Happy Earth day! Although I'm having a somewhat sad earth day since I've been scattering wildflower seeds and two days ago the city came though and mowed them all down. So it's less happy than usual, now the flowers are all dead.
Don't people just tell you if something is made by AI? It doesn't seem like something to hide. Look, I made something cool using an AI tool. That's great to hear, the thing I'm interested in is the Something Cool, but I do also want to know how, so I can learn how to build Something Cool myself.
I love concord grapes so much. Im eagerly awaiting their annual return to the farmers market (early September). I love them so much the vendors know to get me and tell me when they are here. I don't understand why the demand for them is small.
I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.
Well, it was exciting I guess. I even knew someone who worked for pets.com!
On the other hand, I worked for a startup selling product information management software to large retailers, and was about as non dot-com as you could get. When the bubble burst, all the funding disappeared for all tech companies, not just the dot-com ones, so we were also all out of a job. Which was not fun.
It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need.
All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...
I think the sad part was the people entering the IT workforce for only money. Don't get me wrong, I understand why and not gatekeeping. But it was the first time I know that people with computer skills were highly in demand, so anyone who had turned on a computer was able to get a job even if they knew nothing of how a computer actually worked, or networking.
So I am taking a different approach than instead of just focusing on software. I have Gemini app, Claude app, Grok app and then chatgpt still using web interface. And periodically I ask them questions about what I can do to improve the wellbeing of humans. I think trying to use them for work is okay, but it's not the best way to use these tools, we can use them to broaden our thinking and find challenges we never considered before.
This is my take too. When we were imagining AI what were the use cases we had in mind back then? They are these grand visions of AI will take care of major problems. We should be pushing for responsible AI deployment, starting on low risk areas and moving up to more serious uses once we know the tools work for less catastrophic situations.
Going after a problem almost everyone will have at some point, with a safe and secure approach. It seems like a great way to use AI, it boosts your ability to walk away from your laptop and spend time outdoors, as long as you have your phone with you it's possible to keep your long running jobs supervised and moving forward.
How many tokens did it take to develop this project? Do you know what models you used? It feels like a Claude assisted project, but do you have to keep maintaining it with AI or is it a question of architecture skill that keeps it safe and reliable now?
I would say this reading took a sharp turn from what I expected on the title, but it does make sense. There is plenty of hopeful potential in this type of public learning. The author starts off with wild intentions and eventually practically works out a solution, even though you can tell it was not quite what was envisioned.
That happens to me too, I start doing something and a result isn't the end of the learning, but a chance to repeat the experience.
This is an interesting use case with Claude. It sounds like you took away some tedious work with the checking of waveforms, and you are able to speed up your design loop because of it.
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