Robin
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AI driver (without the hype). WordPress. Laravel. Dad, gamer, walker. Likes going far places in cold weather.
Edinburgh UK
Joined December 2008
A.I. is a force multiplier, not a replacement (In the right hands) For the past 10 years I’ve been building powerful Laravel apps and providing WordPress maintenance for clients. A.I. gives me the leverage to explore further, dig deeper and offer more powerful solutions. Crazy
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Going to see more and more of this as interests and creative pursuits are automated and packaged up into bitesize consumables.
Keep some of your childhood hobbies. For God's sake keep them. Don't monetize them. They're not for anyone else, just you. You're going to need them to stay sane.
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I had an argument with someone the other week about hobbies I’m interested in starting. They said “you should choose the one that you can monetize the easiest” and my heart filled with rage lol. Hobbies aren’t meant to be monetized. It’s for the love and the learning of it.
The bleakest thing about screens is how they’ve destroyed the concept of pleasure. People don’t dance anymore. They don’t read. They don’t have hobbies. If Big Tech has its way, there will be no more writing fiction or making music. Everyone is entertained and no one is happy.
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Getting real tired of AI hype now. More so than usual. They are very useful tools but, good grief, it's daily now that I see these things making mistakes that even a drunk junior intern wouldn't be expected to make. Feels like the hype has been diminishing lately anyway -
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Got that weird sinus thing after a cold where I can blow air out of my eye and that never fails to amuse me.
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(And not to say the soft problem isn’t worth thinking about, it’s deeply deeply fascinating and you’ve clearly put a lot of thought into it and I thank you for that!)
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@jaiyagill A few thoughts on this: - technical employees who can also TALK are going to become 100x more valuable (they are, though, very very rare...) - people want to connect with people, not companies - my deep belief is that these tasks are better handled by the business itself, rather
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Are boxes of Christmas cards not a thing any more? (Like the big packs of 20 charity cards) In Tesco and there was only a few sad looking boxes - far more individual ones. Do people just not do Christmas cards any more? (Or maybe they do and they were all sold out) I’ve always
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the van diagram of people who: get tech get people can explain complex things simply can make people care is TINY
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Working with Claude Code just constantly begging to screw up my filesystem in new and interesting ways
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@The_Sourkraut Eventually tech is going to drive everyone and companies back to fax and A4 binders for everything. Comms will be a series of pressurised tubes snaking through buildings. Genuinely - the world works in mysterious ways. I absolutely wouldn’t be surprised if a big manual/trade
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I know it’s cliche to complain about Chrome memory usage but c’mon 2 tabs open and 10GB used? What the heck? Been trying to use my laptop more as a work machine recently and it’s struggling with 16GB RAM Time for a Linux install potentially?
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Possibly the most visually stunning episode of TV I’ve ever seen
“My name is Manousos Oviedo. I am not one of them. I wish to save the world.” — Pluribus S01E07 “The Gap”, dir. Adam Bernstein, dop. Paul Donachie
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humans can see more shades of green than any other color and i won’t sit quiet until i witness every one of them.
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UK is geographically roughly the size of Florida in comparison, but in terms of latitude we’re more like Newfoundland!
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I’ve been thinking about this myself and realised that here in Edinburgh I’m further north than ~99.7% of Canada and USA population combined That’s quite something. I thank the Gulf Stream on a daily basis I don’t have to wear 15 layers to go outside!
My brain refuses to accept this map. Rome is actually north of New York, and Milan shares a latitude with Montreal.
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Past a certain age a man with an Xbox on his Christmas list can be a bad thing, believe me
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I don’t think there’s many real-world practical use cases for Gen AI but I’d have to admit I reckon Christmas-themed True Detective mashups are definitely on that list.
“I just want you to stop saying odd shit, like you smell a psycho’s cheer, or you’re in someone’s faded memory of a Christmas. Just stop.” “Well, given how long it’s taken me to reconcile my holiday spirit, I don’t think I’d forgo it on your account, Marty.”
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