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I would bet to be ready before the Superbowl ads

So many of the writer's issues with students today are things I did myself a good amount when I was in college around 15 years ago at this point. I skipped classes all the time and…

Perhaps, but at that point I feel like I'm spending more time feeding the tool the right prompt and context, going back and forth with corrections, etc... when I could just write t…

I feel like anytime I try these "agentic" programming tools they always fall on their face. Devin was pretty bad and honestly soaked up more time than it saved. I've tried Cursor C…

"Project Padawan" looks fairly similar to Devin, at least from a user experience perspective. From personal experience, Devin was pretty terrible so we'll see if Microsoft does any…

Honestly, that demo was pretty weak. If 2025 is really going to be the “year of agents”, then they need to do better than this.

I can't even properly put into words my hatred for AI generated "music"

The AI hype bros on social media are the actual worst and have done more damage than anything else to how I feel about AI these days. The grift has been at unbearable levels for mo…

Lol I missed that even though it's literally the first sentence of the blog, good catch. Yeah, that makes this result a lot less impressive for me.

Yeah I agree that wasn't particularly mind blowing to me and seems fairly in line with what existing SOTA models can do. Especially since they did it in steps. Maybe I'm missing so…

Quote from the creators of the AGI-ARC benchmark: "Passing ARC-AGI does not equate achieving AGI, and, as a matter of fact, I don't think o3 is AGI yet. o3 still fails on some very…

Direct quote from the ARC-AGI blog: “SO IS IT AGI? ARC-AGI serves as a critical benchmark for detecting such breakthroughs, highlighting generalization power in a way that saturate…

Don't forget the massive population decline set to literally halve the population in the next 70 years...

The more Sam Altman posts stuff like this, the more he comes across as a grifter hype man to me

Oh my god I don't know why I never made that connection until now. That is exactly what it feels like!

I saw a comment describing this increasing luddite response to new tech developments and it resonated with me. Essentially, the comment made the point that tech is advancing so fas…

Please no. Safari is the browser that gives our company the most pain by far in terms of development and user experience. And when I’ve personally tried using it on my various Macs…

I say something similar to my friends and colleagues all the time regarding my “professional” software projects. It takes 20% of the time to do 80% of the work. But that last 20% o…

While I agree it's not some irrefutable data point, I think it does at least give some indication as to the current zeitgeist.

I just canceled my Copilot subscription last night. I definitely never saw the productivity boost that I’ve seen so many claim. I actually feel like the suggestions seemed to get w…

I developed/published mobile games for awhile during and immediately after college. I think my games saw somewhere in the ballpark of 500,000 downloads and I made "OK" income from …

Yeah that makes sense and it's why I'm forcing myself to try and use these tools. I feel like it can be a boon if I find the right use case in my workflow.

I’ve heard many people say that but I have yet to try it with that particular task. I will give it a shot.

I signed up for a Copilot trial a few weeks ago and so far my feelings on the tool are mixed. When a code suggestion is correct it’s nice but it honestly feels like a very rare occ…

This has been something that's been bothering me more and more over the years. I often feel like I'm just standing on the shoulders of giants that came before me. Occasionally, I d…