jonplackett

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by jonplackett 4d ago
The economics only make sense if they can replace a huge number of workers with AI. But that reminds me of the story of the union rep telling Ford: “good luck getting your machines to buy your cars” (Fyi Ford took note and started paying hi
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by jonplackett 4d ago
Weird to think we are currently living in the ‘unlimited free Ubers because you recommended a friend or 2’ phase of this new technology. Imagine if running fable costs you what it actually costs to run fable. A lot of vibe coders (and just
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by jonplackett 5d ago
Head, hand and heart are all required to make something worthwhile.
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by jonplackett 5d ago
It looks cool but I just can’t be that bothered to engage with something that contains so little of a human’s input.
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by jonplackett 5d ago
I think you need to just pause for a moment of reflection and look at the number of countries the USA has invaded vs the number Iran has invaded. And then maybe look at the number of nuclear bombs used against other nations.
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by jonplackett 5d ago
I didn’t say they’re given them a bomb. I said nuclear technology. I’m just pointing out that we’re oh so happy to give people who murder gay people weapons and very advanced technology. Because they’re the bad people we like who give us ch
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by jonplackett 5d ago
I have the same gripe and I think it’s just simply that when you are used to being able to just write code, everything else feels like it’s in the way. Visual coding is a pain to change and move around quickly. It’s just clutter ultimately
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by jonplackett 5d ago
Saudi Arabia who they’re fighting against by proxy, and who we sell lots of bombs to, and are soon going to help get nuclear technology, not so great either. https://www.humandignitytrust.org/country-profile/saudi-arab.
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by jonplackett 5d ago
This is part of the Houthis preventing Saudi Arabia from exporting any oil at all. So no I don’t think it’s gonna make oil lower. Higher probably. But oil is doing very weird things.
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by jonplackett 6d ago
I really miss that flash let non-programmers or ‘lite’ programmers (which I was at the time) make cool shit. I still don’t think a tool has really replaced it as a visual coding tool.
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by jonplackett 6d ago
But the thing is the current iPhone is too long for video. You don’t need all the length for 16:9. The two ends are wasted space. So your same video on the fold will be about an inch wider because it has the space to expand into in the othe
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by jonplackett 6d ago
Yeah like why did you upgrade last year or even the one before. I have a 15 and I can’t see anything I’m missing out on. I upgrade for the jumps. This year is the jump!
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by jonplackett 6d ago
I have bought a new iPhone every time they made the screen bigger. That’s pretty much my main reason for upgrading.
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by jonplackett 6d ago
I mean, they have a return policy. Give it a try! It could be fun. How many years did you keep your Nokia 3310 when smart phones were released
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by jonplackett 6d ago
Can we just never link to X posts as the main link.
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by jonplackett 6d ago
I really miss the live presentations. They had a lot more humanity. But I miss the Steve jobs presentations the most. I was watching one of his old presentations the other day from when he was in his 20s - he’s just so engaged and present a
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by jonplackett 7d ago
I’m not sure what the point of this distinction is now because agents are where all the AI is now. And they’re just going to be given more and more tools and be allowed to make their own tools - or misuse things they find and turn into tool
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by jonplackett 8d ago
The thing he talks about in there - an ad telling a dad to use AI for his daughter’s wedding speech. I agree is just so sad. And I’ve seen LOADS of other ads like that encouraging people to use AI for things like asking someone to move seat
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by jonplackett 8d ago
How is this not a gigantic fine from the EU for some kind of GDPR reason
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by jonplackett 8d ago
Not sure everyone agreed to skynet either
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by jonplackett 9d ago
This was the exact argument for developing nuclear bombs. In hindsight it turned out everyone else was MILES behind. But as soon as USA developed one, they just stole the research and got one too.
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by jonplackett 9d ago
Only if targeting schools is progress
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by jonplackett 10d ago
Yeah I wouldn’t say my own site is an example of perfect design!
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by jonplackett 12d ago
Guys. Your top menu doesn’t even fit on mobile properly. The spacing of every element on the site is different and inconsistent. Everything about this site looks cheap and unconsidered. Design is important and builds (or loses) trust. It wo
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by jonplackett 12d ago
If the whole point of these models is they can find security vulnerabilities and zero days then how is it going to be possible to contain them?
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by jonplackett 12d ago
This is kinda my point though - just don’t do it in the first place is the answer. Nothing is unhackable. So don’t create a massive honeypot in the first place.
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by jonplackett 12d ago
We are just sleep walking into Skynet at this point.
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by jonplackett 12d ago
We have too many non-technical people in charge of things who just make decisions based on politics and magical thinking about what is possible. ‘Just make the encryption secure and so we can read it’ ‘Just check everyone’s id but make it t
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by jonplackett 13d ago
How are you finding it when it gets that high anyway? I’ve got a 64gb Mac so the context _can_ go higher. But I find around 70-80k it goes a bit weird and starts arguing with itself and doesn’t seem to know who it is vs me anymore.
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by jonplackett 13d ago
To a vapid any goalpost moving on such a critical issue as AGI. Can we all agree in advance what kind of Pelican would convince us it’s actually AGI. For me it’s refusing to make a pelican.

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