Perennially relevant: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Jq73GozjsuhdwMLEG/superstimu...

Also in comic form: https://stuartmcmillen.com/comic/supernormal-stimuli/

thanks, the comic managed to get me out of bed

not anything new. people have been taking up “old timey” hobbies to get away from screens since the late 2000s. you’ll remember the hipster javascript baristas of portland taking up leatherworking and blacksmithing between launching meteorJS sites “made with <3”

Agreed. My take is both your example and the article's are just "people taking up hobbies" in general. Millenials in your example, GenZ now, both at a time in their lives were they earn a stable, regular income for the first time and have time after work to actually follow a hobby or two... But ofc thats not exciting enough for a modern headline.

I still like the old “made with <3” meme. Maybe it’s because nowadays, I’ve been doing way less software professionally so it’s able to be my hobby again, and it feels fitting.

In his entire screed he never realizes the reason Apple got their transition to work was they genuinely worked hard to make it happen on both ends: they forced developers hard AND still shipped Rosetta 2 to make it seamless for user anxiety for laggard developers. They even had this playbook watching Apple do their first transition from PowerPC to x86. Yet he seems to think Windows 8’s problem was velocity.

It's not ZIRP, it's FLOMA.

I believe you’re late to the “ash shell” name by about 36 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almquist_shell

very interesting article but i was surprised pg’s conclusion was the opposite of what i expected. to me it was like oh this is brilliant, instead of trading effort linearly for money you can just control image and be paid outside for it. reminded me of, e.g. chamberlain canned coffee, which tastes terrible but has emma chamberlain’s personal brand lifting for it in the aisle every time you see it.

you never know what’s going on in someone else’s claude max plan

This answer is LLM generated.

i do robots for work (formerly drones, now self driving cars). pick a type of robot that interests you. self driving rovers, industrial manufacturing machines, drones, humanoids, underwater pipe inspecting subs are all robots with very different technologies underlying them. very hard to just “learn robots” you gotta have something in mind that you think is cool that is the direction you wanna go in, otherwise e.g. you learn inverse kinematics and it’s completely unnecessary for delivery drones, or you learn VLMs and it’s completely unnecessary for industrial robots. start with the goal and then peel back the onion. good luck!

Why did you switch from drones to self driving cars? Is it the work itself or just better salaries etc.?

To be fair, writing a takedown blogpost on a maintainer for closing its PR is the most human oss dev thing an agent could do.

there are so many special cases that this game responds to, i was shocked that it didn’t involve an llm at all at the end. very cool.