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ahamilton454 commented on Using e-ink tablet as monitor for Linux   alavi.me/blog/e-ink-table... · Posted by u/yolkedgeek
ahamilton454 · 6 days ago
Reading this on my eink Bigme Hibreak pro :).
ahamilton454 commented on Why I love my Boox Palma e-reader   minimal.bearblog.dev/why-... · Posted by u/pastel5
ahamilton454 · a month ago
I use the bigme hibreak pro as my primary device. Its an eink device but also just a full phone. Almost bought the boox palma, but held back because I only really want to carry a single device.
ahamilton454 commented on Building better AI tools   hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/eternalreturn
creesch · 5 months ago
Have you ever paid close attention to those questions though? Deep research can be really nifty, but I feel like the questions it asks are just there for the "cool factor" to make people think it is properly consider things.

The reason I think that is because it often ask about things I already took great care to explicitly type out. I honestly don't think those extra questions add much to the actually searching it does.

ahamilton454 · 5 months ago
It doesn't always ask great questions, but even just the fact that it does makes me re-think what i am asking.

I definetly sometimes ask really specialized questions and in that case i just say "do the search" and ignore the questions, but a lot of times it helps me determine what i am really asking.

I suspect people with execellent communication abilities might find less utility from the questions

ahamilton454 commented on Building better AI tools   hazelweakly.me/blog/stop-... · Posted by u/eternalreturn
ahamilton454 · 5 months ago
This is one of the reasons I really like deep research. It always asks questions first and forces me to refine and better define what I want to learn about.

A simple UX change makes the difference between education and dumbing users of your service.

ahamilton454 commented on I'm rebelling against the algorithm   varunraghu.com/im-rebelli... · Posted by u/Varun08
ahamilton454 · 5 months ago
I am somewhat in the same boat as this. At least i try to be super intentional about it. I replaced my iphone with the Hibreak bigme pro which is an e-ink phone.

Its not perfect. Ironically I still can doomscroll on it, but it is much bettter.

For youtube if you disable reccomendations, shorts eventually the feed disappears. I also use an extension called youtube block feed, which only allows me to see my subscriptions.

Its an imperfect firewall, but I am happy with it so far.

ahamilton454 commented on What's happening to reading?   newyorker.com/culture/ope... · Posted by u/Kaibeezy
ahamilton454 · 5 months ago
This was a pretty thoughtful piece and a pleasure to read. My gut reaction at first was that it was going to be some critque on children not reading due to generative ai (a cynial piece), but it was quite an interesting reflection on simply how reading is changing from the prepective of this author whose spent a his life deeply reading books

The ending had a nice flair of grandness to it as well.

ahamilton454 commented on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative   github.com/voideditor/voi... · Posted by u/sharjeelsayed
ahamilton454 · 7 months ago
The irony of an open source alternative to a fork of an open source project is hopefully not lost here
ahamilton454 commented on MCPVault   github.com/andrewlayer/MC... · Posted by u/ahamilton454
ahamilton454 · 8 months ago
A stupidly simple CLI to store MCP configs. I need to change them all the time and move them from client to client which is annoying. Hopefully this solves my problems and maybe one of yours.
ahamilton454 commented on The hidden cost of AI coding   terriblesoftware.org/2025... · Posted by u/Sharpie4679
ahamilton454 · 8 months ago
I’ve been struggling with a very similar feeling. I too am a manager now. Back in the day there was something very fulfilling about fully understanding and comprehending your solution. I find now with AI tools I don’t need to understand a lot. I find the job much less fulfilling.

The funny thing is I agree with other comments, it is just kind of like a really good stack overflow. It can’t automate the whole job, not even close, and yet I find the tasks that it cannot automate are so much more boring (the ones I end up doing).

I envy the people who say that AI tools free them up to focus on what they care about. I haven’t been able to achieve this building with ai, if anything it feels like my competence has decreased due to the tools. I’m fairly certain I know how to use the tools well, I just think that I don’t enjoy how the job has evolved.

u/ahamilton454

KarmaCake day80March 16, 2021View Original