My oh shit moment was when I thought it was going to be the future but it ended up leaving me disappointed, frustrated and annoyed. It's closed down tech, stealing work, ruining our climate and it doesn't work remotely as well as advertised.

It's also unclear what conversing agents are useful for other than wasting money, energy and water.

It's hard enough to get the same model to be consistent around it's vision let alone multiple of them.

I'm building an EMR and the other day asked Claude what a decent model would look like for capturing wound orders. Then, I took the output, started a new session and asked the new session to critique that model and the response made me want to pull my hair out. It blasted the model from it's former self and suggested making a ton of updates.

I'm sure more scoped tasks would fair better, but it was pretty frustrating.

> Then, I took the output, started a new session and asked the new session to critique that model and the response made me want to pull my hair out.

I do this with all my important code, before I’ve even looked at it. And not just a critique, I ask “does this solve the problem X and was it built to spec Y”. Then I do my own review once the robots stop arguing.

If your expectations are that the quality of the code matches the confidence level of the robot’s tone, you’re gonna have a bad time.

I prefer Codex’s depth and guidance but prefer Claude’s execution because it’s more transparent.

I use both daily. I’m the intermediary though.

If I don't see the point of Elixir, or I don't like it, or I simply straight up hate it, why would I go into HN submissions about new Elixir versions and spew my personal opinion that has nothing to do with the topic at hand?

You can just skip commenting unless you have something actually useful to add. Even if it's criticism of the specific thing, but at the very least make it on topic instead of general digressions that just add noise to the conversation.

What a weirdly hostile comment.

You really don't choose a Framework based on raw performance. You coose it because your values align with their philosophy.

Same goes for a Fairphone

Very nicely factual and non-clickbait article for once.

Oh no

We're just going to call more and more things faschist until the word has lost all its meaning

At this point it's just a synonym for "type of authoritarianism I don't like".

What would non-fascist authoritarianism be?

It's already lost all meaning.

I hope fees increase massively to incentivise change

I'd prefer if post titles returned that immediately showed if it was an AI tool. These AI projects seem to be picking more and more random names

Seems pretty useful to be able to write your documentation videos as steps and generate new videos everytime the platform changes. Let’s say you have 200 videos showing how to do different things and now the UI changes.

You can either leave the videos as is (and get more confused customers) or you can spend a lot of hours recording 200 videos again. Or you can run this and get the 200 videos done in the background. Let’s say that your app is changing every month because you are early in your iteration. That is a lot of time saved every month.

Or you want to produce demo videos in multiple languages.

That’s a great usecase too.

Say you have documentation with a video showing the user how to open a page, click a button, scroll, etc. Instead of having to re-record those videos every time you update the UI you can use this library to automatically recapture it on every push.

Many websites have looping or scroll-triggered animations, or play gifs / videos that a static image wouldn't capture.

i bet you its in aid of advertising somehow

The apple care experience is a scam

Just a few years ago I accidentally stood on my Macbook, screen broke and we got a new one no questions asked. If that's a scam then everything is.

Firstly, you had to pay so much money for that screen that you had to consider buying a new device.

Secondly, Apple Products seem specifically engineered to easily break catastrophically (see SSD power supply below speaker grill, zapping the NAND modules if liquid enters the conveniently placed holes. Or a loose metal plate slicing a crucial ribbon cable when the phone was dropped. And many more such cases

This mix of overly fragile design and ridiculously expensive first-party repairs combined with parts pairing and the resulting inability of third-party, non-apple-certified repair shops to level the playing field is what I call a scam.

Not for people who don't know the first thing about laptops and how to fix them.