The best part of the new and improved and redesigned Sonos app is how it doesn't work at all 50% of the time. #VariableReward #sonos
Perfect take: jenniferplusplus.com/losing-the-imitation-game/
Too dense with 💯 quotes to quote. I was working on a similar post but now I have to just work my subpar thoughts around said quotes.
Stage 1 of the #tourdefrance was the best I can remember in a long time. I've watched the finish 5 times now and got goosebumps every time. Every single commentator has used the term "masterclass" to describe the winning tactics. Winner in his last ever TdF, his teammate who made it happen in his first ever TdF. This reaction from the team car:
"patz and I borrowed a car and took a 3 hr drive to the small factory that make our caps in a rural farm town, 1.5 hrs from Milan. living most of my adult life beneath the stubby shade of one of these things; from this very factory — it felt like a pilgrimage of sorts"
Tim Blake Nelson is an awesome human
I wish I could remember the person I anonymously referenced in the last paragraph of daniel.industries/2011/04/02/existential-indifference/
"...delivering software is more like delivering a gooey crying baby. It’s alive. Squirming, growing, and changing because the technologies it relies on do too. Physical materials rarely change, but web browsers, operating systems, and servers sure do."
Y'all...I've been honestly trying to use GenAI to help me write some stuff. I'll get stuck on something and throw it to a few different tools, one of which is even using my own writing for reference. The stuff it generates is driveling shit.
This begs the question: the people bullish on even this most basic of LLM tasks...are they just that bad at writing in the first place?
Another fun fact: I've been using GitHub Copilot off and on since it was released, and have a mostly favorable view on its capabilities, as long as the user knows what they're doing in the first place. But you know what it can't do? Write AI apps. Seemingly because the APIs are changing so frequently. It will give you API v1 and v2 syntax all mixed together. It's hilarious.
Same goes for trying to use ChatGPT (4o!) to write anything with the OpenAI API.
People get really excited when a model writes a working program when the only times I've seen that work is when it is so bog standard that it is no different than copy-pasting from a GitHub repo.
Given the average number of edge cases in even the most standard web app, things go off the rails pretty fast.
Although the real deceit of "AI" c. 2024 isn't the tech and what it can or can't do. It's businesses still treating software development as a cost center, laying off devs at the same time they extol plans to build more features thanks to GenAI's ability to vomit boilerplate.
*It's the features that cost money, regardless of who wrote them*
I want to start an anti-feature software movement, but not from a UX or engineering standpoint. From a business standpoint. Lean methodologies are a diet aimed at keeping the business healthy. But feature factories are more like a host nearly consumed by parasites. They need to be detoxed.
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