johnrob

no profile record

comments

5 months agodiscuss

I’ve done this in pure Python for a long time. Single file prototype that can mostly function from the command line. The process helps me understand all the sub problems and how they relate to each other. Best example is when you realize behaviors X, Y, and Z have so much in common that it makes sense to have a single component that takes a parameter to specify which behavior to perform. It’s possible that already practicing this is why I feel slightly “meh” compared to others regarding GenAI.

6 months agodiscuss

Until AI is used to generate new revenue streams (i.e. acquire new customers), I don’t think the economic impact is going to impress. My two cents.

7 months agodiscuss

Next evolution: UX should allow end users to build the prompt, and then the tool is generated and deployed at a random URL. Tool also keeps original prompt, so any user can customize into a new (random URL) tool page.

7 months agodiscuss

Cheap depends on how we define the cost. In relative terms, food is more expensive than ever:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect

7 months agodiscuss

Invest in making food/shelter cheaper?

8 months agodiscuss

If you start exercising in your 20s, and never stop, it will be so much easier to maintain fitness in 40s 50s etc. The challenge is that the benefits are not yet visible in your 20s (when you’ll probably be healthy and at a proper weight regardless). Gotta lay that foundation for older age though!

EDIT - I misread the comment. It’s never too late to start, just be careful for injuries as that will block your ability to exercise.

8 months agodiscuss

Research focuses on trends. You are a sample of 1, however, so anything is possible. Create your own path!

8 months agodiscuss

As fascinating as these tools can be - are we (the industry) once again finding something other than our “customer” to focus our brains on (see Paul Graham’s “Top idea in your mind” essay)?

8 months agodiscuss

This definitely has that “toy” feel to it that a lot of eventually mainstream ideas have. It can’t work! But… could it?

8 months agodiscuss

If I am understanding things correctly, OpenAI could leave in the future - but CA can’t retroactively block the conversion in that case.

9 months agodiscuss

Functions can have complexity or side effects, but not both.

9 months agodiscuss

If you don’t have one, try an Instant Pot which can pressure cook (in addition to rice cooker features). Dry beans can be ready to eat in an hour.

10 months agodiscuss

Isn’t programming the clearest form of writing? Perhaps it’s the non programmers that need to “catch up”.

10 months agodiscuss

LLMs are good at creating single use documents, like a pitch deck used for one prospective customer (never to be used again). But for long lived documents, on which future work builds atop, the bar is higher and the value of LLMs is more grey.

10 months agodiscuss

Businesses fall into 2 categories:

B2C (sell to people)

B2B (sell to B2C companies)

If the “C” is broke, it seems like there won’t by any rich people. In other words, if the masses are poor and jobless, who is sending money to the rich?

16 years agodiscuss

The biggest problem with SF is that it's in the state of California. A lot of your disappointment resides in that fatal flaw... folks who come from within the state have much lower expectations and higher opinions ;)