- SpeakerBlast: Invited/demoed to Google ATAP in 2013 to discuss inclusion into the Moto X. Another HN(er) met them too ugh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
- Leech: In 2015 pitched a phone case that shares battery power (a feature Samsung added in 2019) on the reality show, America's Greatest Maker to Trump's buddy Mark Burnett & Intel.
- Invented the first Social Alarm Clock (@sleepfm). Justin Bieber later created a social alarm clock & tons of developers too.
The new Siri isnt that exciting at least on my iPhone 15 Pro Max. I know it's beta but it's sluggish and often says try again. I watched many videos on Youtube saying its amazing but maybe not so much on older phones? Also, I need a Siri I can talk in an unfettered manner from my lock screen while Im driving without having to unlock the screen. Probably a big ask for Siri to know my voice via voice fingerprint allowing unfettered access from my lock screen.
Others running the beta now on newer iPhones and enjoying it more so?
For writing GPT which i was subscribed to Fall 2024 to March 2026 (laid off) is superior to Gemini. Been using Gemini since March mostly and they offered a $10 a month plan so i took it. Though today realizing GPT is superior to help me write I am back to being a paying customer. Im in full swing mode to get back into the job market (get the heck away from UI/UX which is now a stupid career in terms of number of jobs out there and in the future there will continue to be less) pivoting into product management (can vibe code anything now) and or customer relations. Hopefully GPT helps me with this pivot and Im again gainfully employed!
sure but it would be nice if AI paid it's fair share in many different ways for humans keeping it relevant. Open AI wants to provide all Americans stock options, which is one way but the more the merrier.
or use Cloudflare's "Pay Per Use," tech so real humans and or more so AI sucking up your content for free is forced to pay you something to gain access.
Tech WAS such a great career now it's total crap! The hey day of tech jobs when you received tons of prospective jobs offers via Linkedin feels like that's drying up (tho it could be my age which is not listed anywhere on Linkedin). From 2012 up until Spring 2025 each month I'd receive 3 to 6 recruiters offering a new UX Research, Design and or Front End Development job. Not anymore and now these jobs you are now competing with 100s to 1000s for just one job and if you are lucky enough to get an interview you have to go through 5 to 12 interviews LOL. Im laughing even more as i vibe code a project in which my previous personal projects i hired some help like a back-end developer or two. Nope I can do it all myself and save money like so many businesses are and will continue to.
Overall I can't imagine the killing all this head count cause blossomed too much and now AI definitely reducing head count futher is a good thing for an economy. An economy where these jobs let you buy nice single family homes in nice areas.
For me I havent left the job market but it's a huge joke now for techies and soon will be for a lot workers who use a computer to complete their work tasks. AI agents will be reducing all white collar jobs where only a few will be needed vs. 10 or 20 were needed before.
So this is my iCloud on the web for AI agents to pay me for access to my content (Cloudflare allows the bots in upon paying) :-)
Cloudflare offers this now (their Pay to Crawl service) but its not geared towards every human getting paid for their content. As of today Facebook and other social media platforms profit from our content....not us!
Totally agree with Tidal (music SPAM needs to go away) and this coming from a huge lover of AI music. So much so, I only listen to my own AI music now and I'm not the only one per this Verge article https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/937059/n...
As a lifelong songwriter, using AI to produce my own melodies and lyrics lets me listen to the diary of my own life, which allows me to reminsce and realize my songs are the best songs ever for JUST me :). I dont subject others to them ... much.
Went to a new dentist recently and his staff took x-rays of my teeth. I was then waiting for him to come speak with me about what the x-rays show him yet i just took a pic and uploaded it to Gemini. 9 months back my previous dentist said i should have a filling or potentially a crown was needed. I told Gemini this and that ive only about 3 fleeting pain issues in that area. With the x-ray and that info Gemini told me the exact same thing the dentist later came in and told me. If pain comes back and for long periods of time then there's an issue as the x-rays look fine.
Overall i see a great opportunity for x-ray techs (radiographers even when Jensen from NVidia says the first field he recommends not getting into - Radiology which is the step above) to open their own businesses for people who want to use AI for self care and help. Have one doctor or dentist on staff to use as needed.
sure im sharing a somewhat unique/new idea so its going to be mocked. Yet AI paying us for our content to keep it relevant after it kills so many jobs is something Open AI and ANthropic are pushing via free stock options to all Americans.
Yet what about all other humans where's is their system and will those stock options provide enough pay to keep this economic system we have going? If not then my concept of using AI against itself so all humans get their fair share for feeding AI content could be an option.
Either way AI needs to pay us it's fair share as without humanity past content it wouldnt exist and without it's future content it's irrelevant.
lol the end is not near and what im talking about is a harder edge argument then AI companies talking to the govt about giving us ..Americans at least stock in their AI companies.... https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98r8r7dz5no
Tho do you trust those companies full stop and you are saying all those ppl fighting against data centers now are crazy?
ALL PROGRAMMERS and VIBE CODERS use AI against itself ... vibe code systems that forces AI to pay all of humans for our content! Without our content AI is irrelevant! Why are we giving our content/souls to it freely now so it thrives and we do not??
AI/AR Glasses that show you every piece of knowledge about whatever your looking at might not help, especially if the AI is wrong. Otherwise everyones a know it all?
- SpeakerBlast: Invited/demoed to Google ATAP in 2013 to discuss inclusion into the Moto X. Another HN(er) met them too ugh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929
- Leech: In 2015 pitched a phone case that shares battery power (a feature Samsung added in 2019) on the reality show, America's Greatest Maker to Trump's buddy Mark Burnett & Intel.
- Invented the first Social Alarm Clock (@sleepfm). Justin Bieber later created a social alarm clock & tons of developers too.
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