jmathai

Multiple taxation is not the problem. It's reforming tax law and charging on things that have already paid taxes.

Imagine tax reform which collects an extra 1% of sales tax for items you have already purchased.

I'm all for reforming tax such that the wealthy cannot dodge them and pay a higher effective tax rate. I just don't know how to get there.

Elon moved the Tesla HQ to Austin which employs around 22k people. I'm not sure how much that moves the needle but it's not 0. California is doing just fine but if I were a public servant there then I'd think twice before making sweeping reforms.

I think it's difficult to tax people on money they've earned and "paid" taxes on. The billionaire tax in CA is a good example. It makes sense that the ultra wealthy would rather move than to pay that tax - for lots of reasons ranging from greed to wanting to decide how their wealth gets used.

It reminds me of student loan forgiveness. It's too hard to retroactively forgive them. It may sound good in theory but it's not fair - i.e. for people who worked 2 jobs while going through college.

The laws for wealth accumulation moving forward need to be reformed and I think we have to accept that we let people run away with massive wealth and it turned out to be not the best thing for society.

Some lessons are learned the hard way.

If the HQs move then along with them moves the high paying jobs and retail, housing, etc taxes also go. Rank and file employees at Meta can't dodge taxes as efficiently as their CEO.

My kids and their friends all dislike AI. I haven't put my finger on why, yet.

I think a part of it is a growing negative perception of technology. I think they're smarter than we might give them credit for and can feel when they're being exploited.

Maybe, despite not liking schoolwork they dislike more being a "dumb pipe" between AI and their teacher. We've stripped away purpose in the name of efficiency (and profit).

Some of the adults in charge....really shouldn't be. And I'm not referring to teachers or school administrators here.

We have 2 Frame TVs. It's a great product if you aren't someone who obsesses over picture quality and have the budget.

I'd love a clean UI to accompany the minimalistic design of the TV itself...but this looks a bit early for me to try :).

Not yet, unfortunately. Nor Android, which people have asked for.

I think Android would be supported first but no specific timeline for it yet.

I built this for my own private use but it’s since become public.

Free to use, no accounts, no subscriptions.

https://trysojourn.app

I was using Claude to bounce ideas for parenting with a focus on biblical principals. Trying to really understand how to discipline my children without provoking them, for example.

I was pleased with the experience but Claude did not make it easy for me to dive deeper into scripture. I wanted a different LLM chatbot experience that was focused on less chatting and more scripture reading.

I TestFlighted it out and friends liked it so I ended up publishing it.

Exposing yourself to great taste educates AND inspires. I love Peters Design Company and how amazing they are at identity branding.

Here's an example of rebranding Uhaul. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cMU0G8h0pys

The problem with a "software factory" as a dev is that it leads to infinite dev work. Build project A and struggle to get users, start project B.

The author is saying, build project A and stick with it. This isn't new to the "AI era" but it's more pertinent.

I think many of us have already started automating it so that they update alongside code changes.

I used their API for several years for a project to get reverse geocoding to turn city names into lat/lon pairs and vice versa.

Like Mapbox, I assume they have a profitable business selling their mapping services to other companies.

Can this work against a cheaper cloud LLM like Deepseek? https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/agent_integrations...

Screencast looks great btw.

I've found that many "skills" with regard to using AI become obsolete very quickly. It's really hard to stay ahead of the curve, IMO. I was using agents over 2 years ago and felt way ahead of the curve [1]. Today, Claude will spin up agents without even having been asked.

Feels a bit like a fools errand.

[1] https://www.loom.com/share/aa6e55acb18c445e9186637ac763c08d

This is an idea that a platform like Kickstarter used to be great at validating. I did this in 2012 and found around 500 users willing to pay for an open source photo management software.

Finding customers will be difficult. I suggest finding a couple and then talking with them to learn what they want first and then understand their willingness to purchase by offering them a device at a cost.

For me - I’m in the market. I flashed my Asus router with Merlin. I’d do the same for my next router. What might lead me to buy my next device from you?

