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If you don't accept this particular argument then there are plenty more. This one is just quick and easy to convey.

There are very solid arguments backing up the same general points that require time to communicate and require good faith attempts to understand from the other party. But you probably don't want those either.

So do it. Everything AI assisted I've made has involved a ton of work. The only difference AI has made is that I've increased the level of my ambition and avoided a ton of things that were previously blockers.

Presumably a decent chunk of those might now reconsider?

> When the computing revolution first rolled around, some people perhaps tried to use MS-DOS as a writing tool (I’m guessing, I was five). We then built upon that to create the word processor.

Cough, WordStar, cough...

I know the initial "why". I just don't understand why it wasn't removed after a month.

"How" Gyroscopes Got So Small.

God, I so hate the auto-title "fixing" feature on HN.

How come I hadn't already seen that? Thank you.

Please try and dial back the hyperbole. It doesn't help your case.

> Well-written prose is far less likely to go viral but far outstrips the importance rendering a fantasy world in one shot.

I'm not entirely sure you're correct. Your claim boils down to "Writing natural human prose" vs "Broad use of complex software and spatial awareness". My gut feeling is that there's more untapped and fruitful applications in the second group than the first - at least in the short term.

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My first memory of her being mentioned on this site was the dawning skepticism followed by the big expose. But it's possible I missed the fawning because it didn't sound as interesting

But you couldn't make me review it. Anyway I think you're just straw manning what I was trying to say. I probably didn't express it terribly clearly and I'm not invested enough in this debate to put any more time in.

Not a mathematician but surely if a problem I was working on had an AI also working on it, I would want to know as early as possible - even with flaws or gaps. What advantage is it to me to be less informed?

Or house flipping TV shows

I can't be sure but I vaguely recall it being associated with the big Microsoft antitrust court case? Along with the delightful phrase "knifing the baby"

That's odd. I've been aware of that word for decades.

Here's how I think about it. There's two different things "knowing how to use AI effectively" and "knowing how to leverage effective AI to improve your project".

1. Both are multipliers on skills you already have. A "noob" will be at a disadvantage.

2. The second one is a complex blend of technical skill, domain knowledge and human factors (knowing your user-base, knowing your product/project, understanding UX/DX/whatever) that you probably will always have an edge on.

To be fair - my recollection was "representing browser vendors and pragmatists". It was far from rhe industry stitch-up that that might sound like to modern ears.

Yeah - the lack of hand holding is partly laziness and partly intentional. I personally love digging into deep visual toys and figuring out what various button presses do.

But I probably do need to make it a little less mysterious and fix some of the obvious ux gotchas.

The brief tutorial is also probably slightly out of date since I added some features.

At the danger of spamming this (well - posting it for the second time in 6 months) - I'm still trying to find the select demographic who appreciate this:

https://ixxyxr.github.io/polyhydra-web/?m=3

DeepSeek v4.1 Flash is fascinating and uneven. It's way too chatty in OpenCode to be a collaboration partner. I tried dsh-tui which feels comparable to the codex/claude tui's and it's usable. but it seems to be "brilliant and yet stupid" in a way I can't quite put my finger on. I've got too much real work to get done to dig into it so until the big boys price me out of the market I'm back to my $100/month deal.

Nonsense. VR was and still is sustainable as a profitable niche product for specific use-cases. Zuck spending billions to try and own a new mass market category has nothing to do with that.

I'm fairly sure most open weight model providers are serving them at a sustainable price - and I've used them enough to know that I could live with them if the big boys did a rug pull.

If you told us which model that was or roughly when, then your comment would be more helpful.

I wasn't implying that it was okay to "steal" things because they were offered voluntarily. My position on this is kind of complex and nuanced but this particular reply was meant to state the opposite.

A huge chunk of the content that was scraped was most likely provided voluntarily rather than being waged labour.

Most days often for several hours.

You don't need 4k in the headset panels to simulate a 4k monitor. The virtual screen isn't glued to your head.

I work on a Quest 3 no problem. This is sharper.

I disagree and I've got one