mlady

Author here. I transcribed 400 old driving-video monologues (8 years' worth) into a queryable AI archive for $16.64 in Google API calls. This essay is about what I learned — and why I think "compounding taste" is a harder AI problem than compounding output.

If you’re using AI tools now, congratulations, you’re early. If you use them and don’t give up on them, congratulations, you’re going to have a ridiculous, potentially insurmountable advantage in output moving forward compared to AI “doomers”.

We talk about vibe coding doomers and analogous technological revolutions. We are factory farming code now.

not to spoil, but in the article I talk about vibe coding migration opportunities off of platforms like lovable, replit, n8n, etc and onto real cloud providers as an example.

The future is going to look a lot more entrepreneurial for everyone. Opportunities I see with vibe coding 6-12 months down the road.

thank you for the reference! I'm going to borrow the "outside in TDD" and see how well it works for my agents. they seem to do regular TDD well, but adding more structure to TDD seems like it would work even better.

Where I believe Agents will fit into the software development workflow, and why process is more important than ever for getting the most out of Claude and others.

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why?

Vibe Coding is a new skill, and everyone (including very senior people) is starting from scratch. We should give ourselves room to make mistakes and figure this thing out as a spectrum of skill, instead of a binary "it does or it doesn't work".

This post is half motivational / half beginner user guide.

It's waaaay shorter (and therefore less detailed) than Steve Yegge's original post, but I think it's got the bare minimum to get up and running on Gas Town.

I'm sure we're just working with the same tools thinking through the same ideas. Just curious if you've seen my newsletter/channel @enterprisevibecode https://www.enterprisevibecode.com/p/let-it-rip

It's cool to see others thinking the same thing!

any way to mass-import videos taken from the native iOS camera would be an amazing feature that I would pay $$$ for.

I've been recording myself driving in my car for years as sort of a journal, but never did anything with the videos. Will start using this!

I would argue the other way around. A "professional" gets paid for a job, full stop. A "vocation" derives from "to call", or someone's "calling", as in someone's purpose in life.

Maybe our etymology is what sets us up for work-life imbalance :)

Grappling. Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu specifically. I'm a purple belt (middle belt, halfway to black belt) and I understand things about manipulating how another human body moves that would either make my white belt mind of 8.5 years ago explode or it would be incomprehensible. It usually takes around 10 years for a person to go from white belt to black belt if they train consistently. There are exceptions, of course, but I usually liken the thought and mat time spent, knowledge acquired, and skills sharpened to obtaining a PhD.

"I'd rather have my future wealth come from value I create"

He doesn't say anything about trading time for money. If he creates value that scales, he can divorce his time from the money he makes.

The USD also has the full backing and power of the largest military on the face of the planet. It will last as long as that empire does.

I think there's a sweet spot somewhere. We're tending towards too much data now with hourly employees working from home but have their screens monitored for constant activity, even if it isn't value-producing.

I would refer you to the Parable of the Fisherman and the Businessman.

https://www.momentum-coaching.eu/en/inspiration/the-parable-...

TL;DR: try to live now in the way you would want to live once you achieve "financial independence"

It all depends on your goals and what you value. Sounds like you value professional advancement and fulfillment over everything, which is fine. Just know that there are companies that exist that stress "work-life balance" and mean it if you're looking to not sacrifice your personal life anymore.

I really hope you mean /s

In grappling (Brazilian jiu-jitsu), it is very apparent from one sparring round with a person to get a sense for what they know and get a general idea for their skill/belt level. The exact belt is determined by that person's coach by measuring their skill against their personal potential.

An analogy to software would be to pair program with a person. You both get a feel for each other's strengths and weaknesses while working on a particular problem. I feel that coding interviews try to replicate this, but fall short given time constraints.

I definitely agree with your assessment. Gary talks about "unworrying" part a lot, actually. Comparison is the thief of joy. If you compare yourself to others or "what you could have been / could still be", you're not gonna be happy with yourself. There is something "zen" about not being too worried/anxious about fulfilling your potential, but yet still driven enough to go out and improve yourself.

not sure why you're being downvoted. You even cited a source! I agree that his content is mostly "hustle your face off" IF you're NOT happy, and he only occasionally talks about what to do IF you ARE happy (which is keep doing what you're doing).

Gary Vee only preaches hustle if you're not happy with where you're at. And it isn't necessarily hustle to make more money. It's hustle to do what you want to do so that you are happy. If you are already happy, he just encourages you to "keep doing you".

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maybe there's some standard style guide that rules that out?

I would be interested in seeing how many "matches" digits would yield

Using this methodology more generally, it would be interesting to use NLP to identify the part of speech that is redacted to narrow the word search space.

In this example, the POS would be an adjective, and since the subject noun is plural, it would be more likely the adjective is a number

I think this goes back to the risk vs. reward the employer takes when owning and running a business. The owners took the risk of starting a business and is taking on additional risk of employing people.

I'd argue that it is a sign of a healthy company when each employee is producing more value than they are taking home in their paycheck.

I am instinctively for transparent salary information, but I'm not sure if I can intellectually back it up.

This seems like a principle that we've probably all experienced before with songs.

Just think of the last song you didn't know the words to and had to look up the lyrics. Next time you heard it, you heard the words clearer because you knew what you were looking for!

I experience this all the time and for years have just mumbled along to some parts to my favorite songs until I actually cared enough to see what they were saying.