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Comment on What are your memorable airport stories? in ~transport
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Comment on What are your memorable airport stories? in ~transport
HiddenTig Link ParentWhat do you do with all those stickers?What do you do with all those stickers?
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Comment on For those with criminal records, AI is breaking down barriers to employment in the US in ~society
HiddenTig (edited )Link ParentThe government should absolutely improve the process and proactively notify people who qualify, but I'm never going to err on the side of waiting for bureaucracy to solve a problem. Also, while...The government should absolutely improve the process and proactively notify people who qualify, but I'm never going to err on the side of waiting for bureaucracy to solve a problem. Also, while frontier models are always getting more expensive, the ones that perform at just high enough of a level to complete this work will only be getting cheaper.
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Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? in ~tech
HiddenTig LinkI feel for the author. I'm in software and work for a similar company which is being myopic and heavy handed in their AI first approach. I also feel that, while I cant speak to everyone's...I feel for the author. I'm in software and work for a similar company which is being myopic and heavy handed in their AI first approach. I also feel that, while I cant speak to everyone's situation, quitting is usually the wrong move (particularly right now).
Leadership will never truly understand the needs of those that report to them and this compounds up the chain.. we're destined to live in this world forever but we can adapt to it and be the voices that help steer and fix these problems. Yes, AI is dumping problems on our plates way faster than before, but they're actually basically the same problems we've always been dealing with.
My thoughts going through the author's specifics:
You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss.
Is it really a problem- who actually goes back and reads meeting notes? Plus, if there's something in there that you disagree which causes problems later I find it's much easier to say "No, I didn't say that, the AI messed it up" then it is to say "<coworker who took notes> misunderstood me".
A team lead adds an AI chatbot to a Slack channel. Anyone can tag the bot to answer questions about the company’s products. Coworkers tag the chatbot many times a day. You never see someone check that the bot’s responses are correct.
Does anyone check the human answers? Some will be right, some will be wrong/outdated. Continue to do what you need to do to get the right answers. This is not your problem.
An engineer adds 12,000 lines of code affecting your app’s authentication. They ask that it be reviewed and merged same-day. Another engineer enlists a “swarm” of AI agents to review the code. The code merges with no one having read the full set of changes.
This is nothing to do with AI, coworkers dumping massive changesets and then expecting quick turnarounds is a problem as old as software. The answer is establishing rules for how your code review process works and sticking to them. Point out these problems (e.g. resulting reverts) and deviations from best practices at your Retro or equivalent meeting.
A designer is tasked with exploring a new feature. They prompt an AI tool for an interactive prototype. Design crit is spent analyzing visual details in the generated prototype, with minimal discussion of core ideas, goals, or tradeoffs.
Would need specifics here but sounds like a process flow issue but also not your job?
One of your pull requests has been open for a few days. You ask other engineers to leave a code review. Minutes later, an engineer pastes a review that was generated by an AI tool. There are no additional thoughts of their own.
:O a lazy code reviewer?! Never! This same engineer is not going to put up a fight- dismiss the comment and move on with your day.
You point an engineer to the relevant section of a library’s docs in order to request a feature. They tell you that the feature request is not possible, and send a screenshot of their chat with an AI tool as proof.
That sucks. This ones genuinely a new problem and idk how to solve it yet. Maybe send a screenshot back asking the AI if you should walk or drive to the car wash?.
Documents and code are being generated faster than team members can review. You get the feeling that most people have stopped reading altogether.
Same as before- make code review processes and stick to them. No one properly read the docs before they were AI either.
Organization leadership has mandated that each person adopt new AI tools to “uplevel” themselves and their team.
Also sucks, also a problem, but.. play the game. I'm sure it's not the first time you've be asked to adopt tools/procedures/systems/etc that you disagree with or doesn't make sense. It wont be the last. Smile and nod and keep doing what works.
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Comment on You can vote on the design of the next Euro banknotes! in ~design
HiddenTig Link ParentIm confused. Why did they put pretend bridges on their money? Why get mad when someone makes that bridge? Were they afraid of showing bridge favoritism?!Im confused. Why did they put pretend bridges on their money? Why get mad when someone makes that bridge? Were they afraid of showing bridge favoritism?!
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Comment on My polish costs nothing in ~tech
HiddenTig Link ParentI think it's common for people who are not very good to still request and receive recommendation letters. The way I've seen this handled before is the language in these letters tends to be terse...I think it's common for people who are not very good to still request and receive recommendation letters. The way I've seen this handled before is the language in these letters tends to be terse and unpolished. Theres a subtext there that says I'm saying these nice things about this candidate but I don't really mean any of them. Maybe the default AI voice is that new subtext.
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Comment on I built another damn To-do app in ~comp
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Comment on I built another damn To-do app in ~comp
HiddenTig Link ParentYes there are many todo apps but this one is mine :) Thanks! I'll have a deeper look into those after work today. Question on this one My biggest pet peeve with modern software is clicking into a...Yes there are many todo apps but this one is mine :)
Thanks! I'll have a deeper look into those after work today.
Question on this one
Empty To-dos should auto delete.
