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You claim to disagreeing with OP but you seem to be describing basically the same core loop of planning and execution.

Doing OODA faster has always been the key thing to creating high quality outcomes.


No, OP literally claims "you can't spec out something you have no clue how to build"; I claim that on the contrary, you absolutely can - you don't need to know "how to build" but you need to clarify what you want to build. You can't ask AI to build something (and actually obtain a good "something") until you can say exactly what the said "something" is.

You iterate, yes - sometimes because the AI gets it wrong; and sometimes because you got it wrong (or didn't say exactly what you wanted, and AI assumed you wanted something else). But the less specific and clear you are in your requirements, the less likely it is you'll actually get what you want. With you not being specific in the requirements, it only really works if you want something that lots of people are building/have built before, because that will allow the AI to make correct assumptions about what to build.


I don't understand quite how Anthropic have managed to get so much mind share for Claude Code given the UX is pretty bad compared to something like Cursor.

Da Vinci is maybe only the 5th most interesting thing about the Mona Lisa.

There is a tremendous amount of "art" that is produced for purely commercial reasons. It employs many thousands of people. These roles are definitely threatened by image generators.

Agree that if you are Artist this is not going to be a big concern to you.


Also, many (I would even venture to say most) of the great artists most people know of earned their bread with intermittent commercial contracts, even rote advertising commissions in the 19th/20th century.

Farming GDP has grown 2-3x since the 1900s. It's just everything else has grown even more. That doesn't make farming somehow irrelevant work. There's just more stuff to do now. This seems pretty consistent with OPs point.

If you liked this, you'll probably also like https://ytmnd.com/


Biggest surprise here is that this website is still around. I was browsing it 20 years ago


Newgrounds still exists.

Having to pass a vote before you were uploaded and available for real I think was a good way to do things. Like a shitty peer review but for coolness.


Shameless plug of the YTMND site I made more than a decade ago: https://fvcks.ytmnd.com/

Such a simpler time.


Cool stuff, but why is there an entire loading screen and intro animation, then a play button, when it could just link to a gif?

Made me lose interest in browsing real quick


It's to make sure the GIF is in sync with the audio. It was a bigger issue when connections were slower.


I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not.


2010 OG account. He's been holding in this opinion for over a decade, waiting for his moment.


Heh, my all time favorite: https://whatishoth.ytmnd.com


For me the process which works is the "make a mess, then clean it up" approach. Also known as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Diamond_(design_process...


Yeh, same. I also have a strong “do it now” attitude to try and reduce as much fluff as possible. I know a lot of people where they will add sending an email to the bottom of their very long todo list and it basically won’t get done. It takes two minutes, just DO IT when someone asks. In fact when someone asks me anything at work I drop everything, find the answer, and my next reply to them will be with the answer. I know context switching can be tough but other people are your portal to how your perceived in the outside world so they should be treated as priority. People appreciate this and you’ll be loved by your colleagues. Then you can go back to the optimisation rabbit hole you were half way down that probably wasn’t 100% asked for by the client anyway if you’re being honest.


My car can't login to my bank account.


Give it a few years. After all how will Tesla get that $99 every month for your self driving susbscription?


Your car and fellow road users' cars generally have your life, your passengers' lives, and other road users' lives in its hands while in use.


Well, I see how, especially for people who are close to death and want to provide for their loved ones, the answer to "Your money or your life" might lean in the other direction.


My car probably could be hacked to murder me in secret but frankly I'm not worth expending that kind of access on.

The threat model is really very different.


Why not just install it from Steam?


It is actually one of the most alive and welcoming spaces in London.


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