There’s only so much land and only so much food we need to eat. The bounds on what software we need are much wider. But certainly there is a limit there as well.
This isn't that impressive when there are mountains of training data dealing with exactly this... how about something truly unique and not something already available to the masses in hundreds of different forms?
Like cool, you killed boiled a few gallons of the ocean but are you really impressed that you made a basic music app that is extremely limited?
So we’re now in a world where this isn’t impressive anymore? How quickly expectations change. Having started with basic and then 6502 assembly over 40 years ago, this still feels like science fiction to me.
But most enterprise software does not need to be innovative, its needs to be customizable enough that enterprises can differentiate their business. This makes existing software ideas so much more configurable. No more need for software to provide everything and the kitchen sink, but exactly that what you as a customer want.
Like in my example, I don’t know of any software that has exactly this feature set. Do you?
I worked for Percy for 4 years. We were “stuck” with imagemagik to do diffing (I’m sure they still might). I was able to build my own differ with Claude/LLM help.
I looked at the source. It seems most of the code is not included in the GitHub repo, which itself contains a bit of JS glue. The .tgz uploaded to npm has various prebuilt binaries. Can I take a look at the rust code?
I'm not trying to imply LLMs aren't useful. I just want more info from GP so that I can evaluate their claims.
I’ve seen first hand people talk big about how they used LLMs on a project and it’s clear they’ve only done the first 80%. Yeah they’re good tools. But they also enable laziness.
I have built many projects in hours that we can say would have reasonably taken me a month, to research the technology I did not know beforehand. 30 minutes is often enough to build a first version of the project. For example an audio book listener app, winter swimming iPhone/iWatch app combination, and markdown editor for OS X in Swift.
I have also added complex features in 30 minutes to existing projects, but I don't remember any that themselves would have taken me months though.
There's also great (by American standards) public transit into/through the city. Caltrain and BART can get you into SF quickly from quite a large area nearby.
"by American standards" is doing a lot of lifting. On a scale of 1 to 10 I'd give SF about a 4 compared to cities like Tokyo, Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam, Seoul, Singapore, ...
I don’t understand the boosters saying BART and Caltrain are good systems. When I lived there, and part of the reason I left, those systems were frequently delayed, full of drug addicts, and they lacked comprehensive service throughout SF, requiring dependence on Muni, which is worse than the other 2. I don’t think those who say this is a great system have been exposed to how other places in the world handle these things.
1. I live and work around BART stations so it works well for me
2. I just ignore the drug addicts
3. The delays are there but it all works well enough to be very useful
The last time was in 2018. I caught a Muni bus, the drive drove past someone at a stop who was in a wheelchair and was signalling to be picked up, another passenger challenged the driver, and the driver shouted something like "I don't want no cripple pee pee-ing on my bus"
They won't, I genuinely believe the vast majority of Americans will call for war, invasion, etc if the price of their "treats" (TVs, cars, gas, ...) gets too out of reach.
Consumer prices are the only category that hasn't gone up in price in the last couple of decades. It's basically the only little "treat" you can look forward to while toiling away for peanuts
I just cannot stomach the number of people who apparently value nothing except displays of performative cruelty and childish tantrums.
There's been a significant shift of an "ow-I-touched-the-stove" variety towards sanity among independents, but it's a Problem that some significant double-digit percentage of the nation just plain likes this violent self-destructive flailing, and will reward anything as long as it makes them feel like somebody is getting hurt.
I think art is a lot like family - you don’t get to pick which works really resonated with you and influenced you, even if the artist turns out to be a “bad person.”
And back in the day, Adams was a pretty crunchy California guy. Remember the Dilburrito?
This seems crazy to me as a self-admitted addict of “git commit --amend --no-edit && git push --force-with-lease”.
I don’t think the tool is judgmental. It’s finicky. It requires more from its user than most tools do. Including bending over to make your workflow compliant with its needs.
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