Kyle Hughes

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I am a polite software developer and I am always committed to the bit. I will be your favorite app maker’s favorite app maker.

I am enamored by user-facing software, especially mobile, and especially iOS. Swift is my current weapon of choice but I will use any made-up word to solve any problem. I ship my side projects for free.

I run this single-user Mastodon instance in good faith and I intend to keep it that way.

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@agiletortoise it’s not wrong
The tough thing about castigating "do your own research" is that it is absolutely the case that you can get better medical outcomes in the United States if you are actually able to do your own research.
I wasn’t planning on making this point, but now that I think about it: AI definitely does make some tech debt cheaper, doesn’t it? That seems pretty widely accepted. e.g. a semantic or linguistic refactor. Or, if it’s good for programming at all, doesn’t that make programming cheaper, and thus tech debt? It’s not unreasonable to think the scope of what will be made more cheap will expand.

@cocoaphony Those are applications of the Bitter Lesson as I read it, with the general point being that the methods that win make most effective use of increasing computation, not the ones that bake in human-crafted domain knowledge; better to exploit more compute than encode more human understanding.

If each new model is throwing new compute at the “problem,” then one may assume what requires encoding human understanding today—feedback, tests, Markdown—gets beat by more compute tomorrow.

ok the joke was “this is the default parent couple right now” but now the joke is that ChatGPT image gen nailed it, I have been to their baby shower

Millennial Mom, Big Bag, Big Sunglasses On Head, Poofy Pants, Sandals

Millennial Dad, Patagonia Hat, Skinny, Runner Shorts, Weird Small Shoes

@nickheer whoa!
This is the most Friday Thursday in a long time.
I would probably pay $50/mo for YouTube Premium if the alternative was ad-laden enough. It’s really all I need.