My biggest pet peeve with modern software is clicking into a part of the app and having the thing you're targeting disappear out from under you. In this case if you had an empty to do item and then clicked an item below it the whole list would shift up. I would love to implement this but I'm not sure how to get around that.
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Comment on I built another damn To-do app in ~comp
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Comment on I built another damn To-do app in ~comp
HiddenTig Link ParentYesss Ive filled countless notebooks with this system of notes many years back. I hope you get some use out of it!Yesss Ive filled countless notebooks with this system of notes many years back. I hope you get some use out of it!
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Comment on I built another damn To-do app in ~comp
HiddenTig (edited )Link ParentI'll take a look at that bug, thank you! Yes to be clear this is not an open source project. Those commits are just an automated build and publish tool, not AI. EDIT: bug should be fixed, let me...I'll take a look at that bug, thank you! Yes to be clear this is not an open source project. Those commits are just an automated build and publish tool, not AI.
EDIT: bug should be fixed, let me know if it still gives you trouble.
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Comment on How are you different than you were last week? in ~life
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I built another damn To-do app
Hello! First, some context- I have a very particular way I keep track of my work and take notes throughout my work week. This is currently managed through an ever-growing list of Notion pages. And...
Hello!
First, some context- I have a very particular way I keep track of my work and take notes throughout my work week. This is currently managed through an ever-growing list of Notion pages. And Notion is great! It does a ton of stuff really well, but it's also suffered from a lot of feature bloat over the years and has just enough oddities to irk me on the daily.
So, I built a thing. I call it True To-do because it's fun to say and I'm okay at software and less okay at marketing. It is an opinionated daily work tracker with a lot of little features:
- You can set a standard template that gets auto-copied to certain days of the week
- Supports infinite nesting and expanding/collapsing of those nested items
- Unfinished work the from the previous day can be auto-copied to new days
- It has various tools like a data roll-up and data controls
- It supports loading itself as an offline desktop app (PWA)
- Has many configurable settings for making the interface go from full to minimal
- Dark theme!
It is also 100% free, has no tracking, no cookies, no ads, doesn't ask for your email, your data does not leave your device, and is pretty performant (better than Notion, at least). It was written heavily with AI, but not by AI - It was directed, reviewed, and corrected by me.
What it does not have is any kind of user account feature. Everything stays on the device and will not transfer between devices unless you manually export and import the data. Maybe I'll add support for that at some point, I'm not sure. It is also only okay on mobile/tablet- this app was really made for desktop.
Anyways, give it a play around. It was purpose built by me for me but love to share the things I make when I think others may get some use out of them as well. I welcome feedback / bug reports / suggestions / etc.
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Comment on How are you different than you were last week? in ~life
HiddenTig Link ParentIgnore me if you've heard this before.. But baby wipes will mess up your plumbing bad. Even the ones marked "flushable", just plain aren't.Ignore me if you've heard this before.. But baby wipes will mess up your plumbing bad. Even the ones marked "flushable", just plain aren't.
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Comment on Need advice about work in ~life
HiddenTig Link ParentYeah it has its ups and downsAnother excellent career is elevator repair
Yeah it has its ups and downs
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Comment on Hallucinate - Massively Multiplayer Online Rave in ~music
HiddenTig LinkThis kind of thing is the best the internet has to offer imoThis kind of thing is the best the internet has to offer imo
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Comment on Reddit will require you to be logged in to use old.reddit.com in ~tech
HiddenTig LinkI guess I'm against the grain here but I really don't care about this change. Reddits default subs have been awful for a long time now so on the rare times I browse I'm always logged in anyways.I guess I'm against the grain here but I really don't care about this change. Reddits default subs have been awful for a long time now so on the rare times I browse I'm always logged in anyways.
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Comment on If AI is sentient then so is ‘Age of Empires II’ in ~tech
HiddenTig Link ParentIf I understand correctly that's an evolutionary adaptation that's beneficial to us. So a being that is more complex than us I wouldn't think would necessarily have less of the unconscious hidden...If I understand correctly that's an evolutionary adaptation that's beneficial to us. So a being that is more complex than us I wouldn't think would necessarily have less of the unconscious hidden away from them, maybe they'd have even more to allow more focus on other, more important things.
To your point though, I guess It doesn't make sense to call myself "maximally conscious" without access to those parts of me. I'll have to rethink that.
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Comment on If AI is sentient then so is ‘Age of Empires II’ in ~tech
HiddenTig Link ParentConsciousness as a function of complexity is interesting. I consider myself maximally "conscious" but I have nothing to back that up. Theoretically something sufficiently complex could become more...Consciousness as a function of complexity is interesting. I consider myself maximally "conscious" but I have nothing to back that up. Theoretically something sufficiently complex could become more conscious than human? Is there a cap to this or does the level consciousness continue to scale with complexity to infinity?
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Comment on What about having an LLM teach you to code? in ~comp
HiddenTig Link ParentJust want to add that if you're in the Chat GPT camp there is the equivalent feature, "Study mode".Just want to add that if you're in the Chat GPT camp there is the equivalent feature, "Study mode".
Awesome!