johnwheeler

ThankS!!

I know Google has anti-gravity but do they have anything like Claude code as far as user interface terminal basically TUI?

Same here

So it sounds like you get extra memory at the expense of having to compact more because, of course all those things are going to take up context. But since you’re not interacting with it in some kind of turn based fashion it makes it worth it— the lack of context doesn’t matter. Is that correct?

Agreed

I just dislike Sam Altman, and I think he's just using this as a marketing ploy, which is more dishonesty from him. People keep saying OpenClaw is hype. I installed it, but I never tried to run it, and I don't know what the compelling reason is to. Supposedly you can talk to your agent from your iMessage? Who cares? Why not just talk to Claude Code?

His voice doesn't sound that distinctive to me. He's going to have a hard time unless he can find some emails that say, use David Green's voice.

People ship stuff that doesn't make sense at first blush all the time. But how are they ever supposed to even get into the space if they don't try something? Try to get some customers, see what people want. On day one, he's not saying he's going to compete with Figma. He's just getting it out there. Your comment—You could say you're just asking questions or giving constructive criticism, but it just assumes the negative on so many levels. I can criticize your viewpoint. Why do you think someone should have a product that's ready to compete with Figma on day one? Do you seriously expect him to have an answer for that?

Wasn't Bob Dole a technology investor? That would make sense.

Why do I always hear the cURL guy's opinions on this and that?

AIs don't generate junk. Engineers with little experience _think_ they generate junk. Or engineers on that bandwagon, which in my opinion is driven by denial or naivety

If you know what the fuck you're doing, they're incredible. Scary so.

I'm tired of AWS full of hidden fees and tricking you into things that you didn't know you were paying for until a month or two goes by.

Good (if legit)

What's funny is I feel compelled to say "please" and "thank you." Like even at the point where I say it, something will say in my head, "You don't have to say that," but I do it anyway because it feels wrong not to.

I bet it would be probably even nicer. I've been programming DSP in C++ with JUCE. I have a very rusty C++ experience from years ago, but it's getting me through a lot of it, and I feel pretty comfortable. Maybe my ignorance is bliss, and I'm really just putting out bad shit.

No, I said palliative care. That's to ease suffering. So you're telling me we should forego cancer treatments for young cancer patients so 80-year-olds can get hip replacements? Is that what you think? Are you crazy? I never said just let people die. That's insane. It's about cost. In America, they don't just give healthcare for free, like wherever you probably live. I wish they did.

Sure, that sounds fine. Something like that. Something, damn it.

The government subsidizes a portion of ACA payments depending on income in America. Without the subsidies, it's unaffordable for probably 95% of the population. That's why most people rely on employer-sponsored healthcare.

I'm middle-aged so I don't really have a long time horizon but I do have expensive insurance. If you have employer-covered insurance, you don't know what the hell you're talking about. So it's easy for you to say.

Yes this is right

The subsidies are being given to the elderly in much greater proportion (free) and not the young

I took that out because I didn't think it was relevant. And yes, that is my point. Young people can't afford insurance in America. It's terrible. I think the GLP-1s are going to make things better. A huge problem, as everybody knows in America, is obesity. That's also a major tax on the system.

Well, I mentioned palliative care, but in general, I agree with you.

I would much rather doctors just get paid less. I took my son to the ER. He had a very high fever. They gave him a child's aspirin and me a $700 bill.

I just don't know what the answer is. And really, if you go into a hospital, you get the sense that there's people basically taking advantage of subsidized health insurance providers and patients both. Health insurance in America is absolutely atrocious. Next to gun fanatics, it's the worst thing about this country.

If you're 80 years old, you probably should not receive a subsidized hip replacement.

If you can't afford it on your own, there should just be a palliative care mandate after some age. We shouldn't save the soon-to-be-dead at the expense of the people with a long time horizon.

Or, we should pay doctors far less. I don't think they're multi-millionaires in other countries. Not all of them are in America, but many of them are.

Exactly. You can keep pushing it up the chain to the Investor. Then Sam Altman I guess.

I've been doing this for 25 years though so maybe that's why. But the bigger point is that again you're not giving me anything more than "it makes mistakes" Sure it does but it makes less of them now. It will make less in the future. Also Anthropic guys are in the same boat: They don't write _much_ code anymore. They just use Claude code, So I'm not the only one.

This is how I feel as well pretty much.

It's interesting you mention the loss of knowledge. I've heard that China has adopted AI in their classrooms to teach students at a much faster pace than western countries. Right now I'm using it to teach me how to write a reverb plug-in because I don't know anything about DSP and it's doing a pretty good job at that.

So maybe there has to be some form of understanding. I need to understand how reverb works, how DSP works in order to be able to make decisions on it, not necessarily implementation. And some things are hard enough to just understand and maybe that's where the differentiation comes in

It's that whole "this time it's different" argument I guess. This time it really does feel different is my worry.

Nor is it an impossibility. If the AI stays like it is right now, I think we're fine. In fact I would probably opt for that. I don't know what I would do.

I'm not trying to be snarky at all but maybe you're less experienced at prompting than me or you just have to work on some really gnarly code. Is that a possibility? Because yours is the argument that I can't say for myself.

The codebases I work on, I can pretty much delegate more and more to AI as time goes on. There's no doubt about that. They're not big unwieldy codebases that have lots of technical debt necessarily but maybe those get quickly replaced over time.

I just don't see this argument holding out over time that the AI will always make mistakes. I would love to be proven wrong though with a counter argument that jives