people don’t realize that the majority of toilets go unused all day
imagine a future where your toilet can go out into the world and make money for you
imagine renting out your self driving toilet to your neighbours
If you want to know what giveaway LLM design is, this is it: thin colored borders, gradients, glow effects, too many different font sizes, small fonts too small, inconsistent padding and alignment (especially vertical).
Not a dunk on @zeeg he’s being transparent about it. And he’s a good AI driver and good developer in general. But using this moment to show people how obvious this is.
I strongly believe there are entire companies right now under heavy AI psychosis and its impossible to have rational conversations about it with them. I can't name any specific people because they include personal friends I deeply respect, but I worry about how this plays out.
I lived through the great MTBF vs MTTR (mean-time-between-failure vs. mean-time-to-recovery) reckoning of infrastructure during the transition to cloud and cloud automation. All those arguments are rearing their ugly heads again but now its... the whole software development industry (maybe the whole world, really).
It's frightening, because the psychosis folks operate under an almost absolute "MTTR is all you need" mentality: "its fine to ship bugs because the agents will fix them so quickly and at a scale humans can't do!" We learned in infrastructure that MTTR is great but you can't yeet resilient systems entirely.
The main issue is I don't even know how to bring this up to people I know personally, because bringing this topic up leads to immediately dismissals like "no no, it has full test coverage" or "bug reports are going down" or something, which just don't paint the whole picture.
We already learned this lesson once in infrastructure: you can automate yourself into a very resilient catastrophe machine. Systems can appear healthy by local metrics while globally becoming incomprehensible. Bug reports can go down while latent risk explodes. Test coverage can rise while semantic understanding falls. Changes happens so fast that nobody notices the underlying architecture decaying.
I worry.
Took me years to realise Albert Popwell is in almost as many Dirty Harry films as Clint Eastwood… four out of five.
And he’s a different character every time… a bank robber, pimp, militant leader and finally Harry's friend. Eastwood called Popwell his, "good luck charm."
In INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE, Spielberg stages the perfect “handoff”: young Indy puts on the fedora, and the film smash‑cuts to Harrison Ford lifting his head into frame years later.