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> Nike used to be very "male coded" e.g. "Be like Mike"
There are very-few male-coded places left. I think any Mall is like 80% for women and 20% food court. Beside that, there are jewelry stores, nail salons, spas, hair salons. Drive around the 'burbs and the only male-coded place is probably hardware stores and Pizza Hut
This is sort of adjacent to your request, but take a look at
https://morpheem.org/ , I found it very useful and impressive, also its mostly free.
>My children hate losing, and these games have n−1 losers for every n players.
I just stumbled across an answer to this; I bought a foosball table -- since each side has 4 knobs -- you can do 2 v. 1 -- put the children on a team against you. Then I started looking around for other 2 v 1 games -- tennis is one --
but I'm interested in boardgames/videogames that are 2 v 1 - please link if you know any
>>There are also literally zero decisions for the players to make
If OP is reading this, 'Sorry' is a fast-paced game with surprising amount of strategic depth.
On the one hand, replacing software devs with AI is enormously profitable, on the other hand bad-actors can distill these models with industrial attacks and undercut pricing or release an open model... how does it all play out ? idk.
The current LLMs can show their work, if you don't understand it, ask to have it explained it in a different way -- idk how you can improve on that experience.
They already have space-based compute in terms of Starlink and Starshield. Is it much more difficult than that ?
We need your salary to buy the machines that will do your job. :|
You spin up agents and want them to paid without opening a bank account... or spin-up hundreds of agents... or your country isn't very well integrated with western banking rails. I think there is more to consider.
An emerging use-case is a bank account for AI agents. I read that Coinbase 'Base' Ethereum layer2 is popular for AI banking.
The unit of work is now a 'prompt'. Imagine recreating different classes of software... there is correlation between complexity (ie # of prompts) and value. Make an app so complex, no one has tried it.
"learn to code" is probably over...
Remember the mean-spirited viral meme of 'learn to code' aimed at BuzzFeed journos in 2019? ... not aging well.
I replit'd a travel-site since yesterday: ~8-ish hours: front-end, back-end, auth, mapping, geo-coding, points-of-interest, planning, image carossels, weather-integration (not sure if the weather thing is working), routing.
None of it by hand, no SQL, no Linux provisioning, no learning Map api calls, no typescript, no javascript / webpack bundling, no trying to figure out why i can't get things to vertically center, no css.
There will be like ~1000x more code w/ 1/100x wages.
There's probably space for people with CS PhDs -- but that's not exactly the same as 'learn to code'
Posted by
sfmz on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:58PM
from the self-post dept.
Americans get health insurance through work - if many get fired b/c AI - health insurance profit decline would possibly be an interesting signal for true unemployment metrics.I am looking for/requesting novel signals after seeing a16z basically call ai-job loss doomerism
Inference cost is dropping 30x this year (see GTC keynote)
So imo this is a meaningless blip.
Meta/Google/Anthropic report 75%+ of coding is now AI. For every engineer orchestrating AIs -- X will be let go -- but at what ratio 3:1? 5:1? 10:1? Seems like its at least 3.
Chain a few tools together to make demos, give them away, charge for upkeep.
eg. yt: Nano-Banana + Kling + Claude Code = scrolling-exploded-headphones demo in a few minutes.
https://youtu.be/mhIAd5lVMag?t=133
If you take a year off to orchestrate some complex-workflows with agents... I expect you'll still be hire-able, but idk.
I've never seen a proper defense of XRP, but its been a top 5 coin for like a decade...
In the battle of capital vs labor, the capital wins when the laborers are not needed.
You probably don't need very much news at all. I like learning interesting second-order effects of current events, but they aren't necessary for my life. Here's a few I found interesting lately:
Gen-Z doesn't go to parties anymore because they are on screens all day and/or have social anxiety
Photoshop tutorial business is cratering because people aren't interested in learning how to manipulate photos when they can just create one via text
Japanese guy called do-nothing-guy gets paid to go to restaurants with pretty women in Japan because apparently they can't get a date or are too shy or something terrible is happening with the social fabric in Japan idk what
Its interesting to think about automating the news, you'd need a news feed from every courthouse, twitter feed, sports arena, press release -- run them through various processes, identify trendlines, etc. no small task
AI, robotics, drones, self-driving: all poised to take a lot of jobs.
Here's my list of things making it worse: cities designed for cars, no third spaces, poorly designed public space, hostile architecture, no social safety net, replacing social relationships with parasocial relationships, filling every moment of idle time with glacing at your phone, smaller families/smaller extended families, low access to nature, needing a second job (or low free time), too much screentime.
The promise of replacing labor costs with bots is too tempting for Wall Street. The money will keep on rolling in.
The major LLMs should be able to handle that.
Dressing up is a lot more rewarding if you are not obese like 42% of the USA. I think the French still dress nicely is that true?
"The Limiting Factor" had an interesting take: Elon Musk's ability to deploy resources gives Grok a competitive advantage. YT vid goes over the challenges in getting Colossus up (200k GPU) and their deployment of Colossus 2, a 3-gigawatt facility with one million GPUs.
The Limiting Factor: xAI's Plans to Crush OpenAI, Meta, and Google in the AI Race (32m) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoaMveDtCxI
"Wars are won with logisitics" tweet by Elon Musk