Cory Chainsman

Dad. Designer. Building UIs & workflows for training industrial AI vision systems

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

My kids are playing with little Lego F1 cars and I just spent ~2mins vibe coding a “lights out” sequence to start our races.

I never would’ve even thought to build this ephemeral toy without AI.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@mbateman No need to get hung up on what some dudes 250yrs ago thought. It’s cool to be patriotic now, in the present. America is great in many ways. I don’t give two shits what some wigged out dudes in the 1770s thought. Teach the patriotic moralism for its own sake.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

America was not “fully based on freedom.” Far from it.

~20% of the colonies’ population was enslaved in 1776 and the founders explicitly accepted that status quo.

~50% of the colonies’ population was women, who were legally prevented from participating in public life

America was only explicitly “free” for white landowning men, and it’s worth noting that at the exact same time you teach children the moralizing patriotism.

[Matt Bateman @mbateman]

One month until America’s 250th.

Here’s my closing script for our American Revolution unit, for 5- to 12-year-olds at Montessorium.

This is as morally didactic as I will ever be in a classroom.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

I don’t think you can find our modern concept of political freedom present in the beliefs of any of the founders. Thus the concept of a “founding ideology” mapping to modern political freedom is an anachronism. It simply did not exist in any of their minds in the way we think of “freedom”.

By your logic, people 250yrs from now could say “2026’s political ideology was to let the AIs marry each other.” That might be a popular belief in 2276, and that statement may spark reactions by us today, but it’s simply not on the table in our present debate. And it sounds wild to attribute it to us.

Likewise, no founding fathers in the revolutionary period advocated for the suffrage of black people or women. So if “freedom” includes the ability for all adult citizens to vote for their preferred candidates without fear of reprisal, then that “freedom” was not part of the “founding ideology”

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

It’s worth noting that the “actual full scope of the founding ideology” seems a historical anachronism given it was not practiced by most of the founders (49% of constitution signers held slaves when signing), and it was neither tacitly nor explicitly agreed to by many of them (eg the South Carolina delegation)

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@WillHavePeace @mbateman I will ignore your what-about-ism and point out the structural difference: non-landowning men were guaranteed the protection of the government as they attempted to become landowning men. The same cannot be said for the women or slaves of the time.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

Database design is UX design where your users are computers

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@nathan_covey Please show us flip phone Waze 🙏

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@gilbert I watched Toy Story 4 with my wife. It was my 2nd viewing and her 1st. I audibly gasped when I noticed a split diopter shot. My wife smacked me because she thought I had just ruined some plot line or anticipated some big reveal bc it was my 2nd time seeing it.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

I would love to generate photos of my kid’s birthday.

A photo is a tool to spark my memory of the event. I understand that the camera doesn’t work exactly like my eye. It doesn’t capture the vibe in the room. The smell of the cake. The joyful worn-out feeling of making my kid’s day special.

A photo sparks the memory of those things, which my brain then remembers (or re-imagines) in wonderful detail that the photo couldn’t actually capture.

If I have such a photo, that’s great! But what if I didn’t get a good photo that includes my kid’s grin looking at the cake?

If an AI can generate something to get my brain to do remember the feeling of seeing that smile, why not?

The resistance to this reminds me of folks who love beautiful moody photography but dislike when they learn a photographer edited the photo to represent the vibe they felt in the moment instead of the literal light that entered the lens.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

I looked over and saw my now-old wrench and felt less frustrated with my son. And I knew where my pliers were.

I walked upstairs and grabbed them from under his pillow. I didn’t even have to look.

Before completing my 2-second task, I ordered a new pair of pliers.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

My 4yo loves tools. He “borrows” mine all the time.

I went to get my water pump pliers for a quick 2-second task. They were gone, and I grumbled knowing my son had taken them somewhere.

Thinking about where to look, I remembered a similar situation from my childhood with my dad

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

I would later learn he got the old wrench from his dad as part of a set as a child.

His dad lived with us at the time, so maybe my grandpa instigated giving 4yo me a heavy metal object.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@benjitaylor My problem recently is that I'm at the table alone. Product just wants to do marketing, not strategy. and Engineering just wants to build something. anything. The table is empty for the taking.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@suekhim I'd like my kid to learn the idea of multiplication and division, and how they relate to addition and subtraction. I want her to have numeracy akin to her literacy, an understanding of the "phonemes" of math.

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

Plex is increasing their Lifetime Plex Pass price to $750 on July 1st.

I bought it at $75 in 2013. For the value I've gotten in the last 13 years, it's definitely been worth it. but maybe not 10x worth it.

https://t.co/TUTBXFIjw0

[Cory Chainsman @corychainsman]

@peduarte Would love a way to paste in a different order than I copied.