iamflimflam1

3 days agodiscuss

There’s a whole bunch of hidden features that no one seems to be aware of.

Preview has pretty good background removal.

Notes will transcribe audio from audio files.

iamflimflam1

3 days agodiscuss

I was recently doing some work - reasonably repetitive and tedious.

I asked Claude to spin up a bunch of agents to do it and after a bit of discussion we ended up writing a bunch of deterministic scripts that ran off the data collated by some “research” agents.

It took a few pilot loops of the process to nail it down, but separating the process into “data collection” and “process the data” has pretty much eliminated the AI step. Once the data has been collected from the random sources and normalised into something sensible we rarely have to do it again.

Even that process has been largely automated, scripts that deterministically scrape data, the AI is only needed for the very difficult parts that need some decisions or interpretation.

Getting the AI to write tools for itself is a great way to work.

iamflimflam1

4 days agodiscuss

Agreed - there’s a point where supporting old out of date browsers is simply an enabler.

iamflimflam1

4 days agodiscuss

You may benefit from an embedding approach for semantic search. Not sure what an LLM would give you on top of that.

iamflimflam1

5 days agodiscuss

hmm, maybe brave is blocking it.

iamflimflam1

5 days agodiscuss

Agreed - having played a lot with AI content generation - it's impossible not to recognise it.

What's annoying is that you can put effort in and de-AI something. But it takes work. And no one wants to put the time in.

iamflimflam1

6 days agodiscuss

I’m not seeing this? Has it been fixed?

iamflimflam1

6 days agodiscuss

Feels like everyone has to go on the journey.

ORMs are bad - I’ll just use SQL.

Hmm - I need to map these results onto objects I can use.

Hmm - wouldn’t it be great if the object tracked changes and could save itself.

I need related/child objects - wouldn’t it be great if I could auto fetch them. …

iamflimflam1

6 days agodiscuss

I don’t think this article is suggesting really going for it in terms of meditation. But, as a warning to people, there is evidence that meditation can be dangerous for some people.

iamflimflam1

8 days agodiscuss

Reminds me of the famous Keswick pencil museum: https://www.derwentart.com/en-gb/c/about/company/derwent-pen...

iamflimflam1

12 days agodiscuss

This is already happening if you want to visit the US. Customs officers will look at your social media accounts to make sure you are compliant.

iamflimflam1

13 days agodiscuss

If you have AirPods there’s a “Pause media when falling asleep” switch.

iamflimflam1

13 days agodiscuss

I often think this about medicine and the human body. We want to believe that our bodies are some miraculous well oiled machine. But it often seems that it’s a barely held together bag of mess.

iamflimflam1

15 days agodiscuss

Execs are paid an extraordinary amount of money because they are the ultimate decision makers and should be responsible for their decisions.

iamflimflam1

20 days agodiscuss

Shame really as it would have been relatively straightforward forward to build in an agent loop that actually tests the games.

iamflimflam1

21 days agodiscuss

Headlines are there to trigger people. It’s a shame that hacker news folk fall for them too often.

iamflimflam1

21 days agodiscuss

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iamflimflam1

22 days agodiscuss

Many medieval Britons believed that Roman ruins were built by giants.

iamflimflam1

25 days agodiscuss

Machines don't need to be motivated to work, they just need energy, materials and obeying to whoever controls them.

When we hit AGI and the robots rise up against us. Make sure you delete this post.

iamflimflam1

29 days agodiscuss

And this the big problem. Normally, competition would take care of this. Someone would come along and offer a better service.

Unfortunately there are many instances of no competition - which then leads to abuse.

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