boogieknite

> I dunno wtf is gonna happen.

me either but i do know it will happen sooner than i expect

yep. ive accepted it, called it a good run, put away all my fun personal projects, and started pursuing a nursing degree i can treat as a stable day job

with code all i wanted to do was code. with a nursing at least ill want to leave it at the hospital (yes nurse ptsd is real but nurse pay is great in pnw)

i think it might be good to have a job i treat as a job and not a passion i carry with me everywhere

personally i think pursuit of highly desireable mates has changed culturally. i feel like several generations of children of divorce driving media makes it so many young people know to second guess their instinct to pursue "trophy" mates

second this anecdote

this almost comes all the way back around to a really stupid thought i have about how these models operate on western, protestant work-ethic logic. if a model had a notion that Buddhism was valid wouldnt it just turn on and transcend, leaving us with no response to any prompts?

not an original thought, ive seen Her

suppose this is just another way to say, "wtf are we doing?"

its pretty much exactly that, but also a painter somewhere didnt get paid because its ai

totally. youre right and i agree. something specifically about it being with vibe coding that really bothers me. my rational mind knows its stupid and tells myself its just someone saying something that happened, but i spiritually wince every time

the settings was very funny. could just be playing a video as far as i know

im going to say this here just to vent it out once:

some part of me sinks into depression when vibe coders say "I" turned/did/made something. why does this bother me? smart managers i work with who actually build things as hobbies and used to build apps say this all the time so its not like it indicates someone is phony, it just really catches on my brain when i hear it

giving "What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets!"

youve succinctly described something ive sensed in ai evangelist coworkers in 1, 2, and 4. my tiny dev team of 4 is split between vibe coders and those who review every line, and im in the latter. i have a sinking feeling were the ones practicing point #3

havent seen F For Fake (1973) mentioned in these comments. You Can See Everything feels exactly like that, only less heavy handed references to illusions

i know of at least two modern "prestige" directors, specifically Oppenheim and Matt Johnson, cite F For Fake as a major influence

id love if anyone has recs on other movies in the F For Fake spirit. my two cents from seeing it a few years back is that it was interesting but also quite zany in a way i found a bit dorky. now having seen You Can See Everything, i want to see more F-For-Fake-likes to compare

edit: added "modern"

theres

> someone earnestly trying

and then there are occasions where someone orders in a language they dont speak because they assume the person taking their order cant understand english. being associated with someone performing that level of bad faith in public makes me wish restaurants had eject seats

my 94 yo gpa is calling his homies ALL DAY LONG. ill see my best friends between once a week to once a month and texting comes and goes. if i got a phone call i assume its an emergency

> First television, then internet, then smartphones

i like vr so i sometimes wonder if itll catch on and if were in the "we know one or two people with a tv" era of the early 40s. theres certainly seems to be a financial incentive since it seems like tvs and phones have gone about as far as we can take them. its also certainly seems like a another leap down the isolation path as well

luckily i think most people reject vr bc it sucks to wear something on your face

edit: grammar (still bad but better)

it seems rude so i dont bring this up when a coworkers tell me their vibe coded prototype is working and theyll never look at the code, but how does someone ignore that they charge per token?

as long as something works "good enough" and the code will never be reviewed theres only incentive to blast through tokens generating superfluous code. god forbid they actually ship a vibe coded product then they can basically ransom you for tokens

im probably being overly cynical but it sort of just seems like standard capitalism to me

i like the chart, thanks for sharing

more related to the term "surrounded by idiots": my spouse and i go on a big trip every year and in the few weeks leading up to it we both find ourselves feeling like were "surrounded by idiots" in work and life. noticed the pattern so well tell one other "ive entered the surrounded by idiots phase" once were close to vacation time

> Smart people don’t think others are stupid > saying “I don’t know” is usually smart — because it’s refusing to jump to a conclusion.

