It also sounds like people with little ability can use this argument as a way to say “look how difficult this is for humans”

While it’s just a “you” problem. Some folks have better skills, knowledge and comfort with difficult subjects. And that’s fine.

I have been going back some times to flickr and dropped insta, since it’s a crap place these days (like most of the big socials)

The elegance of flickr is just nice and browsing is fun.

I wonder if there are more sites like it.

Saw some other folks starting to use https://glass.photo

That looks really interesting! Ty for that link.

Welcome to the aesthetic world! In the western philosophical and certainly scientific discourse there has since centuries been this drive for objectivity and universals. This has led to great discoveries and thinking. But it’s not the only world, the aesthetic is all about the senses and your place as a subject. It usually invites relativism, sometimes nihilism if you can’t find your ground as an individual in a larger universe.

The world of beauty, art, peace, feeling states is worthy of discovery and like you say, it has a timeless quality.

That’s one good welcome! Even I feel welcomed and I have been hanging out in the music section for ages. Other than the music though I can relate to being a logical/rational person.

They try to make it feel like an “us” browser, but it just comes off as a corp trying to talk cool.

You have to walk the walk too Mozilla! Saying that as a FF for years.

The post yesterday about the teacher who gave students an Apple II and taught assembly was very enlightening and example of how to go forward.

I worked in a creative shop, so we sold a lot of colors of ink, paint, crayons etc.

It’s interesting to watch people trying to pick “red” when there is like a whole gamut of red. Not only that, but it depends on the lighting around as well. (Is it evening, day, what kind of lighting fixtures are there?)

Creatives usually have 10 kelvin white boxes for a neutral color experience. A bit like audio folks have calibrated monitor speakers.

Don’t know if this is an annoying response… but how about just going through the code and check and grade the quality yourself?

I could do, but the end goal is to scale this to 100x what I can do myself, and there isn't time to review all those changes. By attempting to answer the problem when it's tiny and I can still keep it in my head then I'll end up building something that works at scale.

Maybe. The point is that this is all new, and looking forwards I think it's worth figuring out this stuff early.

Fascinating

I also can’t wait for the time when few know how to code. Just like how many folks don’t know html from css when the homebrew website went away.

Their might always be llms, but the dependence is an interesting topic.

Look no further to be honest; look at older generation programming languages like COBOL and how sought-after good developers for that language are.

But I'm also afraid / certain that LLMs are able to figure out legacy code (as long as enough fits in their context window), so it's tenuous at best.

Also, funny you mentioned HTML / CSS because for a while (...in the 90's / 2000's) it looked like nobody needed to actually learn those because of tools like Dreamweaver / Frontpage.

The whole “you can make a lot of money programming in COBOL” is one of those myths that needs to die.

Even the briefest of Google searches show they make around the same as any other enterprise dev if not slightly less.

The issue with COBOL code is that it’s hidden. It’s mostly internal systems so little code available for training. HTML, TypeScript, JavaScript, C, etc, are readily available, billions of code lines.

Well, on the 2nd paragraph, I have no illusion they’ll figure out more as they are being trained. I am more thinking of the custodians (as coders turn into that)

Say you are a good coder now, but you are becoming a custodian, checking the llm work will slowly erode your skills. Maybe if you got a good memory or an amazing skillset it might be some time, but if you don’t use it, you lose it.

COBOL developers are sought after but still paid less than a grad doing crud. Is that the future?

A time when few know how to code?

I think that was about 10 years ago…

Something I was thinking about was a simple tip jar system. You can add credits to a tipjar system, and if you like a post, site, or whatever you can gift credits.

Completely gets rid of ads that nobody likes anyway.

You could maybe automate it say “if I spend more than 30 seconds on page, pay x credits”