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It was timewasting or avoidant behavior for sure, and often described negatively. But at least you were learning something.
Silicon Valley then spent the next few decades trying to understand that behavior so they could isolate it, strip all positive value out of it, and make it highly profitable.
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I wrote this project by hand in Sublime Text, which is more of a text editor than an IDE. I don't use ai, even for autocomplete. All of the code is unminified/unobfuscated in the index.html file, you can right click the page and view-source it.
I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.
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I do the same as you, except in vim. But increasingly I'm getting the nagging feeling that I'm wasting my time.
I made this project from start to finish in less than a day, and I feel it was well worth my time and effort.
I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1]. These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are. [0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099 [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107…
I've been waiting for someone to implement this well! I think in the future we might even have tiktok-style influencer videos generated from wikipedia content, who knows. I've been swiping a lot for the last 10 minutes and I'm not sure how much it's learning. I have some feedback. - I have never liked or clicked a biography but it keeps suggesting vast amounts of those - It does not seem to update the score based on…
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no but...why are you passing 40mb from your server to my device in a lump like that? All I'm getting from your serve is a title, a sentence, and an image. Why not give me say the first 20 and start loading the next 20 when I reach the 10th? That way you're not getting hit with 40mb for every single click but only a couple of mb per click and a couple more per scroll for users that are actually using the service? Look…
> no but...why are you passing 40mb from your server to my device in a lump like that? Because you need all of the cross-article link data, which is the majority of the 40mb, to run the algorithm. The algorithm does not run on the server, because I care about both user privacy and internet preservation. Once the 40MB is downloaded, you can go offline, and the algorithm will still work. If you save the index.html and…
You did a great job and I love hearing that you did it all by hand in a day rather than having AI make it for you.
I think what is interesting is that it is not necessarily the content of the brainrot that makes us underperform, but the act of swiping [0] and the context switching [1]. These attempts to make educational short form content still suffer from the same drawbacks, so I wonder how effective they truly are. [0] https://cyberpsychology.eu/article/view/33099 [1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/09658211.2025.252107…
I think it's "this one is good but if I swipe the next one can be even better", i.e. classic dopamine addiction. Stop digging!