Cool! I bought one a few months ago as soon as I spotted it at a Uniqlo store, and later ordered a larger size online—I really love wearing them. But it never occurred to me to look into the story behind them.
When I was learning the Japanese kana (hiragana and katakana), I downloaded seven or eight different apps from the App Store, and finally chose one called MARU. It's a product by an independent developer, and it's very simple and efficient. Even for a mature topic like kana, different apps have different perspectives and approaches to solving the problem. I think this is still something that AI can't replace: good product taste and aesthetics, and solutions to problems in a specific field. However, I think another problem might arise: if a product is very good, someone might easily use AI to create a similar product with a different interface and sell it at a lower price, leading to intense competition. How should developers deal with this?
Even for Chinese people, Journey to the West is a somewhat difficult text because it belongs to classical literature. Using some children's books published in recent years, and progressing gradually, might be a better approach?
I think the biggest impact will be on SaaS products from startups and side projects. People will think, "I can build something myself with the help of AI, so why should I pay to try your unfinished product?" The barrier to entry has become higher, requiring a more complete product.
I started blog simply to have a place to express myself; my only reader is probably myself.
I write whatever comes to mind, organize my travel photos, record my daily step count, and manage my bookmarks.
if you don't expect anyone to read it from the start, then you won't be disappointed, and you won't have to doubt whether what you've written is meaningful or mature enough, or whether it's embarrassing to show your imperfect self.
It won't be, because I assume from the beginning that no one will read it. But I still want to write, because as a freelancer who works from home all year round, I say a few words a day. I need a place to express myself, a channel for my emotions.
I think many hackers on HN are overly naive, holding a dreamlike view of authoritarian states because they're so far away from them. Therefore, articles like these appear on the front page regularly.
But for people who have lived here their entire lives, it's a different story. There's a joke that goes, "I can donate 1 million yuan because I don't have it, but I can't donate a cow because I actually do have it."
I'm a Chinese who has lived in China my entire life and am almost 40. Personally, I think the core point of this article is wrong. China has never been run by engineers, but by officials. In ancient times, it was scholars, or literati, while craftsmen were considered lowly. Even in modern times, do officials or engineers have the final say in factories? If it were the latter, there wouldn't be so many state-owned enterprise closures and layoffs. Just go out and survey 100 people on the street and ask them who they think is running the country.