@deech

938 Followers
261 Following
4.7K Posts

My bank emailed me "AI is changing check fraud. Here's what you can do to protect yourself."

Nonono, Mr. Banky-bank. Tell me what YOU are doing to protect me against check fraud. This is a you problem, caused by a system you designed and run. How about you don't externalize that cost onto me?

I have, since the 1980s, DESPISED any excuse like "oh sorry we got a new computer system" or "we can't do X anymore because of the computer". How you do business isn't my fucking problem. Don't give me excuses for not having your shit together.

This is the same as "we are experiencing unexpectedly high call volume." Well, that's pretty fucking poor planning on your part, then, innit? Hold times aren't long because of the forces of nature, they are because you're too fucking cheap to pay sufficient staff.

One of the silver linings of this llm era is we now know all the things people tried out when they thought it was easy.

Now we have to take those and make them actually easy.

Channeling Engelbart, users are telling us how they would like to control complexity in their domains, maybe listening could be profitable.

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@lproven/116680552663403239

My takeaway is this is an excellent list of the kind of things people actually want to do with their computers and we should work to make them low friction.

Totally do-able technically, but probably impossible in the current dev culture.

"I'm bullish on AI, but bearish on any specific AI company" is a baffling position. 🤔

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48361365

Up until this point, the potential for an AI bust blast radius was limited to co... | Hacker News

@dysfun something does not track
The copilot news isn't on the front page of Lobsters or Proggit. Something is amiss.
i went to my favorite museum this weekend
A huge copilot price increase is actually a pretty creative way of fixing uptime issues ...

@ross I think M-x recursive-edit is pretty cool, because it shows that underpinning everything is a delimited continuation primitive.

And you can just invoke it directly.

https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Recursive-Edit.html

Recursive Edit (GNU Emacs Manual)

Recursive Edit (GNU Emacs Manual)

@theorangetheme @dysfun let's see it goes, it like some people/companies are still willing to pay for it for perceived value https://old.reddit.com/r/github/comments/1tta8ek/time_to_move_on/op1795q/