Meh. Apple ads in settings is a nothing burger. Ads anywhere else is degenerate and another matter.
But I don’t get to finish the article for all the ads on the website. 1/3 of my phone was filled with a banner at the bottom. 1/8 video player, and then a sign-up screen covered all.
Enshitification world order will lead me to use the phone less. So there!
“In some of his works, it is evident one of Plato’s goals is to create a sense of puzzlement among his readers, and the dialogue form is being used for this purpose.”
What more puzzlement than to follow the hero into confusion and doubt, only to be lead out by the brilliance of his later unfucked arguments?
After coming back from a friends birthday party, I said to myself, I need to learn a few dance moves.
So I searched on IG, watched and liked a few simply from curiosity. Then the algorithm started sending me more, and more. It was wonderful.
Flip that and you’re Zelda. You look at one or several and you get more (Robin Williams gets clicks, don’t you know).
Eventually the number of recommended dance videos fell off. But by then I had followed a few, so men dancing still show up from time to time.
They say you’re not to read the criticism or comments if you’re a writer. I thought it was just because they’re depressing. But also engaging with someone else’s vitriol is like getting an infection and just recalling the most awful of words will reinfect your psyche.
All this to say it’s not just evil people making sickening content. There’s good things coming through that pipe—Remember to put the phone down and go outside once in a while. And prolly think before you share. Yeah. That too.
> “…talk about delays on the critical path and adjust the schedule accordingly.”
And self-imposed deadlines are the worst—not saying that’s the case here. And when your leadership sets the goals, you do your best. But fast, good, cheap; pick two.
And if the deadlines really are hard, then you should be actively managing the critical path from the get-go. The very existence of upstream critical path dependencies that, as the parent poster’s story demonstrates, weren’t even necessary in the first place. Which suggests that this heroic agentic quick fix was the proverbial pound of cure.
I’d even go so far as to speculate that perhaps agentic coding also steered people away from the ounce of prevention in the first place. Humans aren’t perfect either, but over the past couple years I’ve had to spend increasingly much time asking, “Why again are we creating all this unnecessary complexity?”
Actually it's something like a researcher-focused app that allows you to open Jupyter notebooks, code snippets, PDFs, right next to the chat window pane.
Let's say you're working on protein design and you want to view the 3D structure of the protein, you can have the agent build a pane for that in the app, and you can ask the agent to help customize it as well.
But I don’t get to finish the article for all the ads on the website. 1/3 of my phone was filled with a banner at the bottom. 1/8 video player, and then a sign-up screen covered all.
Enshitification world order will lead me to use the phone less. So there!
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