Now is the best time to be a duct tape engineer

Post by louthy » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 11:05 AM UTC

fragmede wrote: post #79

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> take meetings while driving as well, though I stopped because it was perceived poorly by others. The lack of self awareness here is astounding. You’re in control of a two ton bullet, please concentrate on the road. Killing somebody because you’re not paying full attention is not a good look.

Why are you jumping to the worst possible interpretation? Who would you kill? America is full of long stretches of double digit hour drives through cornfields where you're not going to run into anything . At worse you'd hurt yourself. Obviously if you're in a city and there are people, even kids around, and you're not giving driving the attention it needs, you're an asshole. Fuck you. But how about not jumping to the…

Post by bityard » Fri, Jun 05, 2026, 10:17 PM UTC

skydhash wrote: post #55

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I don't know what those people are doing, but I built a personal day-to-day notes manager at work, for work, for under $20 in credits. Yes, I could have just used text files but this is less friction which means I'll actually stick to it. Nothing exactly like this already existed. It was built in under a week in small portions of spare time, and it probably would have been more like a month if I had to choose all the…

You have build "a stuff". But no one knows what the "stuff" is, and your comment is not exactly describing it. That's why it's so hard to converse with the AI proponents. They don't want to talk about what they've built and why it's awesome (at least for them). They just want you to take it at face value. If you're sharing something, just give enough details so that others can contrast to their own experience and lea…