that my job in this brave new world of LLMs is that I care. The ability to give a damn seems well outside an LLM's capa…

I love "small internet theory." Beautiful view of the future.

You may have said it better than I, in shorter words. An LLM in the hands of someone with expertise is life changing, and in the hands of someone without it - it's a bit dangerous,…

Power tools did not remove people. They make woodworking accessible to more people. They make more complex projects possible. They make furniture less expensive. We don't have less…

Spent a delightful weekend in Quebec last month. Beautiful city, great culture, friendly people, best damn duck I have ever eaten in the a resteraunt they must having teleported fr…

Great tool for a Makerspace - really appreciate the ability to use the same tool for laser cutting, 3d printing, and CNC. These are big jumps for people typically - having a famili…

What brings me back to hacker news are these posts that ask questions yanked unexpectedly directly from my own soul, in words more articulate than I could manage. And then somehow …

12 years ago I got divorsed. My wife and I had a company together, and she kept the company. I hadn't spent time with family in years, had few friends outside of work. I did indepe…

Same experience with Google. I was setting up SSO for a new web application and set off some AI flag on a sub domain for our company website. For 2 weeks every visitor saw a warnin…

All these comments are from the standpoint of being managed, with a derogatory view of someone who would stoop so low as to take a management role. I liked the article. Managing pe…

I hate web forms. You hate web forms. Especially when when they are long. Or one form follows another after another after another. We have conversational LLM's that can make this f…

We are working on a workflow engine as well - picking up concepts from the past - not quite as far back as mainframes, but I respect looking back to the past for things that work w…

*The Problem:* AI decisions are opaque to business users *The Solution:* AI agents are defined as flow-chart diagrams that are easier to understand and control. The diagram and age…

brilliant link. This says everything I had to say with far greater eloquence.

I help run a Makerspace, will definitely be looking into this. Great idea. I know many adults that should start out on such a tool!