They did use “AI” but not an LLM. If they had, I am sure OpenAI and friends would be shouting it from the rooftops.

More than that I hope considering what it costs to make the thing.

I came in first place by a mile just holding the gas button. Not much if a “game” but I guess the elements are there.

If it were me, I would make an exit plan. Run all the numbers, how much you would need to survive a certain length of time, what the numbers would look like depending on how much risk you're willing to take, what you would do if things didn't work out. Plan it meticulously, and work toward it. This will give you something to look forward to and having options would become a reality. Then when the moment is right, pull the trigger if you'd like.

Why are the SVGs getting more detailed rather than just more correct than previous models?

Because people tend to like fidelity more than correctness.

It bugs me a little that "fidelity" has connotations other than "faithfulness to an original"---fidelity should be basically the same as correctness here!

That’s really not the highest fidelity interpretation of “fidelity.”

Fair, but correctness should be a necessary component of fidelity.

My dictionary writes: "precision * accuracy = fidelity".

If correctness would matter anymore, people wouldn't be using LLMs in the first place.

Native app vs what? A web app?

Off topic, but where do you find these brands to buy?

Flippa, Empire Flippers and to a lesser degree Quiet Light Brokerage

Were they wrong?

When I was a kid in the 90s, my grandparents never wanted to get cable television, despite watching a lot of local broadcasts. Their children (and grandchildren) thought they would truly enjoy it: more live sports, history documentaries, and so on. They thought it would be low quality trash.

As a birthday gift, my mother tried to give them a lifetime cable subscription so they could see what they were missing. When the technician from the cable company showed up at their door, my grandmother stared at him through a slit in the blinds and refused to let him in or otherwise acknowledge him. I pitied them, and we joked behind their backs about how stuck in their ways they were. (Writing this as an adult, I can't imagine why my mom would insist on trying to give them a gift that they had overtly rejected.)

Years later, my grandparents gave in to cable. We were right: they did enjoy watching more Big 12 football. But they also enjoyed watching endless hours of Fox News. They became increasingly isolated, paranoid, and overtly racist. I won't blame 100% of this change on Fox News, but their transition toward hate absolutely poisoned their relationships with most of the family. I don't think that's exactly what my grandmother expected when she refused the cable man on her birthday, but she was still right.

So your grandparents were caught in the 'Fox News' bubble and as a result of that you state they became 'isolated, paranoid, overtly racist and [hateful]'. Sounds dire...

Have you considered that it may be just as true that you are caught in another bubble - say the 'CNN-MSNBC/MSNOW-ABC-CBS-NYT-WaPo' bubble or something similarly bent and twisted? That as a result from that you have become in the eyes of those outside that bubble 'naive, gullible, overtly anti-western, suicidally empathic and disdainful of those with a different view', especially given that your grandparents are from a different generation which uses different words (and words differently) and has a different frame of reference? That to me seems more likely than that your grandparents have been turned to the dark side by watching cable television.

Which one is it? Bubbles are dangerous but not the Fox bubble?

I don't see how you get this from what I wrote. The grandparent poster only mentioned the 'Fox bubble', I made clear that this is not the only one and that it is likely he was caught in one of the other ones. I neither stated nor implied that it was the only 'non-dangerous' one, that is something out of your own imagination.

I can see now that my reading was uncharitable. Though I disagree with the last sentence of "not likely". Grandparents becoming FOX zombies is not a rare thing.

Their cutoff point for where technology stopped being good and exciting was prior to when this author thought technology was fun and exciting.

It’s a personal feeling. Once you get comfortable with the way the world is, you start wishing it would stop changing.

Perhaps people that are older have seen that sometimes new technology is not all benefit. You are trading something. Once you are old enough, and have seen it happen enough times, you start considering all the good and exciting things that have been traded away over the years.

It goes beyond that: what we call technology is inherently "abstraction of service", (ultimately all of which is related to boiling water for some reason???) and at a certain point too many layers of abstraction is more complicated than helpful in terms of reducing the amount of time spent interacting with the "work reduction layer".

Your grandparents complaint is essentially that "github is good, but writing tests, and using CI/CD is too abstract and complicated". Which is fair, especially if you aren't talking about something for intelligent people in specific. Compare ordering milk with a milkman vs. the modern way. Previously the loop was

1. call milkman 2. get milk & pay for next milk

now it can be a number of various paths (all of which are correct, confusingly!) to get milk delivered to one's door. Too much abstraction is no longer serving as a means of replacing work at this point, and managing the abstraction becomes a form of work.

That's the real complaint. Happy 2 hear ur thoughts about this 1.

Short answer is yes. Most grandparents resisted computers, internet, cellphones or online banking until the network effect left them with little choice but to participate. You also see them glom onto popular platforms (Faceboook, WhatsApp) and not experiment much with alternatives (Discord, Snapchat). Driven by the same effect, they're only there because that's where their families and friends are.

All the tech companies are trying to find data the others don’t have access to. That is one way they try to edge out the competition.

My biggest problem with Claude is that anything I mention it won't shut up about. Then it gets saved in memory and it will keep repeating it to me forever with weird random exposition.