I bought a domain called youfriend.me about ten years ago with the exact same premise, tapping the phones together in real life. But I never developed it.
I'll bite. I've been writing music for decades but I can't sing. With ai I can write lyrics and generate ai vocals, then separate the stems and extract the vocals throwing away the rest.
Add the vocals to my daw and create the rest the way I want.
Saying its a great work of art is subjective, but for me I can make music I couldn't before now.
Parent suggests the perspective where using AI allows to free up the "brain juice", and utilize it elsewhere. What you describe is AI allowing you to mitigate some limitations that prevented you trying something. So not the same.
Sidebar: learn to sing. Singing well and “finding your voice” are in my mind equivalent. Every time I become a more confident person I get better at singing. Every time my singing gets better through practice I feel more confident. “Speak with your chest” didn’t make sense until a few years ago. Now it’s obvious to me when someone is incapable of it.
I find this interesting as someone who does primarily devops, my satisfaction has increased with ai. Since for me the code isn't the puzzle but an annoying inconvenience in the way of completing the entire system. For me QA is a big part of solving the puzzle.
DevOps is a huge part of my job as a systems engineer and I too have found increased satisfaction with AI.
I think the reason (for me, at least) is that my markers of success were always perched precariously atop a mountain of systems that I had varying levels of understanding of anyway. Seeing a pipeline "doing the thing" is satisfying regardless of how I sorted it out.
For some reference back in Ubuntu 6 days around 2005 I switched. It took me 2 weeks to get X Org to run with my nvidia card at the time. 2 weeks of messing with config files. I only persisted because I was so sick of windows.
Being a musical genius doesn't matter if you don't have a good way to market yourself.
That's why record companies traditionally did so well.
There are countless incredible works of art out there that almost nobody will ever see or hear. Most of it probably hasn't even been publicly shared.
I just watched a yt video of a guy who goes and looks for YouTube videos with zero views that are old. I thought that would make a great art project. I'm sure someone will eventually do it
Hey thats a great idea, we will take a look into exploring this export option. But how would it save time by being a Playwright script?
Right now since we have a custom sandbox to re-execute the code in, we are using our own syntax and exposed methods. So even now you can edit the generated script.
I'm skeptical - the apps I use either have a) enough lock-in that they don't have the institutional will to optimize or b) a lack of institutional resources to optimize.
Basically, the optimizing that can happen is that I ditch heavy tools in favour of lighter ones, and hopefully enough other people do the same to help lighter tools with finances/dev resources.
Yeah, I mean, if I look at the trashy apps I currently have running, they all do have deep lock-in that makes the reverse-engineered clones impractical or impossible: Teams, Discord, Slack, the Windows RDP app.
If I look at the Activity Manager in macOS, of apps that are less trashy but currently taking up a lot of memory, they mostly aren't apps that I'm willing/able to move away from to save on resource use: Firefox, Safari, 1Password. (For browsers, you can blame poorly optimized websites for a lot of it, but I just don't see anyone rushing to create lightweight clones of websites in order to save users' RAM.)
I said it for many years that OS developers need to focus on over optimisations. If it wasnt a chip sgortage it would be the ever slowing progress on chip scaling.
But software optimisation helps all hardware and that doesnt drive sales.
Linux however, they dont have to worry about that. Maybe it is finally the era of Haiku OS as the ghost of BeOS rises!
There is almost no way any hyper optimized OS could protect you from Windsurf re-layouting the whole UI 60 times per second because of badly implemented spinner, and taking 8 GB of RAM to show it.
I think RAM shortages would be the least of our problems…
Assuming China takes TSMC in one piece (unlikely without internal sabotage in the best case scenario), it would still probably take years before it produces another high end GPU or CPU.
We would probably be stuck with the existing inventory of equipment for a long time…
I am surprised we consider TSMC like a natural resource: isn't it really a combination of know-how and build-out according to that know-how? If smarts leave the country, perhaps this moves with them.
The risk with China taking over Taiwan is that they mostly expedite their own production research by a couple of years.
It kinda does resemble a natural resource though. The machines and technology in use at TSMC are so insanely complex, that there isn't a single person on earth who knows everything about how it works. TSMC functions only because of all of the pieces of the puzzle being together in the right place and arranged in just the right way. It's a very fragile balance that keeps it all running, and a major disruption could mean we get thrown back by a decade in chip-making technology.
What you say is absolutely true, and is a serious problem—but the way our system operates does not allow us to correct for it.
Anyone trying to spin up a competitor to TSMC would have to first overcome a significant financial hurdle: the capital investment to build all the industrial equipment needed for fabrication.
Then they'd have to convince institutions to choose them over TSMC when they're unproven, and likely objectively worse than TSMC, given that they would not have its decades of experience and process optimization.
This would be mitigated somewhat if our institutions had common-sense rules in place requiring multiple vendors for every part of their supply chain—note, not just "multiple bids, leading to picking a single vendor" but "multiple vendors actively supplying them at all times". But our system prioritizes efficiency over resiliency.
A wealthy nation-state with a sufficiently motivated voter base could certainly build up a meaningful competitor to TSMC over the course of, say, a decade or two (or three...). But it would require sustained investment at all levels—and not just investment in the simple financial sense; it requires people investing their time in education and research. Dedicating their lives to making the best chips in the world. And the only reason that would work is that it defies our system, and chooses to invest in plants that won't be finished for years, and then pay for chips that they know are inferior in quality, because they're our chips, and paying for them when they're lower quality is the only way to get them to be the best chips in the world.
> A wealthy nation-state with a sufficiently motivated voter base could certainly build up a meaningful competitor to TSMC over the course of, say, a decade or two (or three...).
> I am surprised we consider TSMC like a natural resource: isn't it really a combination of know-how and build-out according to that know-how?
Have you seen how many states and countries look enviously at Silicon Valley’s tech companies, China’s manufacturing dominance, or London’s financial sector and try to replicate them?
Turns out it’s way harder than you’d expect.
Hell, Intel can’t match TSMC despite decades of expertise, much greater fame, and regulators happy to change the law and hand out tens of billions in subsidies.
Does China need to take Taiwan? American protection of the island seems to be a waning concern. I could see that being a peaceful event now. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj94y87k2ljo
That doesn't work in tech based professions. In college I took music technology. It was 2 years of my own learning and explaining how everything worked to my tutor.
Cool to see someone did
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