I think you've just summed up late stage capitalism.

What a time to be alive.

People on both sides seem to give capitalism a lot of credit for human traits that existed long before capitalism.

Well the point of capitalism (going back to Adam Smith) is that the invisible hand converts locally selfish behavior to globally good outcomes. The argument is whether or not that emerges. So if your implication was that human trait was selfishness, yes, that is quite the point of capitalism.

This looks interesting! I understand not wanting to put out a narrated tour as the video, but being visually impaired, i find video demos without narration, that constantly move around/focus on different things hard to follow. It still might be worth putting a short screencast with you actually walkign through usijng the product and narrating it.

That's a great idea, I'll look into doing a more long form demonstration

It's unfortunate that this is necessary. It should be obvious that wearing noise cancelling headphones in trafic, including as a pedestrian, is a bad idea.

I'm legally blind, so I have my own bias here, but I think people really over-rely on sight. If you do want to listen to something while walking around a city, I can highly recommend bone conduction headphones, that keep your ears unblocked.

There is, of course, at least one category that don’t over rely upon their hearing: deaf people.

If you just bell once or twice, and don't aggressively keep ringing, I'd never consider a bicycle bell in a shared space rude. I even consider it good manners, though as others have said, that varies between cultures.

Being visually impaired, though, I'm grateful for cyclists who use their bell. It's immediately clear. For some reason, my brain takes slightly longer to process someone yelling "on your left!" or similar, than just a quick "ring ring".

It is a benefit if you're a stakeholder in those companies, or your friends are stakeholders and will pass on some of the winnings as a "thank you."

> On projects where I have no understanding of the underlying technology (e.g. mobile apps), the code still quickly becomes a mess of bad choices. However, on projects where I know the technologies used well (e.g. backend apps, though not necessarily in Python), this hasn’t happened yet, even at tens of thousands of SLoC. Most of that must be because the models are getting better, but I think that a lot of it is also because I’ve improved my way of working with the models.

I wonder whether at some point we'll get a translation model, that translates relatively vague requests into sound architectural decisions, with some embedded knowledge of the environment you're building in, and that can ask clarifying questions when there are multiple options with different tradeoffs.

Is that not already possible with Markdown spec files and planning mode?

I guess? At least there you can review the plan, but is this planning mode any better at making architectural decisions than when you prompt an LLM and let it make the changes directly? (it might be, just not sure.)

Here's an example of one of their dev logs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdym24sg1HQ

Huh, nice. Thanks for sharing.

would you share tools you used to create it? Is voice your own?

I guess it's too late for an "Eternal sunshine of the slopless mind"?

I like this a lot!

One thing I found as a somewhat experienced solver of cryptic crosswords, is that it was confusing that I couldn't just type an answer. I skipped the tutorial/lesson, because I didn't want an explanation of how cryptic clues work, I just wanted to solve one. So a little, inline explanation for first time visitors on how to solve them on this site might be good.

This is an interesting idea, and I'd love to see whether people come up with interesting stories/imaginations with this, but I feel very strongly pushed to engage before I've even properly explored the platform to see the potential. Like, all the stories seem to have their images locked, I assume until I make an account. Then there's also this mention of a pro subscription and some deal for the. firlst N subscribers. I'm not even sure yet if this a platform that's worth enough for me to make an account, let alone pay money for. I understand that image generation isn't cheap so you need to think about monetization early, but I suspect you'll need more ways for people to see the value of it without the commitment of even creating an account to have this become successful.

Thank you, this is exactly the kind of feedback I needed to hear.

You're right — I'm asking for commitment before I've earned it. The blurred images and early premium mentions are creating friction before you've even had a chance to see whether the platform is worth your time.

I'm going to open up visuals for guest users on featured chains and push the monetization messaging much further back in the flow. The value should speak for itself first.

Appreciate you taking the time to articulate this so clearly.