Screencast looks great btw.

Feels a bit like a fools errand.

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Finding customers will be difficult. I suggest finding a couple and then talking with them to learn what they want first and then understand their willingness to purchase by offering them a device at a cost.

For me - I’m in the market. I flashed my Asus router with Merlin. I’d do the same for my next router. What might lead me to buy my next device from you?

- I like to support independent vendors when I can. (See caveats below) - I would like a built in way to keep the firmware up to date … mine is old. - I would want to understand the commercial equivalent router based on specs to make it easier for me to decide if it will meet my needs. - The rest is provided by DD-wrt.

Happy to be user #1. Contact in profile.

And just to be clear, I think LLMs will be a net negative on society.

Also, political ads in the U.S. have become so obnoxious. I don’t know how it is elsewhere.

Ads in the U.S. are personal attacks at the opponents character or lies about them. There is currently an ad about how an opposing politician supports sex change surgery without parent consent. Nothing is believable about the ad - yet somehow it’s not slander or libel.

This is the ad. https://youtu.be/WFISHnLCmms

The optimists have been more correct in predicting the capabilities and usefulness of LLMs.

The pessimists seem to have a hard time rationalizing what they thought with what’s actually happening.

We talk a lot about the consumer side of this. Consumers will get tired of the creative output of AI. That it lacks soul. I agree.

But there is also the artist’s side. A craft that you dedicate decades to that’s now indistinguishable from someone who typed a couple sentences. This is a demoralizing place to be.

The comment is dismissive. I know plenty about this space. I’ve had both an acquired startup and spent about a decade at Google. I understand what complex software looks like.

I used to read his articles back a decade ago. I really enjoyed them. This quote from the article resonated with me. It’s a sobering feeling having dedicated a career to the field to struggle keeping up.

RIP. He seemed to face a lot of struggles both physically and emotionally towards the end of his life.

I’m convinced that’s the only reason Wordpress is still popular. The administrative experience was atrocious. Actually, that is an understatement.

My current project is created by one-shot prompts. That’s not some kind of parlor trick. It is the framework for creating and evolving the product.

Many people laugh it off as “unserious”. But as I said, I see this happening in my place of work where people are paid lots of money.

https://jaisenmathai.com/articles/sojourn-for-ios-was-45-one...

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Google Photos -> Immich (better)

Google Search -> Claude (better)

Google Calendar -> Apple Calendar (better)

Google Chrome -> Safari or Firefox - someone please make a basic browser that can handle 30 tabs without needing gigs of memory

Google Maps -> .... I've been seeing if MapQuest is "good enough"

GMail -> .... I think Fastmail is "good enough" - GMail's bells and whistles aren't as important anymore

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There's the meme that the smartest people in the world are figuring out how to show ads. It's no different this time around. I understand that not everyone working on AI is building an ad network - but ultimately it feels like that's the end result.

It didn't feel quite this way 15 years ago. Back then, it felt much more tangible how technology was improving our lives. It is sort of tangible now too - I am doing things with AI that I otherwise couldn't. But somehow if feels like progress for the sake of progress.

And to be honest, it doesn't feel like the progress is for me or the people I care about.