Imagine if someone cracked the speed of light. Now we could visit far off galaxies on vacation. Do you think we’d build it or argue about whether we should? Heh I know the human species, we don’t do that kind of thinking we just go. #
The thing about tech, you have to start out small and simple, and carefully add features based on actual real-world-now use cases. Otherwise you end up missing the target, and have to go back and patch it, and it never gets simple. The only way to have a chance is if you start small, learn, and evolve carefully. #
The giftarticles feed is now a simple RSS 2.0 feed. It’s not pretty, that would require some work with Masotdon, but it does work. #
AI is a miracle of human science, it took generations to get to the point we’re at now, and the rate of development building software on top of it is imho the basis for a revolution. We use computers in all aspects of our lives, and the UI of the software is nowhere near as good as it should be, that’s because there are severe limits the human mind has where the AI has apparently none. So if you’re down on AI, you should at least understand that there is huge potential here, which is being utilized, will result in much more powerful software that works well with others, instead of locking-in users and locking-out competitors (and their users). We’ve created a predictably bad system now, predictable because we always create silos when we give big money a chance to call all the shots. We don’t get chances to rewrite the rules very often, but this is one of those times. Last one was in the early 1990s with the advent of the web. My plan is to give all the new power back to the web. And looking at what AI companies are doing, that is exactly what they’re doing — they’re doing it the right way — radically simple, easy to clone formats, and easy for users and developers to read. #
