@chadkoh Oh, it was just one of those LLM-promoting programmers saying that it massively increased their productivity at specific kinds of coding as a defence when people are pointing out the harms. Later, when asked how much time it saved them per day, it turned out to be about half-an-hour at best. Turns out they spent less than an hour a day on that kind of boilerplate coding.

@anniegreens Thankfully the redwings and blackbirds that are my main regulars don't really mind me being in the kitchen as long as I'm not too close.

@odd I think that would be the flotmeisa in Icelandic? (Bird names are so fun and weird.)

Thankfully, in this instance, the bird returned as soon as I left the kitchen. 🙂

@topgold 😄

@MitchW Oh, absolutely 🙂

@artkavanagh Yeah, I’m not on substack so I have to rely on reports like these about what’s happening there and, in this case it looks like it might be quite inaccurate.

@tracydurnell I was given permission to apply some scritches 🙂

@fgtech Yeah. The sad thing is that, at its peak, the mac app scene was magical. That period when Mac OS X had matured, the hardware was coming together, and the Mac indie software scene was in full swing was a second renaissance for the mac. And I think at this point we aren't going to be lucky enough to get a third.

@fgtech It is.

@torb yeah definitely weird.

@lwdupont You need to have multiple different keyboard languages enabled and a hardware keyboard connected, which isn’t an uncommon scenario when writing on an iPad.

@petebrown I mean, it’s one dude who has shipped five apps and keeps adding features such as transcripts and e2e encrypted notes. I don’t think slowing down the feature churn to test and fix longstanding UI and editing widget bugs is too much of an ask

@torb Never too late to start!

@petebrown Right!

@Denny Thanks!

@darby3 Techcrunch has the full memo

techcrunch.com/2024/02/1...

The only concrete change they’ve announced is bringing their Pocket, content, and AI teams into the Firefox Organisation. It’s light on actual strategy or plan

@torb Yeah. They’ve been directionless for a while now.

@annahavron 🙂

@paulcraig901 Thanks!

@torb Yeahk, if you’re deeply involved in tech circles at the moment, the AI Bubble is going to be overwhelming. And if you have VC funding it’s probably going to be impossible.

@torb Yeah, same. There’s also no way I’ll ever invest in their VR platform as a user the same way I have in iPhones and iPads if this is going to be their attitude towards developers.

@pimoore Thanks!

@torb Yeah. Absolutely true.

@faraixyz No, if I’ve run into that I’ve blanked it out of memory 🙂

And, yeah, it seems like we have a combination of old SEO practices spreading, new LLM tactics mass-producing gunk, and Google’s lay-offs leaving them less well-equipped to deal.

@paulcraig901 I know that. I spent a few years working in publishing. The distinction in the post between digital and PoD is deliberate. IME the major PoD services have higher variability than digital print runs.