jmathai

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by jmathai 3d ago
For context for those outside the US, this is a play on a common saying "Guns don't kill people. People kill people." It's commonly used in relation to the 2nd amendment which gives citizens the right to bear arms. It co
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by jmathai 5d ago
I hear the words you're saying. But this was not the case for myself setting up Wordpress and trying to help a non-technical user navigate the admin dashboard to manage their content.
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by jmathai 5d ago
I think a large % of Wordpress usage is for simple websites that are better served by tools simpler than Wordpress. I'm not sure if you've tried to use Wordpress for a simple site. I did recently and it was a horrendous experience
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Sojourn for iOS Was 45 One-Shot Prompts(jaisenmathai.com)
2 points by jmathai 5d ago|0 comments
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by jmathai 6d ago
I haven't used Astra or Fable much. It's because Opus 4.8 is doing everything I need and I feel confident in using it. Why fix what's not broken? The model isn't the limiting factor for me right now. I just wrote about m
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by jmathai 6d ago
I just came here to say that I tried setting Wordpress up for someone a couple weeks ago and the entire admin experience felt like someone designed it WHILE AT burning man.
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by jmathai 6d ago
There is a simple version of this idea that really resonates with me. For about a decade, I've been using flat files on disk or object storage for most of my side projects. There's even a python library that handles some of the pl
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by jmathai 7d ago
I'm not sure "most" people have taste (assuming taste isn't subjective). I don't think AI slop is indicative of taste. A lot of work doesn't care about taste at all. And AI slop is problematic in that it churns
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by jmathai 7d ago
A lot more people have taste than have previously been able to materialize it. With AI, I created printable artifacts for a booth of a nonprofit I advise. We don't have a "creative" on the team but I'm fluent with all o
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by jmathai 7d ago
This is true :P.
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by jmathai 7d ago
I don't even need to read a Bloomberg report to know this. I've personally experienced noticeable mental decline as my AI usage at work has gone up. I can only imagine what it does to children whose brains are still developing. I&
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by jmathai 7d ago
YC funded Flock 10 years ago is even more accurate. I get that Flock is now a pretty obnoxious company but it's hard to attribute that to YC.
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by jmathai 7d ago
LLMs add enough nondeterminism to a workflow. Swapping them without the user knowing adds substantially more.
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by jmathai 7d ago
I think an $18 billion dollar fine implies that they broke a law or two.
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by jmathai 8d ago
Really? There's so much information about how Meta targeted children with addictive design patterns. They paid the fine, and profited in the meantime. Do you really think they have any reason not to do the same in the future?
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by jmathai 8d ago
I trust Meta will keep those they don't want to access the data out. It's Meta that I don't trust.
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by jmathai 8d ago
> Your personal data is safe and secure That's from the article. I can't think of anyone I'd trust less with my data than Meta. Well, thieves, I guess.
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by jmathai 9d ago
I feel, many times, the way Bill did in that email. Seems most people don’t mind or care. I wondered how anyone successfully filed for unemployment a few years ago when I had to. But many seem to do it successfully. I tell my wife that I pa
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by jmathai 9d ago
I think this answer depends on age. For me, it was up until right around 2014. That’s when, I think, social media and mobile phones unlocked a number of generally unproductive behavior both personally and in business. The early 2000s were t
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by jmathai 11d ago
Fine is quite an understatement. It was everything I loved about the Internet. I think jQuery was when I feel the Internet peaked. It was dethroned by corporate OSS(react, angular) and it has never felt the same.
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by jmathai 11d ago
I recently posted that “Big Tech Wants To Br Your Bible Translator”. Each industry has its own challenges with AI. The YouVersion CEO is vocal about his belief that GenAI isn’t suitable for many use cases. I can see why they’d want to contr
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by jmathai 11d ago
To avoid misquoting scripture it’s using a couple techniques including tool calls for grounding and a client-side parsing layer to find and replace citations. It currently uses deepseek flash. We’ll evaluate local models in the future.
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Big Tech Wants to Be Your Bible Translator(jaisenmathai.com)
3 points by jmathai 12d ago|2 comments
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by jmathai 13d ago
I would encourage you to explore professions that you might find more fulfilling. I had found myself in a similar situation as you. Some ideas that I explored were working for a church or non profit, starting an interior design firm with my
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by jmathai 14d ago
I consider myself an AI optimist. From what I've seen, I think there's a lot of headroom for it to expand it's disruption. I also dislike the future that would result in. Heck, I want to go back to pre-iPhone.
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by jmathai 14d ago
The chasm is wide between skeptics and optimists. It's as interesting psychologically as it is technically.
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by jmathai 14d ago
Immich is such a wonderful piece of OSS software. I've replaced Google Photos with it. And then some. For the nerds... https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/my-ridiculously-robust-pho...
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by jmathai 14d ago
It's a tough predicament when the industry you're in is moving towards violating your personal preferences and ethics. I'm neither agreeing with or disagreeing with the author's stance. But this tension crosses the line
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Explore the Bible like Wikipedia(trysojourn.app)
3 points by jmathai 14d ago|0 comments
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by jmathai 15d ago
I have wondered this about an open source project I wrote about a decade ago [1] and still use. It's an order of magnitude less popular than Monica at 1.5k stars. The code base and logic is complex enough that it's hard to fix bug

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