i have been floated

I always said that I thought AI was going to "democratize" creative pursuits so that those who do not have the ability to make art can make art, and so on. But I don't think I fully understood until now just how deeply that will run. I've tended to pride myself on my overall passion for creating, my ability to actually finish projects, to ship. A lot of people don't ship, for whatever reason. I could speculate, but chances are if you're reading this, you're a person who has some project they abandoned part way through, maybe even over half way through. Why'd you abandon it?

Well, with AI by your side, those blockers will likely be a thing of the past. Everyone who has a great idea can ship now, and pretty easily. They can very quickly add hundreds of features to whatever it is (which is a new problem, in a new dimension, for all of us to learn how to deal with together) and ship all day long. If you thought there was a deluge of to-do list apps already, good lord, just wait until you see how many to-do list apps with advanced artificial intelligence driven heuristics to track your mood level throughout the day so it can recommend specific tasks to you when you are most likely to do them and it can even begin to predictively create tasks for you after learning your routines–there will be about 1,000 of these, maybe 10,000 of them. Every single wacko who thinks their workflow is the second coming of Christ gets to ship now. In the past they had to write self-help books detailing their pen-and-paper organization systems, and hope it took off randomly.

And, you know what, it's not like they don't deserve to get to ship. I mean, everyone's got the right to express themselves, at least if I was in charge that's the way it would be. But this basically describes my own minor AI reckoning, which I've been successfully pushing off by embracing, embracing, embracing. So... yeah. The fact that I ship more often than most no longer makes me particularly interesting. And even though I can ship with AI, I'm still attracted to simpler, basic projects. My workflows in life are simple. I see a to-do, I do it, I check it off. What more do I need? So if I were to make a to-do list app, how could I compete with aforementioned 10,000 AI-powered emotion tracking to-do list journaling apps? (Since I last mentioned these apps, they've all vibe coded in a journaling function.) I don't care about that stuff, so I am not going to spend my time building it. Now, suddenly, that's a serious disadvantage. Probably? Okay, it already was, I guess.

99.9% of humans have so much untapped potential, it's not possible to be human and not experience some twinge of fear at the idea that there's going to be a lot more creativity pouring into the world, sucking up all those precious eyeballs–and those eyeballs are the currency of the world, and not just financially, but emotionally, too. So many of us have traded community for an audience, every interaction online is just us selling ourselves to the crowd, begging to get even the smallest taste of going viral so that we know we're worth something. How do we stand out when anything that made us unique becomes a commodity accessible to anyone and everyone?

Boy I hope all those Trump supporting dipshits I used to hang out with are just so happy and overjoyed at the current situation. I can only imagine the mental gymnastics they must be going through to rationalize their utter stupidity.

I love AI or whatever but whenever there's a feature that goes "the AI will take direct control of your computer" I'm immediately like "nope, no thanks." I don't think I will ever give an AI unfettered access to my computer. Claude Code already has too much access but because I trust its tooling to keep it restrained to its current folder, and I don't just sign off on any ask to run a command without checking it, I feel safe. But I'm probably already in a foolish position.

well i just lost a friend who said AI is morally and ethically wrong on a fundamental level, and that anything i make with the help of AI tools has no value, so that sucks. is this what it feels like to support the wrong political party these days??

what's funny about it is that they seemed unaware of the fact that saying my AI-assisted output has "zero value" could be seen as offensive. then when I pointed out most of the internet in a few years will be running on AI generated code, all the services we use will be AI generated, they said "and those have no value either, only to the shareholders"... uh... what about the people who use those services and derive, uh, value from the services........ and that's why they use the services........?

anyway, sad that anti-AI brainrot has stolen a friend from me. it was a slow build.

amazon said 'rate 6 products and we'll tell you a joke' so i rated 6 products and then the joke appeared for a split second and vanished before i could read it. not sure i will ever recover from this disappointment.

I think the thing that annoys me about discourse around Crimson Desert at the moment is that the game literally just came out and there is so much content in the game that likely no one has experienced yet, that no one can have a genuine opinion on the entire experience of playing the game. But yet people are waving opinions around like objective fact. It’s annoying. Whatever. Social media is annoying, it has destroyed discourse around anything, in both directions, negative and positive. Nothing can just be accepted for what it is.

Every time I pick up my phone in here, I start freezing to death. Holy shit it’s cold in a conveyer belt sushi restaurant.

Okay so first up Crimson Desert doesn’t suck. It’s rad.

Secondly, I’m hitting 200 lifetime plates today at Kura Sushi. This is a milestone. I may not have eaten ~20 of those plates but we’re gonna just count them as mine.

I am pretty hyped for Crimson Desert. I hope when it comes out in ~2 hours that it doesn't suck!!!

AI psychosis or otherwise negative effects people experience from using AI is such a huge problem we haven't even begun to see the ramifications of. I already know a handful of people who have undoubtedly suffered negative effects to their personality and mental well-being after becoming obsessed with AIs. Most terribly there's a guy I know who was a really good writer, but he's clearly leaning on AI to write everything for him and his unique voice has completely vanished. It's a tragedy. Sometimes it's more minor, like when a bozo suddenly thinks all of their bozo ideas are actually fantastic because an AI has glazed them into delusion. But then sometimes it causes someone to go fully off the rails into raw delusion, usually delusions of grandeur about their capabilities, so basically the bozo problem but just mixed with neurodivergence or mental illness, so it starts to seem a little more schizophrenic. Ugh. I love this technology but it's like feeding methamphetamine to children who've never even had sugar before.