If you really want a community to take off, you have to basically schedule yourself to make content there.
The lessons from every group I’ve grown (and haven’t) is that consistency is key. You have to develop the habit in other people, and it might take a long time to start.
If you want to be a Twitch streamer, for instance, you have to do it at the same time every day.
Kind of. I don’t think the Internet will ever return to the heyday of Reddit.
Once governments and groups recognized that social media actually does move public opinion, that was the end of good, anonymous social media.
The ways to bring some of that back aren’t great. A community where everyone’s verified is much better, but it’ll be quite different from the Reddit days where you’d have (usually real) ridiculous subject matter experts chiming in on random threads.
You don’t get that with a small, verified population. And when you don’t have verification, well forever now have effectively psyops intending to influence you.
There was a day in 2003 when literally everyone who had touched a computer applauded without knowing why.
It was the day Iomega stopped producing zip drives because they were finally obsolete.
made as few changes as possible to the one Republicans had adopted.
It turns what should be a good, bittersweet moment into… resent, envy, and chiding.
And for what? Because so many cancer survivors campaign against cancer research and helping people with cancer? In my experience, they’re not exactly the pull up the ladder types.
Just a podcast.
Sometimes. Probably not on Facebook.
There’s a pretty good This American Life about it. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/740/there-i-fixed-it
In case you want the actual link:
https://bsky.app/profile/maxberger.bsky.social/post/3m6d2ed7lbc2d
Remember when people used to have 7-12 kids in the hopes that some would survive?
These people want to go back to that.
From diphtheria at https://maps.app.goo.gl/TosrRknL1aJeNu728
That might be true. But it’s important to note that we want the world to be more kind to everyone, and not universally unforgiving.
How is that message board going to be immune to this?
You get four seasons? Why am I only getting two?
(DC actually has 4 seasons.)
Lindsey Stirling, lofi girl
But not much more. Here’s a fun experiment you can try at home.
Go into a thread you generally agree with. Post something that supports that vibe, BUT start your paragraph with a negative word.
People will take the vibe from that one word and not consider the meaning of the rest of your post. They don’t comprehend sentences or paragraphs, they take the vibe of the first charged word they see.
That old autocomplete is great. It’s specifically the AI autocomplete that’s less useful.
Wow, well it’s absolutely terrible at A. B is worth a shot, but it’s 50/50 to bullshit you in my experience.
Eh, I’ve enjoyed writing a SQL query and having AI translate it to Linq. I’ve had at least one work directly, very clear on what it’s doing, just with Linq’s odd syntax. The other query was more complicated and wasn’t something that translated well to Linq. I may have had to split that into two Linq queries.
Then again, I wouldn’t count translating psuedocode (or SQL) as really vibe coding. To me “vibe coding” means you’re not really looking at the code it produces.
Yeah, I just wrote a blog post comment about how I enjoy using Copilot. But that’s when I explicitly ask it a question or give it a task. The auto complete is wrong more often than it’s right.
Probably doesn’t help that if it was tedious, boilerplate code I would have already explicitly asked it.
Pretty good and well balanced article.
As a professional software dev, AI is absolutely useful. But forcing people to use it is weird. And I never want to have to deal with a PM using AI to generate a PR and then having to review it. That’s absolutely not how you use AI, and more often or not that will be more work than just doing the whole thing yourself.
It’s critical to understand everything the AI is doing as it does it. Because, as the article said, if you don’t, you’re going to get subtle bugs that will be even more difficult to find later. And some of those bugs can be devastating. Add a number of those together and you have an unmaintainable mess.
don’t remember the syntax of the language they’re using due to their overreliance on Cursor.
I think this is pretty fine. Knowing what the situation calls for, knowing exactly how to accomplish it, and having the AI fill in the syntax for your psuedocode typically works pretty great. Something like “In the header add jQuery from the most common CDN. (Verify that CDN or this is a great vector for AI-induced malware/compromise.) Use an ajax call to this api [insert api url] and populate the div with id ‘mydata’.” That’s a pretty simple thing that it’ll likely handle pretty well and is easy to review.
The ways they’re forcing people to use it is kind of insane. But they’re doing that because they’re using AI as a justification for firing people. It doesn’t really work like that. Used properly will it speed up development? For most developers (anyone who used Stack Overflow), yeah. But that doesn’t mean a developer who’s juggling and maintaining 3 products can now suddenly handle 5. It doesn’t speed up context switching, really. And it’s not like it’s replacing the overhead of story boards, standups, change review boards, debugging, handling tickets, or other overhead. You might just spend 7 weeks developing a project instead of 8. And it can remove a bit of tedium (or add if you’re stupid about how you force AI).
It’s a useful tool. It shouldn’t be replacing a large number of developers. Of course they’ll fire the devs anyway, because like any other R&D the dividends are usually paid in the future. So in most cases, firing developers takes some time before you pay the toll, whether it’s opportunity cost, creating an unmaintainable mess, or losing the ability to maintain the things you already have. I expect that’s why the internet’s been falling apart lately. Fire a bunch of people and things they used to handle start to fall apart (or the people who have always handled those things get stretched too thin).
I expect they’ll probably follow code anyway? Because you know as soon as dipshit is out of there, they’re going to have to inspect that thing for safety reasons. And the contractor probably doesn’t want the reputation of building absolute crap.
On the other hand, if he’s as good as picking construction contractors as he is at picking lawyers or cabinet positions, well…