mcoliver (u/mcoliver)

mcoliver commented on Gemini CLI GitHub Actions blog.google/technology/de... · Posted by u/michael-sumner

grogenaut · 25 days ago

I understand Google feels they need to compete in coding AI. The crazy thing to me is:

- Gemini can't make me a calendar appointment between myself and another person for 30 minutes in the next week. Heck it can't make appointments yet. - it can't edit or collaborate on Google docs, just insert. I edit my docs in cline or Claude code as markdown and upload. - speaking of, I don't think they have a MCP for working with docs or sheets - Gemini is worse than a Google search at helping me with sheet formulas

There's all these unique places in googles ecosystem I feel they could/should be excelling at AI at. They're not.

Hell I noticed yesterday searching for my remarkable preorder from years ago that you can't exact string search Gmail anymore. Searching for remarkable was pulling up "amazing". They're just degrading all of their products to stupidity at a time when I and AI can use more powertools

mcoliver · 25 days ago

Could not agree more. Trying to use Veo3 via genai/vertexai sdks has been full of dead ends, broken specs, and confusion. Good ole curl seems to work though.

mcoliver commented on What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another? derekthompson.org/p/what-... · Posted by u/mmcclure

mcoliver · 2 months ago

Having children younger. This builds villages and generates the community flywheel. The problem now is that it's close to impossible for the vast majority of younger people to buy a home with a single income. So the choice becomes dual income and farm out the raising of your children (requires even more money and negates the benefits of enjoying your children which is part of the reason to have them in the first place), or delay having children until you are financially secure. Couple this with the constant inundation of social media and the myriad experiences available with the click of a button and people are simply taking the short term gratification route.

Society needs to change and we need to incentivize it.

mcoliver commented on Define policy forbidding use of AI code generators github.com/qemu/qemu/comm... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

amake · 2 months ago

> #2 Software projects that somehow are 100% human developed will not be competitive with AI assisted or written projects

Still waiting to see evidence of AI-driven projects eating the lunch of "traditional" projects.

mcoliver · 2 months ago

80-90% of Claude is now written by Claude

mcoliver commented on RenderFormer: Neural rendering of triangle meshes with global illumination microsoft.github.io/rende... · Posted by u/klavinski

coalteddy · 3 months ago

I have a friend that works on physically based renderers in the film industry and has also done research in the area. Always love hearing stories and explanations about how things get done in this industry.

What companies are hiring such talent at the moment? Have the AI companies also been hiring rendering engineers for creating training environments?

If you are looking to hire an experienced research and industry rendering engineer i am happy to connect you since my friend is not on social media but has been putting out feelers.

mcoliver · 3 months ago

Have him ping me. Username at Gmail.

mcoliver commented on Handover.ai – Knowledge transfer made easy handover.ai/... · Posted by u/phlcastro

JimDabell · 3 months ago

I think this is a great idea for a product, but in my experience, the pain associated with handover is something that is earned over a long period of time. Knowledge starts to centralise in one person and they don’t do enough to disperse it. Maybe they are too busy, maybe they don’t value documentation, maybe it’s an oversight, there are lots of reasons. But that problem starts to build up and you only discover the full extent of it when they leave and it hits you all at once.

A better solution to this problem would be to improve detecting this problem so you can address it in its early stages instead of when it gets bad. One way of doing this is mandatory time off. I don’t recall who said it first, but time off is chaos monkey for people. It’s common in some industries for employees to be forced to take time off to intentionally cause their normal tasks to be performed without them. For instance, banks use it to detect fraud, because the same person doing the same task all the time can make it easy for them to cover crimes up.

If your team is stuck in a rut and the same person is always responsible for doing important tasks every time, this is a risk. If they took some time off, this would help you figure out what knowledge is centralised with them. Don’t put their tasks off and wait until they get back. Figure out how to do it without them. If you struggle, that’s a clear sign you’ll be in for pain when they eventually leave for good and shows you what knowledge they need to disperse.

mcoliver · 3 months ago

Forced vacations are super common in the finance / wall st industry for this reason.

mcoliver commented on Japan Post launches 'digital address' system japantimes.co.jp/business... · Posted by u/jmsflknr

mcoliver · 3 months ago

Call me crazy but I want this for my digital profile. Let me register and login to apps and websites with an id that is a pointer to my profile where I can update my emails, phones, addresses, profile photo, website, etc.. of course the question is who is the owner of that service. Self host, block chain, public company, non profit, government. Tradeoffs with all of them.

mcoliver commented on A single line of code cost $8000 pietrasiak.com/one-line-o... · Posted by u/lordfuckleroy

mcoliver · 4 months ago

> Add special signals you can change on your server, which the app will understand, such as a forced update that will install without asking the user.

Ummm no. Even after this they haven't learned. Auto update check on app load and prompt user for download/update.

mcoliver commented on Show HN: A Chrome extension that will auto-reject non-essential cookies blog.bymitch.com/posts/re... · Posted by u/mitch292

mcoliver · 4 months ago

Love the idea. I wish chrome extensions had a more granular permissions structure and/or reminders/security checkups on installed extensions and their permissions.

As it is the content scripts manifest permission for https://*/* for content.js is always so jarring to see. For those that don’t know this allows the extension to run that script on every site you visit after clicking accept ONCE when you install the extension. That means it can see financial info, health info, legal info, your diary, etc…

Now this makes sense from a usability perspective (I never have to see a cookie banner ever again!), but the author could change content.js at any time and the extension would continue to run without prompting the user.

This is not an attack on you Mitch! It sure looks like you’re trying to provide value in this world rather than take it. Rather it’s an attack on Google’s extension security model I’m really shocked google has not taken a more careful and nuanced stance to protecting users from a security standpoint.

I write this as a fellow chrome extensions dev. I wish I had better more granular permissions structures to protect my users and give them more information about what I am requesting and why along with regular reminders so they can make informed decisions about what they want to share.