I just read news from my local news and thats it. I block all news on social media. It’s pretty good. News is boring again and it feels like I am more informed of what’s going on around me.

Social media basically only surfaces the most extreme news and usually biases towards negative news.

No one is gonna click/upvote an article on burger King revamping their food.

I tried doing that to a moth and accidentally threw it against the wall. Not sure if i killed it but I didnt see it afterwards :(

My favorite three movies are Toy Story 3 (for nostalgia reasons), Spirited away and City of god.

I’m willing to concede that Toy Story 3 isn’t that good but the other 2 are amazing movies IMO.

I’m not usually an apple fanboy, but it’s hard to hate on the M1 MBP. I have one used (around $800) and it’s still insane after all these years. Just a great laptop even today. Really hard to find anything better at that price.

In this case though, I don’t think it’s “shitty and overpriced” given the pricepoint. Of course that’s subjective, I’m speaking more from an average person’s viewpoint. I know people who started with the A1 and it was fine. The company is just garbage.

Maybe but the process is really annoying. I have to backup my 4tb library, make the switch, if it doesnt work I have to revert.

I don’t have a spare 6tb drive either so i would need to buy one.

Besides, i already have a plex lifetime membership so most of the new changes do not affect me.

I could just risk it and do the upgrade raw, but I would be pretty upset if I lost my data due to the switch.

Been working in a little app in my spare time for the last 3 years. Hope it goes well.

I don’t have time.

And then you spend 4 hours building from source /s

Because the apps are better 😉

Code reviews are not only still a thing in the age of AI but they are even more important now because you have to catch the AI on their lies and BS and that can sometimes be hard.

Have to do a release of Summit. And a lot of cleaning around the house.

Another game thats similar to firewatch imo is “What remains of Edith Finch”

Omg. I swear they rename/move a bunch of things every update so every guide is just a little bit out of date.

FreeCAD has possibly the worst UI I have ever used combined with some of the worst UX of any software. But it has every feature I need, it’s free and it works (mostly).

The problem I find is it can take a year or longer before you learn what is idiomatic and what isn’t and it’s not always obvious. You can ask colleges of course but it can slow down development drastically if you need to ask often. Most times, you don’t have the luxury of practicing the language for a year before you ship code so you can use AI to get a general sense of what is best practice in that language. Worst case if AI gets it wrong, it will get caught in review.

As for understanding code bases, I’m working in code bases with millions of lines of code. Before AI I would usually ask someone to point me in the general vicinity or spend 30 minutes trying to find the right ballpark to look at for a particular thing. With AI, it can usually find it in 5 minutes or less. I still learn where the code lives if I need to reference it again in the future so I don’t really see much of a downside here other than that I get to save a chunk of time from having to pore through hundreds of source files.

Yep

I’m still writing 90% of my code by hand at work. I think if you have total or close to total mastery in your domain, you should probably work faster than AI.

It takes a while for AI to generate code (Opus is pretty slow) and then you have to go review it and do rounds and rounds of fixes. It might be faster to use AI if there were unknowns or if you werent quite sure how to write the code. Otherwise I just find it faster to write it myself.

That being said I do use AI under some soecific circumstances:

1. im working in a code base or area of code im unfamiliar with
2. Im working in a language in unfamiliar with
3. prototyping ideas
4. generating boilerplate heavy code

For 1. And 2. I dont usually have ai write code for me. I would just ask it questions like “how do I write X in an idiomatic way in language Y”.

For 3, I have it generate code that I then toss and rewrite if the prototype works.

For 4, this is rare in a good code base. Most of the boiler plate heavy code at work is in unit tests.

Just restart the app every day /s