TimByte's comments

On: How will the miracle happen today?

[TimByte]

Just people choosing to be slightly more attentive than they strictly need to be

On: How will the miracle happen today?

[TimByte]

Now interruption is the default state, and attention is already fully saturated before another human even enters the picture

On: How will the miracle happen today?

[TimByte]

The hitchhiking framing is powerful because it strips things down to trust and openness

On: Always bet on text (2014)

[TimByte]

LLMs didn't get good because text is flashy; they got good because text is dense with intention

On: Always bet on text (2014)

[TimByte]

Yet you don't need special tools, schemas, or viewers to get some understanding out of it

On: Always bet on text (2014)

[TimByte]

I think some of the binary tooling exists less because engineers hate strings and more because humans aren't the primary consumers anymore

On: Always bet on text (2014)

[TimByte]

Where I keep coming back, though, is that text still seems to be the backbone that lets those richer systems scale and persist

[ignoramous → TimByte]

Especially today when UI & tools built around LLMs, specifically code gen & image gen, demonstrate a seismic shift in just how far text will go.

On: Always bet on text (2014)

[TimByte]

Text feels boring only until you notice how much work it quietly does better than everything else... And pragmatically: text respects time and bandwidth

On: Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge

[TimByte]

Text has always been treated differently than images or video, partly for historical reasons and partly because regulating it runs straight into classic First Amendment landmines

On: Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge

[TimByte]

My guess is that Utah\Louisiana will either pause, copy-paste the same approach and hit the same wall