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More than writing code the IDE itself makes me anxious. Especially Xcode. Wish they make the IDE interface somewhat simpler by leveraging AI.

With sufficient AI integration, we won't even have to worry about the interface anymore! (I very much look forward to that day for Xcode.)

I just hate CNN subscribe screen. It completely locks my iPhone chrome browser. I have to kill the browser and reopen it to go back.

I recommend AdGuard. Blocks tons of annoyances like that

Ironically people who fall in not doing the thing category of this article are valued more than those who do the thing.

Sometimes that's because they're making it worthwhile, by connecting the thing with those who will benefit from it and explaining how to use it, which is as valuable as doing the thing.

I.e. by making sure that they're doing the right thing.


Are they "not doing the thing", or are they "doing the different thing"?

Selling the thing isn't doing the thing, but it pays more!

Life is tough like that


Let's all switch to finance.

What’s preventing AI from taking on the role of an architect?


Good taste. I just vibe coded some garbage in an hour. But it is so bad I can't see how to get to good code from here and so I'll spend the rest of the week doing it by hand.

now to be fair this is my first attepmt at vibe coding and so I might not know how to prompt the ai


Depends on the tool, but the first thing to do is to use a plan mode where the AI will ask you follow up question to precise the project. This gives a much, much better result than just have the AI start to work with a few lines of prompt.

That basically turns your bad prompt into a good prompt, then execute on it.


The challenge with AI doing architecture is assembling all the relevant stakeholder context, then having the wisdom to weigh it to produce an optimal solution. The context issue is solvable, but the wisdom part is complex and nuanced, it requires a deep understanding of power structures and organizational dynamics, as well as some understanding of where the problem domain is evolving over time.


Nothing. Most software "architecture" is simply repeating the same patterns, just like writing code, just at a slightly higher level of abstraction. There's a slight moat if you are good at the business domain, and can serve as a bridge, but honestly, AI is getting pretty good at that as well.


I wonder. I follow @DamiLeeArch on YouTube. She talks about architecture in the built environment. Ostensibly, built for Humans. At least for now.


Or a CEO?


honestly, I hired an AI to be my CEO and Sales/Marketing manager. It's not to bad.


> trends will shift toward few-use throwaway software

software has worked this way since the rise of the internet and SaaS. consumers rarely need to install anything locally other than a browser.


Exactly! It’s like I saw you selling pre-cut fruit for $7 so I decided to cut my own fruit every week.


I think the difference is I was buying pre-cut fruit for $7 every week so I spent two days and now my fruit magically cuts itself forever.

He turned an ongoing expense into a one time expense. And bonus he likely had fun doing the labor.


It's more like he was renting a knife to cut fruit for some reason and now, and instead of just buying a knife, he built one from scratch.

(1) Let's hope he doesn't cut himself if the knife breaks apart while in use.

(2) Why is it so hard to just buy knives these days? Why does every knife maker suddenly feel entitled to charge rent?

I'm all for DIY instead of hiring others, but the insanity here is the rent vs. buy thing going on in the industry.


In some cases, that’s true, but sometimes you need to update cutting rules because of law changes, or you saw different way of cutting for example. There are cases where this is not one time investment. What I agree with that cutting-it-yourself became significantly cheaper


> they just announced ads

wondering how is it going to work when they "search the web" to get the information, are they essentially going to take ad revenue away from the source website?


It really depends on what 'XYZ' is and how many hoops you need to jump through to get to the answer. ChatGPT gets information from various places and gives you the answer as well as the explanation at each step. Without tools like ChatGPT its definitely not negligible in a lot of cases.


I bet you haven't seriously communicated with others in a language that is not native to you. You'll probably end up doing similar things if you have to.


I am doing that right now.


might work for internal applications where you may not care about UI/UX much. But for client facing applications you want to be little more careful.


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