The data seemed like it could be interesting but I found it tough to engage with the “stylish” AI prose and UI flourishes. Is there a human-written long-form article to go with this?
an artisan blogpost? Is this 1999?
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dont know man I spent a long time on it, everyone on HN was taking the piss out of people who used LLM for coding just 6 months ago, and now you literally get fired if you dont use it. Saying "oh you used Ai to help with the design" is basically a diminishing insult at this point, you might be considered an idiot if you dont in 6 months time. I appreciate your feedback but my point is the delineation between "hey g…
You say you don't know but you have people in here telling you and you're not listening. Code is for machines, words are for humans. Do you not see a distinction? Machine time is paid for in electricity, human time is paid for by our lives. Who cares if machines churn on garbage? Why should we spend our limited time on this earth reading machine output?
I contend the whole point of the short blog post is to show you the facts and figures not to waste your lifetime by having you read my scattered thoughts , but I understand your words
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
OP here sorry Ive jsut always had a instincitve attraction to design even though Im just an autistic programmer. if it looks gaudy I apologise I was just trying my best to get a Spectrum 48k loading screen aesthetic, with a 4chan green text type summary vibe. It wnated to keep the data concise and minimal hence the lack of typed out prose. Its an experiment Im doing with the way I do stuff sorry if it sucks
The animations make it quite slow on my system. Maybe there's a way to figure out if users actually have webgl enabled and only then do the animations.
if added an auto low fidelity option that kicks in for visual effect if fps falls beflow 30fps ( manual toggle is top right) lmk if it doesnt work. I also dleteda buch of useless effects that were high intensity. thanks again for the feedback,
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#54People don't have hobbies anymore. I can probably count on 1 hand the number of people I talk to that actually have a real hobby, something they do in their spare time. Everyone’s just scrolling these days.
It comes down to your definition of hobby. For instance some people consider listening to audio books as "reading books" or riding e-bike with hardly any pedaling as "cycling".
I can assure you my "hobbies" (not sure whether reading/discussing about tech, following news, watching movies, playing (video) games, travelling/hiking, ocassionally playing table tennis or minigolf qualifies as hobbies) are pretty much same as they were before smartphones, I just have much less time with work and kids than I used to have, though at least trying to incorporate kids where possible like table tennis, minigolf, hiking, playing (video) games.
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#55You know, "stealing your attention" is just a socially accepted phrase to mean "wasting your time." Don't waste your time.
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think it would have been much more insightful if you just shared your thoughts directly. I'm not interested in reading Claude output. A lot of people spend more than an hour writing a post and it usually results in a better experience for everyone.
Thank you for the feedback man, again I spent a coupe hours on this post, but Ill try to type more
For a lot of us who have spent a lot of time writing, the process of formulating our thoughts in a way that's legible to other folks has also forced us to think about the material we are writing about in ways that hopefully clarify the content for us or change how we understand the topic.
Because of that work, I have very little trust in the thinking of folks who don't care enough to engage deeply with the process of formulating their thoughts in a way other folks can understand.
"Do what thou wilt" and all, but you might consider that the process of writing is a helpful adjunct for thinking.
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#57Looks cool. And it stole my attention for a few seconds. ;)
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#59it took me 11 seconds to realize it was AI slop.
Im getting triggered now, I used AI to help gather the data and the charts, Ill endeavour to use more manual labour with the grammer which Im basically terrible at but thank you for the (you)
Oh, by the way, it's grammar, not grammer. ;)