- I like to support independent vendors when I can. (See caveats below) - I would like a built in way to keep the firmware up to date … mine is old. - I would want to understand the commercial equivalent router based on specs to make it easier for me to decide if it will meet my needs. - The rest is provided by DD-wrt.

Happy to be user #1. Contact in profile.

Trust over speed. That’s all that’s being said here.

I think that they will impact markets by reducing the amount of labor needed. I do not think that they will increase output or new products. Many companies believe that if they just had more manpower that they could generate new ideas in the market. But I don’t think that is true. This just leaves reduction in labor.

And just to be clear, I think LLMs will be a net negative on society.

Lobbying is teriboe and the explanation cited is good for those unfamiliar.

Also, political ads in the U.S. have become so obnoxious. I don’t know how it is elsewhere.

Ads in the U.S. are personal attacks at the opponents character or lies about them. There is currently an ad about how an opposing politician supports sex change surgery without parent consent. Nothing is believable about the ad - yet somehow it’s not slander or libel.

This is the ad. https://youtu.be/WFISHnLCmms

There are LLM optimists and LLM pessimists.

The optimists have been more correct in predicting the capabilities and usefulness of LLMs.

The pessimists seem to have a hard time rationalizing what they thought with what’s actually happening.

Art was always recognizable as effort and discipline.

We talk a lot about the consumer side of this. Consumers will get tired of the creative output of AI. That it lacks soul. I agree.

But there is also the artist’s side. A craft that you dedicate decades to that’s now indistinguishable from someone who typed a couple sentences. This is a demoralizing place to be.

The scope of what a single prompt can do continues to grow. I’m in the same boat as you but not as optimistic that it’ll be something I enjoy as a craft for much longer.

I misread his quote as him starting the lab as opposed to starting AT the lab.

For someone who does not know Swift? Absolutely, I do.

The comment is dismissive. I know plenty about this space. I’ve had both an acquired startup and spent about a decade at Google. I understand what complex software looks like.

> I was the chief architect, in over my head despite starting at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab back in 1978.

I used to read his articles back a decade ago. I really enjoyed them. This quote from the article resonated with me. It’s a sobering feeling having dedicated a career to the field to struggle keeping up.

RIP. He seemed to face a lot of struggles both physically and emotionally towards the end of his life.

I tried to set up a Wordpress site for someone last month. I suggested it because of the reasons you said.

I’m convinced that’s the only reason Wordpress is still popular. The administrative experience was atrocious. Actually, that is an understatement.

I agree with this. I’ve seen it in my workplace but even more profoundly in my personal endeavors where I have more freedom to explore.

My current project is created by one-shot prompts. That’s not some kind of parlor trick. It is the framework for creating and evolving the product.

Many people laugh it off as “unserious”. But as I said, I see this happening in my place of work where people are paid lots of money.

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/sojourn-for-ios-was-45-one...

I'm not anti-Google by any means. But their products just aren't as essential in my life like they were 10 years ago. I'm not in the majority but ...

Google Photos -> Immich (better)

Google Search -> Claude (better)

Google Calendar -> Apple Calendar (better)

Google Chrome -> Safari or Firefox - someone please make a basic browser that can handle 30 tabs without needing gigs of memory

Google Maps -> .... I've been seeing if MapQuest is "good enough"

GMail -> .... I think Fastmail is "good enough" - GMail's bells and whistles aren't as important anymore

I assume the crew needs to go through the same security that passengers do. Have they said how they got a knife on board the plane?

LinkedIn is truly an odd place. I think it’s more performative than Instagram.

I don't want to discount the amazing progress we've made with technology to improve people's lives.

There's the meme that the smartest people in the world are figuring out how to show ads. It's no different this time around. I understand that not everyone working on AI is building an ad network - but ultimately it feels like that's the end result.

It didn't feel quite this way 15 years ago. Back then, it felt much more tangible how technology was improving our lives. It is sort of tangible now too - I am doing things with AI that I otherwise couldn't. But somehow if feels like progress for the sake of progress.

And to be honest, it doesn't feel like the progress is for me or the people I care about.