Not the person you are replying to but I have, in version control, around 80 projects dating back to about 2008 that are in various states of completion and Claude has been able to resurrect a lot of them and get them from their "half finished but will never complete" state up to "pull in modern dependencies and implement (me giving a list of what remains to be done)" to the point that they are now usable. I'm more focused on the things that are 7 or less years old because anything older than that I'm not sure I have a need for anymore.
That's funny, I actively seek out books written post 2022, because I enjoy the injection of AI related humor and commentary that some authors include.
Similar to how movies now include texting dialogue sometimes, it's now part of art to imitate life. I imagine modern film has couples who met through AI now and so on.
Everyone needs to get some deep sleep, and it would be nice to leave an AI running at it while I am sleeping. Are you proposing to experiment with leaving AI models with a big question and time, while you get well rested for the physical mission it will propose? The you wake up and take the actions it couldn't?
Happy Earth day! Although I'm having a somewhat sad earth day since I've been scattering wildflower seeds and two days ago the city came though and mowed them all down. So it's less happy than usual, now the flowers are all dead.
Thanks! Their videos are already being recommended to me. I'm persistent with my flower seeding, this is my third year and in the big picture 'mowed by the town/county" is one of the less distressing things to happen. Once I had several beautiful zinnias growing near the county creek and someone came with a shovel and dug them all up! The seeds won't be stopped though.
Don't people just tell you if something is made by AI? It doesn't seem like something to hide. Look, I made something cool using an AI tool. That's great to hear, the thing I'm interested in is the Something Cool, but I do also want to know how, so I can learn how to build Something Cool myself.
I love concord grapes so much. Im eagerly awaiting their annual return to the farmers market (early September). I love them so much the vendors know to get me and tell me when they are here. I don't understand why the demand for them is small.
I was a teenager around the dot-com and to this day I feel an idealized sense of longing for participation in the exciting times of the dot-coms. You guys got to enjoy the blazing innovation of the new internet, so full of endless possibilities. Tough luck on your bubble popping moment though.
Well, it was exciting I guess. I even knew someone who worked for pets.com!
On the other hand, I worked for a startup selling product information management software to large retailers, and was about as non dot-com as you could get. When the bubble burst, all the funding disappeared for all tech companies, not just the dot-com ones, so we were also all out of a job. Which was not fun.
It was watching all the potential being squandered and the internet basically being relegated to click farming and selling people crap they don't need.
All the really cool stuff seems to have died with the bubble...
I think the sad part was the people entering the IT workforce for only money. Don't get me wrong, I understand why and not gatekeeping. But it was the first time I know that people with computer skills were highly in demand, so anyone who had turned on a computer was able to get a job even if they knew nothing of how a computer actually worked, or networking.
So I am taking a different approach than instead of just focusing on software. I have Gemini app, Claude app, Grok app and then chatgpt still using web interface. And periodically I ask them questions about what I can do to improve the wellbeing of humans. I think trying to use them for work is okay, but it's not the best way to use these tools, we can use them to broaden our thinking and find challenges we never considered before.
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