mattmatheus

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by mattmatheus 19d ago
There's a survey that pops up on Twitter/X every now and then asking about a specific brand and it always asks whether I remember seeing an ad for that brand... I usually cannot, but I'm going to assume that X knows whether i
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by mattmatheus 29d ago
Yes, if you can even get your product high enough on the rankings to make a sale. The incumbent has a massive advantage, making it harder for a new (but better) product to get on the first page.
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by mattmatheus 2mo ago
Assembly programmers made the same argument. It seems that we revisit this same trope each time the practice of software engineering undergoes a paradigm shift. Some have a harder time with the transition than others.
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by mattmatheus 2mo ago
Indeed. It's very bad.
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by mattmatheus 2mo ago
Quite a lot of people think they're far better engineers than they really are, myself included. I've gotten better over the past few years at realizing that AI writes better code than me, which has made it easier for me to stick
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by mattmatheus 2mo ago
I'm not sure this is a realistic use case to try and support. A 10 year old android phone likely has a battery life measured in 10s of minutes, and really isn't something we need to worry about.
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by mattmatheus 3mo ago
I've been working to use the best model for the task for about 6 months and have found great success doing plan with the 'frontier' model but punting implementation down to a 'lesser' model. I'm using the Bead
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by mattmatheus 3mo ago
I've followed the same routine each Friday for at least the past 10 years. - Install all updates - Save tabs off to Obsidian (or Raindrop now) - Reboot Feels good coming in on Monday to a fresh session.
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by mattmatheus 3mo ago
Not sure about the stated principal, but I do think it follows the policy nicely. Yes, you can upload your AI generated music, but it will be tagged as such, and you cannot profit from it.
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by mattmatheus 3mo ago
NIMBYism has been popular for a long time. People really do want datacenters (or at least, the things that having datacenters enable).. they just want them somewhere else.