Really appreciate the authenticity of the site design in the age of AI but damn! It is hurting my eyes!
Never Enough
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#42This reminded me of work in general, years ago I was thinking how nursery was so expensive. I could try and work harder, earn more, to pay for nursery - or just quit and look after my children. If the goal was making money to look after my children, why make it difficult? p.s. LOVE the animated header on this blog
It's like the century old fable about the businessman and the fisherman.
Nothing new.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I think it's ultimately about finding the organization that fits the workflow you want. This is a key point, and one that is rarely articulated. The problem -- for me, anyway -- with the Current Era is specifically the workload, but the relentlessness. I'm old enough to remember the Old Days of big release dates. You'd grind for a while, sometimes in a deathmarch, but after the release the organization would relax…
I'm a programmer with about 7 years of experience in programming work. I appreciate hearing this from someone with far more experience than I have. senior sir.(In Korea, the word senior is sometimes referred to as one of the positions, but it is also used as a respected adult. I also think it's about the workload. A senior from my country (Korea) once told me something similar. He had 25 years of programming experien…
the resting points are disappearing and so are humans, if we look at the natality rates.
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#44>Everyone is chasing the person ahead of them This is part of what turns grasshoppers into locusts. They're attempting not only to eat the insect in front of them, but escape the one behind that is attempting to eat them. I'll leave it up to the reader to complete the metaphor.
> Increased tactile stimulation of the hind legs causes an increase in levels of serotonin.This causes the locust to change colour, eat much more, and breed much more easily. [1]
Fascinating.
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#45Pure rage bait. Strong claims require strong evidence - which isn't offered here. And besides, maybe the person running dates by Claude just does that for a bit of fun as a hobby. People have weird hobbies! Better not to yuck someone's yum. Maybe alternatively it's that person's way of experimenting with these new tools to explore what they can do. Maybe that person will discover something - for example, ebay was a t…
> Strong claims require strong evidence I wish more people viewed things this way. Feels like a lot of the public discourse now is "strong claims, vibes as evidence".
Anything presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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#46> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole. That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm ta…
I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs
Research has repeatedly shown that people can only be productive a certain number of hours in a week. People who work more then a healthy number of hours are probably doing busywork.
I have always taken off nights and weekends and I have built a lot of things I am proud of. I am also very happy with my career so far.
I'm in my forties now with a teenage kid and I often realize how fast life flies by and we only get one shot at it. So I'm very happy I chose to work part-time some years, so that I could spend the afternoons with our kid.
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#47> Technology was supposed to make room for life but instead for more and more people life is slowly being rearranged around AI. It's been downright spooky to watch people I know personally or been familiar with totally fall down the rabbit hole. That said, like with everything, it depends on the person. Some people are taking the Jack Nicholson route, others are finally taking time off and enjoying their life (I'm ta…
> (I'm taking off nights and weekends for the first time in a decade, solely because of the speed up of LLMs).
Why weren't you taking them off before?
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#48>The other story covers a founder who has Claude review her first dates and tell her whether she was engaging and empathetic enough, thanks to recording every single one of them. Two people meet and afterwards, rather than talk to the other person or trust her own judgment, one of them sits alone with a machine and asks how well she performed. Holy insanity
It's hard to say how common that is though. We can't really extrapolate from one example.
I hope that person finds more confidence and especially starts having fun, because that's what dating can be.
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#49This reminded me of work in general, years ago I was thinking how nursery was so expensive. I could try and work harder, earn more, to pay for nursery - or just quit and look after my children. If the goal was making money to look after my children, why make it difficult? p.s. LOVE the animated header on this blog
FWIW, in some countries it's very normal for both parents to work part-time. E.g. both work 32 hours, so that one of the parents can be at home during the afternoon four days a week. Then the grandparents fill the remaining days. From 8:30-14:00, the kids go to daycare (or later school), good for socialization with other kids.
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#50This is still not as weird as the valley was in the late 1990s during the first Internet bubble, with the exception that housing scarcity, which was notably bad then (I had to pay my year's rent up front to secure an apartment in San Francisco), has been left to fester for 2 decades.