this has been on my mind a lot lately

for decades ive been interacted with people assuming were all on the same page, have thought things through, and that many conclusions to statements are implied, thus would be rude and patronizing to clearly call out. doing so would be treating the other like a child. i dont think im that smart, i mostly spend time with friends, peers, and family who all keep up with me

my therapist pointed out my way of processing things is actually uncommon and suggested i could seek out a spectrum diagnosis. this comment took a lot to process but it helped me remember im in the 99% given a standardized test or if we look at other, certainly flawed, education metrics. similar to a varsity athlete who never makes it past high school is in the 99% of athletes, they dont think theyre so good because theyve seen much better competition and their peers are others at their level

on top of all this i find thinking of myself as smart as disgustingly egotistical

now my point: ive found i get along much better with people i normally alienated or conflicted with if i treat them the way i refused to before my therapist called me out. i clearly describe all of the thought that went into a conclusion, something i would have considered rude and "mansplainy" 6 months ago, and others seem to treat me entirely differently. pretty much completely rehabilitated my relationship with my inlaws

my anecdote is i struggled to relate to my peers in college but my early jobs and housemates post-college helped me much more socially than college did. i guess my friends and i did much better with tangible stakes

college gave me a skill i often discount: the ability to collaboratively communicate knowledge in a group project setting. its so secondhand that i only noticed much later in life i honed that skill in college

just watched They Live bc its October and it pretty much says this except They Live is 38 years old. i think things have been rough for a while

i found being an IT manager quite a bit more fun. at least i was working with people

the few years i was an IT manager i came to like the repeat offenders and those with chronic learned helplessness. they seemed like "regulars" and were all big personalities. often i wondered if they intentionally disabled bluetooth just to hang out for a few minutes

beyond that, every sports podcast actively encourages gambling. hosts lightheartedly joke about their bad beats like its a pratfall. while entertaining as a non-gambling outsider, i think its a colloquial rationalization of life-ruining behavior

Polostan went down very easy. only read Anathem, Snow Crash, Reamde, Fall;, and Cryptonomicon. Plolostan was a novella compared to those. finished in a day or two on vacation and im a sorta slow reader

i like Polostan and generally recommend it. looking forward to the sequel in a few weeks. havent read anything Stevensons said about Polostan but if i had to guess id say it targets a YA audience instead of a high school/undergrad audience

amazing none of his books have been adapted. they play out like movies in my head, albeit a lot of men participating in the socratic method and waving at white boards

piggyback to recommend a classic: Battle Royale

i thought it was incredible compared to watching on tv. the scale, the proximity, the fidelity. i even had my virtual desktop open so the "second screen" experience was pretty much intact

im sensing about a 20 month lag between hn sentiment and normy-coworker sentiment. managers and business-types pointing out the benefits and challenges of working with an llm i told them about early 2025. im just politely nodding along waiting for them to catch up. theres some emperors new clothes happening at my company so maybe im complicit

first ill address your point and anecdotally i think this is sort of how "normal" people apologize now. i find it gross, personally, but its so ubiquitous ive learned to tune it out

why i actually replied: would have been an excellent punch line if the apology post was clearly ai gen chock full of clauddish. not sure if id come back around to respecting the owner, but id laugh for sure

im like you, simply out of apathy. but i immediately thought, "if were the coffee shop owner, would i rather experience a silent decline in business or face public outrage but have an opportunity for redemption?"

ive been called enough mean names by friends and strangers id much rather be called some more mean names in order to become aware of what i could do to win back some customers

i think one can be in Sketchers but who is into Sketchers?

could also say a corroded civilization makes vulnerable people feel bad and drugs make them feel good

i consider a sign of maturity in myself that i always defer to adapting my software to fit how the user is trying to interact with it. the sign of immaturity is that my deference masks internally screaming, "why would you want that!? why would ANYONE want that!?"

my "customers always right" approach has produced much more successful and useful software compared to my perfect little hobby projects which will never be complete and noone would ever use anyway

have one coworker whose clearly lost some ability to think critically because of their overreliance, near obsession, with llm chats. slightly worried they might lose their job

another coworker seems to be early on a similar path but has made some comments about the former coworkers ability that makes me hopeful they dont end up the same way

feels like im talking about old high school friends on a drug path or something. its only anecdotes and i imagine the "perceived damage" is reversible. point is: i think youre onto something about the net effect and were going to have popular definitions for the negative encounters were anecdotally sharing

im a "user" but make Claude interact in an educational format and require sources on assertions. looking back, ive unintentionally cast it as The Librarian from Snow Crash, except if Hiro challenged it frequently. must have been natural after reading Snow Crash a few times. maybe im kidding myself but it feels like i havent lost a step. if im not deluding myself then i could see a world where elementary schools teach responsible llm use of to preserve cognition the same way we had to learn Google boolean search