michelb

Golden HN rule: the more complaints, the more successful the product will turn out because normal people like it. It’s like the inverse Cramer.

When the patent trolls die down and accuracy improves.

All folding phones will converge to this.

Who knows? :) I have to say that for me, making something physical is a greatly fulfilling diversion.

Yeah, exactly. I cannot wait to use this to take care of the boring stuff.

Both were incredibly cheap until a few years ago, but I have no insights into their business.

16 is fine if you don’t connect your phone to rhe internet, or use sms.

I suspect it just hasn’t been a priority problem in the past. This could very well have been a premature optimization when compared to getting services up and running reliably.

I think for that to happen we may need to replace one or two VP’s. But hey, maybe in the next MacOS Apple has used Claude to work through all the bugs and deferred optimizations.

TIL Flipboard is still alive.

There are a ton, there is Typora (paid) and there is https://github.com/joelbqz/writer-computer (Tauri)

But Macdown is a universal binary? https://github.com/schuyler/macdown3000 So it should just keep working

Simular stories. I work in an L&D company with about 15 coworkers. I think most of us use Cowork/Chatgpt Work almost fulltime. Haven’t used Word or Excel in two months other than to check or correct a bit of formatting from the AI. We now also go straight from Cowork to our CMS for finalizing. Tremendous timesavers but also better integration through our MCP. (AI is used for ideation, information research and writing the first version based on our guidelines. We finalize and/or rewrite material in the CMS by hand. No AI to consumer without verification or editing)

That is of course the big question. Longest projects I have running are about 1.5 years old now and used daily by my coworkers. The projects got a huge rewrite when Opus came out.

I hope we can quickly escape these tasks and the focus on coding. It’s all very superficial. There are a ton of serious AI workloads imaginable and I haven’t seen anyone pushing those frontiers, at least not publicly. Nvidia had a shiny keynote about their digital twin of the world for solving large problems but i guess that one died already.

>A lot of code is being written and a lot of it is going to be a real future burden.

I don't think we'll be looking at code at all within the next few years. I know I already don't anymore. The code is not the product for me, and as long as any model, commercial or local, can maintain it (or recreate it), I'm fine. When I make a drawing in a vector drawing program I don't export to PostScript to see if they calculated the bezier curves correctly either.

I'm convinced most code will be ephemeral in a few years.

A well-known Dutch photographer made handy tool: https://eclipse.albertdros.com

I use it to keep tabs on competitors, finding out what potential prospects are posting, mapping out relations between companies in our focused industries, etc. Basically for new business signals.

It’s a great additional channel to find recent info on companies and people. Sites are usually stale, people post a ton of stuff on LinkedIn. We don’t get our clients through linkedin, but it gives our salespeople better angles to attack.

We used it for recruiting but it’s not great for that, tons of low quality replies. We never reach out, i personally hate that.

I think they could remove most of what they have added to the OS in the past 6-7 years and I wouldn’t even notice or miss it.

It did for me, but n=1.

Elon Musk is everyone's problem

Interesting how bad this is when you don't use video models and your own direction.

The first two clips are made with Kling (not affiliated, but I use it myself): https://xcancel.com/PJaccetturo/status/2076312902685085815#m

Obviously not one-shot, and finalised in a video editor. It's quite doable to get this kind of fidelity.

I Think it’s because when you have enough money to never have to work again and you can move to some place nice, you can isolate yourself and your family from the rest of the world, like most rich people do.

So that’s what, 4-5 years at a society destroying tech co in exchange for lifelong freedom away from the people you have actively made life worse or impossible for.

It seems many people can live with that and in fact will jump at a chance to do it.

i hate it, but plenty of people DO like it and plenty of people talk and write like that. It’s just corpspeak, being used a lot in the valley and beyond. And all upcoming hustlers running startups now feel the need to speak like that, feeding this machine.

Exactly ;) which is why I plan my travels through Germany a bit different.

In part because of the destruction DOGE has caused any future democratic ruler will have a very tough time. It’s already neigh impossible to undo most of the damage the Trump party has caused, but it’s absolutely impossible to fix what DOGE destroyed, particularly without the evidence.

A new democratic government will be burdened by failing institutions, services, missing funds and whatnot, ensuring victories for the coming dictators.

Germany is quite predictable compared to some other countries.

So I've now lost all my ChatGPT chats? Or did they hide them? I see some of them, but the history is inaccessible??

Edit: I found them back in the 'classic' version of the app. Wildly confusing what is going to happen to the data there, chats, projects, custom GPT's.

This is going to be fun tomorrow when everyone at the company I work at finds out all their chats, projects and GPT’s are ‘gone’ after they ‘update’. And not a word about this switcheroo ‘data loss’ in their comms. Wow.

Thanks, they definitely also belong on that list.

Worrying for sure. But I doubt the current USA, along with Israel and Russia are going to be bothered about this. Everyone is launching satellites and other gear into orbit for war.

Plenty of people still work at Meta and are applying. Trying to get the good money, Meta on the CV, move on to another overpaying tech co, grind a few years and never have to work again.