@kepano Agreed its just not the visual part. But as far as principles go I never thought of Obsidian as weird. Your business model seemed weirder than your "File over app" principle for sure. iA Writer and a lot of other .md apps used the principle, without championing it as much as you.
Effort has been the determining factor for improvement. Offload your effort to machines and watch your progress plateau and drop. Millennia of cognitive evolution towards learning through handwriting and active recall aren't going to be replaced by machines in just a few decades.
you know how everything is made out of plastic and feels like crap but still technically works
we've been headed this way with software for a while but at least we used to be embarrassed by it
now people are proud of how much they don't care
@karpathy It would need a bottom-up revamp of the DevX. Audio is the better modality for programming with AI. Reading the code / text-prompting is the bottleneck in the current DevX. No amount of additional rectangles is going to fix that. We need code that's easy to comprehend as audio.
@elonmusk Inevitable!
It's like handing people F1 cars who have only ever driven bicycles, and hoping they will cover the distances much faster without accidents.
@shrav_10 A compressed mattress occupies less volume than an uncompressed one, but you can't sleep on it. Same goes for files. They are easier to store/ship while being compressed, but they need to be uncompressed before use. We keep them uncompressed to save compute-time.
Very little about software engineering has changed over past last three months.
A great deal has changed about coding, not unlike when we saw the rise of high order programming languages and compilers, the difference today being that the number of developers is far larger and distribution channels are such that the velocity and breadth of change is far greater.
The entire history of software engineering is one of raising the level of abstraction.