perhaps apocryphal but “A single lie discovered is enough to create doubt in every truth expressed.”. Why trust these tools for the hard things when we don't for the 'easy' ones.
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fantasizr commented on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/michael-sumner
Sorry to be blunt, but Google needs a better Product Marketing team.
As an engineering manager with an AI budget, I'm always looking for better and cheaper tools.
I have a decade of engineering experience and consider myself fairly intelligent.
I still can't figure out what this is, who it's for, or how much it costs.
It's been going on for years
https://x.com/tomgara/status/1587640766696140800?lang=en
"It’s pretty simple: Google Meet (original) was previously Meet, which was the rebranded Hangouts Meet. Meet has been merged with Google Duo, which replaced Google Hangouts. Google Duo has been renamed Meet, and Meet has been temporarily named Google Meet (original), for clarity"
fantasizr commented on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/bradleyg223
I like living in a world where I know that people who have spent actually time on nurturing a talent get rewarded for doing so, even if that talent is not something I will ever be good at.
I don't want to live in a world where these things are generated cheaply and easily for the profit of a very select few group of people.
I know the world doesn't work like I described in the top paragraph. But it's a lot closer to it than the bottom.
I could see that theater and live music (especially performed on acoustic instruments) become hyper popular because it'll be the only talent worth paying to see when everything else is 'cheaply' made.
I always ask the "dumb" questions, even when I already know the answer, because there are always people too intimidated to speak up, and it sometimes facilitates a deeper discussion.
I always respected leaders who did this, preprogramming the dumb questions in a presentation for the benefit of the timid ones
The real power of Claude Code comes when you realise it can do far more than just write code.
It can, in fact, control your entire computer. If there's a CLI tool, Claude can run it. If there's not a CLI tool... ask Claude anyway, you might be surprised.
E.g. I've used Claude to crop and resize images, rip MP3s from YouTube videos, trim silence from audio files, the list goes on. It saves me incredible amounts of time.
I don't remember life before it. Never going back.
I learned the hard old fashioned way how to build a imagemagick/mogrify command. Having the ai tools assist saves a crazy amount of time.
fantasizr commented on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks arstechnica.com/ai/2025/0... · Posted by u/jonbaer
I've written high-quality technical how-tos for many years, starting with PC World magazine articles (supported by ads), a book that helped people learn Ruby on Rails (sales via Amazon), and more recently a website that's good for queries like "uninstall Homebrew" or "xcode command line tools" (sponsored by a carefully chosen advertiser). With both a (small) financial incentive and the intrinsic satisfaction of doing good work that people appreciate, I know I've helped a LOT of people over four decades.
A year ago my ad-supported website had 100,000 monthly active users. Now, like the article says, traffic is down 40% thanks to Google AI Overview zero clicks. There's loss of revenue, yes, but apart from that, I'm wondering how people can find my work, if I produce more? They seldom click through on the "source" attributes, if any.
I wonder, am I standing at the gates of hell in a line that includes Tower Records and Blockbuster? Arguably because I'm among those that built this dystopia with ever-so-helpful technical content.
Netflix didn't steal from Blockbuster mailing you their pirated DVDs.
fantasizr commented on Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity (2018) lethain.com/digg-v4/... · Posted by u/jamescun
Forget about production, how did this make it into python? This is so unbelievably stupid it makes PHP look like a sensible language.
It's one of the top python posts on S/O, every python developer finds their way to this discovery https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1132941/least-astonishme...
AlLpine.js is a great jQuery replacement.
I'm using Alpine.js in a Django project and it does what it says on the tin. It blends well with the MVT style of Django along with HTMX and makes the client side interactions really easy. This is now my favorite JS framework for doing light client side JS magic.
We use alpine as well, very simple to add in for some simple reactive uis. Flask+Alpine seems to work well for us.