Commit with one character YAML difference? Check.

Commit with 2-3 YAML lines just to add the right logging? Check.

Wait 5+ minutes for a YAML diff to propagate through our test pipeline for the nth time today? .. sigh .. check

BUT, after ironing all these things out (and running our own beefy self-hosted runner which is triggered to wake up when there's a test process to snack on), it's .. uh.. not so bad? For now?

Is that so much to ask?

Could the next "Apple" produce such hardware/software stack to black box this for the consumer -- simply buy "Pineapple" products and guarantee this stuff can't touch you (user obsfuciation for all external platforms could be a hard technical challenge, I know - hence the big value if delivered)

  obj.friends.filter(x=>{ return x.city=='New York'})
  .sort((a, b) => a.age - b.age)
  .map(item => ({ name: item.name, age: item.age }));

am I missing something?

At first I was frustrated but my boss said it was actually a perfect sequence, since that "crappy code" did generate a working demo that our future customers loved, which gave us the validation to re-write. And I agree!

LLMs are just another tool in the chest; a curious, lighting fast jr developer with an IQ of 85 who can't learn and needs a memory wipe whenever they make a design mistake.

When I use it knowing its constraints it's a great tool! But yeah if used wrong you are going to make a mess, just like any powerful tool

Oh, also when it broke down and I tried to restart (the data model rewrite) using a context summary, it started going backwards and migrating back to the old data model beacuse it couldn't tell which one was which .. sigh.

Someone once quipped that AI is like a college kid who studied a few programming courses, has access to all of stack overflow, lives in a world where hours go by in the blink of an eye, and has an IQ of 80 and is utterly incapable of learning.

Postulate: You cannot define a largest physically describable number.

My assumption is that due to the very nature of Kolmogorov complexity (and other Godel related / halting problem related / self referential descriptions), this is not an answerable or sensible question.

It falls under the same language-enabled recursion problems as:

- The least number that cannot be described in less than twenty syllables. - The least number that cannot be uniquely described by an expression of first-order set theory that contains no more than a googol (10^100) symbols.

Yes, technology is the way we circumvent effort to deliver results (e.g. to live longer, healthier, and with less pain/fear.)

Yes, our civilization rewards and encourages short circuiting effort, depriving us of the basic positive feedback loop of effort to reward.

It's been like this since the invention of the wheel and fire. It's up to us to find and/or create meaningful (and effortful) lives, and it is more sustainable to focus on the path than the destination; every zen text teaches this.

This article started off strong but ended up quippy, spiteful and shallow. Still, I appreciate the effort ;-]

The best analogy I can make is actually surprisingly from a book about romantic love, "Undefended Love" [0] where the PhD psychology author goes on to make this critical point:

We often set ourselves up for failure (e.g. negative self talk after a failed romantic outreach attempt) because it results in our progression into a safe and known pattern. They explain that our brains and emotions are somehow more comfortable with a known outcome, even though it is irrevocably and undeniably a worse outcome, simply because it is safe and known to us.

Thus. self-sabotage keeps us inside our comfort zone.

Imaging if you did win that [product launch, vc pitch, ...] your life gets catapulted into the big, scary unknown. Just quit now so we can be comfortable, easy, and lazy!

[0] by Jett Psaris & Marlena S. Lyons

apparently, I need to make a selection of a search engine to use this.

I would not use this as a replacement for my duckduckgo or google searches simply because of the UX of not being able to type a query and press "enter" as the default.

A 3D game to help students in grades 5-8 learn Arithmentic, Fractions, Geometry, and Algebra.

50% or more of middle school students experience math anxiety, and it's no wonder that so many people grow up believing, "I'm not a math person." Math can be incredibly fun and beautiful if approached and experienced the right way. Mathbreakers is a vibrant, interactive world where all game mechanics are built on intrinsic mathematical properties, so simply by playing the game, a foundation of understanding of those concepts is built.

We're doing early prototype testing now with a planned launch in September 2025. The game engine is PlayCanvas (engine-only) and the platform is WebGL (Mac/PC/ChromeOS).