The answer is self-evident.

The most pathetic of deaths as well.

“He automated his job so well the company doesn’t need him anymore.”

I'm a solo entrepreneur. If the company does well, I do well.

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

— George Bernard Shaw

The antidote to runaway hype is for someone to push back, not to just relent and accept your fate. Who cares about affording to. We need more people with ideals stronger than the desire to make a lot of money.

Sure, hype pushback is fine.

Collective good doesn’t necessarily mean the State, and not trusting the State doesn’t mean being an American-style right libertarian either.

It’s a common fallacy of performative US leftism that believes the world can be divided neatly into blue vs red.

Whatever passes for feminism these days is toxic and a far cry from the idealism and drive for equality that borne it.

These days it’s only social-media driven culture war of hateful men that blame all the problems of the world to women vs hateful women that blame all the problems of the world to men.

The way out is not “manosphere” or “feminism” but understand that 1) we are different despite the claims to the contrary and 2) all are deserving of respect and we need both to have a healthy society.

We won’t get there with DEI initiatives, female quotas and remaking movies with a ‘diverse’ cast, that’s just posturing and stoking the growing fires of culture war to the benefit of social media operators.

I wonder how the trans issue will work in this instance.

People who have "female" or "diverse" in their passport can be biologically male but are are not required to get the military permit.

Tangentially related; remember the much maligned Zed Shaw? Nobody talks about him any more. He's been doing some game dev streaming on Twitch, and I just found out he's got a 7 hour video on how to draw for complete beginners, which I am enjoying quite a bit actually: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLakoYhiWko

From what I understand of pixel art, it demands all the techniques of drawing on top of trying to create a recognizable shape with only a few pixels and colours. From your question, it sounds like you're jumping directly onto pixel art without a solid foundation on drawing techniques, and I'd suggest to focus there — at least that's what I'm doing with my personal learning path.

He's just an idiot doing it in public, because there are people generating hundreds of posts a day for years now without committing it on github under their real name.

> it has transformed my work […] to me writing the cool and complex things

> it's amazingly capable at that.

> It _is_ a hugely powerful tool

Damn, that’s what you call being allergic to the hype train? This type of hypocritical thinly-veiled praise is what is actually unbearable with AI discourse.

I don’t think it is controversial that AI tools are good enough at crud endpoints that it is totally viable to just let it run through the grunt work of hooking up endpoints to a service and then you can focus on the interesting aspect of the application which is exactly that service.

> Tan/AI built the website so that when a user visits, their browser makes 169 server requests for various assets totaling 6.42 megabytes in size. For comparison, the minimalist Hacker News homepage (also run by Y Combinator) makes seven requests for data totaling just 12 kilobytes.

Lisp failed in the previous AI winter because it was so damn efficient, when the C-suite just likes big stupid numbers. Tell Garry Tan you have a tool that generates 2 million lines of code per day and he'll probably give you a billion dollars on the spot.

(I hope one day he sets out to vibecode Hacker News 2.0 and he'll have to convince our mods to switch over. Oh, that would be so funny.)