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New comment by danfunk in "What we do to the web, we do to ourselves"

danfunk — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:05:42 +0000

25 Fields Medalists reflected last week “[we all need] to make sure that, as AI changes the way work is done, we do not lose sight of what that work was meant to achieve in the first place.” Their public statement calls out the important connection between a groups goal, and the group itself. It is a caution that we must not destroy the social fabric that clothes us. What we do to that fabric, we do to ourselves.

What we do to the web, we do to ourselves

danfunk — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:05:42 +0000

Article URL: https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/what-we-do-to-the-web-we-do-to-ourselves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49716391

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by danfunk in "Go Slow to Go Fast"

danfunk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Why "Move Fast, Break Things" is a lousy motto.

Slowly make haste, and without losing courage; Twenty times redo your work; Polish and re-polish endlessly, And sometimes add, but often take away Nicolas Boileau

Go Slow to Go Fast

danfunk — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:08:30 +0000

Article URL: https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/make-haste-slowly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49647976

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by danfunk in "Make Haste Slowly"

danfunk — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:33:28 +0000

AI is having a profound impact on my creative process, as an artist, as an engineer, and as a business owner. Generative AI can remove some of the pain from making new things. What is the price we pay for it's help? Does it really make us faster to use AI to create something, or do we spend the same time, but in a different way? I've often heard people use different versions of "Go slow to go fast". It's embedded in ancient stories like the tortoise and the hair, carved in Greek letters on ancient buildings. Festina lente. σπεῦδε βραδέως. Make Haste Slowly.

Make Haste Slowly

danfunk — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:33:28 +0000

Article URL: https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/make-haste-slowly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49611846

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by danfunk in "Bot Vs Bot (Philip K. Dicks Defenders and the search for work)"

danfunk — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:05:32 +0000

What a Philip K Dick short story teaches us about a modern day job search.

Bot Vs Bot (Philip K. Dicks Defenders and the search for work)

danfunk — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 20:05:32 +0000

Article URL: https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/bot-vs-bot

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49514274

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by danfunk in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

danfunk — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:30:38 +0000

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it."

Upton Sinclair

New comment by danfunk in "The Primitive Puppet Show"

danfunk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:08:33 +0000

That is a travesty. I can't help but hope we can find ways to protect projects like this in a way that doesn't require government or corporate regulation. Others have mentioned a Web of Trust / Social Credit - if we could wire that into the the http protocol ...

New comment by danfunk in "The Primitive Puppet Show"

danfunk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:51:35 +0000

The current hiring process is a good example of the AI Arms Race that Cory Doctorow was writing about recently. https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/10/deep-state-wopr/#abelard-... - It's also a good example of a multi-polar trap. The rules of the current game assure everyone looses.

New comment by danfunk in "The Primitive Puppet Show"

danfunk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:55:57 +0000

Can we use LLMs to improve human to human communication rather than thwart it?

The Primitive Puppet Show

danfunk — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:55:57 +0000

Article URL: https://spiffworks.substack.com/p/the-primitive-puppet-show

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49333079

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

New comment by danfunk in "Elevators"

danfunk — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:30:32 +0000

AI use in the creation of this article is inconsequential. There is obvious joy and high fidelity information here. Perhaps some vibe coding made the animations easier to develop, and made it possible to produce this in reasonable time. Who cares. Love of craft is evident. What more proof do you need that this is worthy of human attention?

New comment by danfunk in "Airport Simulator"

danfunk — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:44:22 +0000

Perfect kind of intuitive. It was a joy to figure it out, and just "learn by doing".

New comment by danfunk in "The Relevance of BPMN in the Age of AI"

danfunk — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:21:40 +0000

Focused generally on communication, with BPMN being one tool among many. No one here gives a 1/2 damn about BPMN, but I think you will find the article worthy of the 5 minutes.

The Relevance of BPMN in the Age of AI

danfunk — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:21:40 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/spiffworkflow/the-relevance-of-bpmn-in-the-age-of-ai-1f28440440e5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198111

Points: 3

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New comment by danfunk in "Job Is to Give a Shit"

danfunk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:52:05 +0000

I love the story of Clever Hans, which says so much about humans and so little about horses - I get the point that it makes these experiments very difficult.

New comment by danfunk in "Job Is to Give a Shit"

danfunk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:49:25 +0000

my dad passed away within a year of retirement. I remember there being studies at the time saying this was common, but the research doesn't seem to hold this up as much any more.

But I agree that "purpose" is critical to life. I tend to think of it as having a meaningful role in our "community" - but there seems to be wide flexibility in what defines a community. I was certain for a very long time that we had to work to live meaningful lives, and I think I've drifted slightly away from that notion over the last year. We just need to be important to at least one other person. There is great deal of "work" involved in just doing that.

New comment by danfunk in "Job Is to Give a Shit"

danfunk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:29:31 +0000

Reminds me of the quote from A Princess Bride - Life is pain. Anyone who says different is selling something.