Having a label for a recognized and observable human condition does not condemn it.
And it also doesn’t mean that we ought to medicate anyone with a label.
What it means is some people are able to potentially improve their lives by recognizing a pattern of behavior and educating themselves about strategies (including medication) that might help.
Honestly, I really appreciate this comment!
I am quite a fan of LLMs for coding, learning, brainstorming, etc.
But I’m also a musician, against AI slop media (who isn’t?) and of course most of the other negatives you cited.
It’s not like I’ve never heard the points you mentioned before, but I think you did a great job of assembling these ideas and presenting them in a sensible way… it’s legitimately made me far more empathetic to the AI haters and perhaps has even tempered my near-term optimism about AI.
I say near-term because I’m not so optimistic about AI in the medium- or long-term. And the short term may well be tiny.
I wholeheartedly agree that we’re in a time in tech that is unbelievably enabling and exciting. I’ve learned so much and built so much useful bespoke tools for myself over the past year and it’s only getting better.
I’m quite turned off by just how many grumpy people here have to shit on everything they possibly can.
It was nice to finally read a comment that is unabashedly positive.
I recently had a revelation when I made an extended qwerty midi controller app that permanently shows the states and functions of all keys including when modifiers are held.
It occurred to me that this is a wonderful way to design software: you immediately know the keyboard shortcuts because you’re already looking at them. I’m working on taking what I’ve built for the qwerty midi keyboard controller (which is built on hammerspoon) and making it just a generic interface for any kind of app.
If the end goal is navigating and controlling the app via keyboard shortcuts, so why not bake that into the design of the GUI itself?
One of the best Userscripts I ever made was for Amazon: It adds an explicit "results must include these search terms" input box as well as one to exclude results for particular terms.
Saves me SO much time when I have to find something on Amazon.
Have you considered making that into your own shopping website?
You don't need warehouses or delivery drivers - you can make it place an Amazon order to the customer's address through the customer's Amazon account. (All you have to do is ignore the fact that Amazon doesn't want you to ask for other people's Amazon passwords.)
I wore my original beloved AirPods Max for a walk one Edmonton winter day and they became a brick.
I found out quickly that it’s a well known design flaw with internal moisture build up, exacerbated by fluctuations in temperature.
Did they fix this known flaw that has ruined hundreds of people’s very expensive headphones? Nope.
Should have gotten AppleCare, but I didn’t know walking with them in the cold for 15 minutes would destroy them so easily.
I use wireless headphones most of every day. I used to buy IEMs with detachable cables so I could replace them when they inevitably broke. I don’t feel I was being careless at all. I don’t break anything else in my life. But my cables broke every 6 months or so.
I absolutely don’t miss wired headphones. The idea that wireless headphones aren’t superior is insane to me.
I think the one thing is battery degradation, but honestly, buying a new pair every 5 years is well worth the convenience of no cables in my mind. Especially headphones that switch well between devices are a big QoL upgrade.
I do wish all wireless headphones had a little jack for wired playback though, for one reason: instrument playback. Latency is absolutely unacceptable there; and it’s a shame I can’t plug my AirPods in. But I’m not surprised or angry at their omission; but on over-ear phones, it’s inexcusable.
What it means is some people are able to potentially improve their lives by recognizing a pattern of behavior and educating themselves about strategies (including medication) that might help.