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I guess that depends on how you define "think". I wouldn't say that AI thinks. I admit the analogies aren't perfect, but the analogies are mostly used to help explain the empirical…

> Fewer developers required to achieve the same things means a lot of people are going to be unemployed I don’t think that's a foregone conclusion. Every company I’ve worked for ha…

For context, this was a newsletter issue sent as part of a marketing campaign for my latest course. It was an elephant in the room in the sense that up until that point, my marketi…

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Oh hi HN! I'm Josh, the creator of this course. For context, Whimsical Animations is my new course that focuses on creating beyond-the-basics animations and interactions with moder…

++. I find it kinda baffling that people assume that the ideal endgame is "AI makes whatever the user wants". What I want is to have interesting novel experiences crafted by talent…

This stuff is such an abomination. What a terrible thing to release into the world.

++. Was surprised I had to scroll so far to find someone saying this!

Thanks for the tip!

I added a note about this a bit later in the post, but the issue was that all of the optimization services I use strip out the color profile, and I don’t know enough about webp or …

Yeah, sorry about that - there is specifically an issue with Firefox on Android. It’s a very small % of my traffic, and remote debugging Firefox seems a bit tricky, so I haven’t pr…

Author here — yeah, so my goal with 200% was to make the code as comprehensible as possible. My actual glassy header does something quite similar to what you’re suggesting, but tha…