Simon Collins

Be a maker, not a taker | Build and use tools, don't be one | Try to be useful.

[Simon Collins @simoncollins]

@ForrestPKnight They won't build apps from scratch. They'll mix and match from composable agent skills and tool primitives. The platform will provide core skills that can be overridden or extended at the team or user level and skills will be shareable and version-able.

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@ashebytes This is really nice. I'm looking to build something like this for myself this year so it's interesting to compare notes. For me the daily schedule aspect will be critical since I suck at maintaining one. I love your idea of morning/evening rituals.

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@MarcJSchmidt Libraries like Prisma and Tailwind are abstractions for humans. AI does not need them. A lot of libraries are like that. There won't be any marketplace for libraries.

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@badlogicgames We wont be writing software but all the skills we learned from it are still applicable - just at the business orchestration layer - c.f. @Steve_Yegge's Gas Town which draws inspiration from Kubernetes and Temporal. We are just levelling up to a much higher level of abstraction.

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@ProtocolAka @p_ferragu So Tesla is building an entire production line and spending millions on it for something that doesn't exist? Got it.

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@illyism I would bet that most of that traffic is AI, not human, or at least will be soon. Either way, the cost of UI generation is exponentially trending to zero and AI doesn't need abstractions like Tailwind or even React. All UIs will be AI generated and on the fly. Probably by EOY.

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@ProtocolAka @p_ferragu Tesla's FSD is just one of their autonomy moats that others will need to match in order to compete. Which of them have the unboxed manufacturing process used for cybercab or its super efficient wireless charging? $/mile is the metric that counts - none will beat Tesla there.

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@ashpreetbedi This seems quite similar to Hindsight: https://t.co/cPcTobsKKe

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I remember going on this (called the Gravitron) in Melbourne's Luna Park. The operator sat in the middle controlling it.

One time I went on it the operator got a little too cocky and moved around the centre while it was still going. He moved a little too far and the gravity sucked him under the central railings and up against the wall.

Fortunately the thing was on a timer and the guy was only slightly bruised and battered with a torn shirt.

Lots of fun but not to be messed with.

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Elon said they would use geofencing and other strategies in Austin to minimise risk. That's not at odds with the "any road" narrative since the technology is ultimately scalable to any road and that's not an example of using Waymo-like HD maps. It's just a risk control strategy for successful rollout.

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@AbleArne @RobGrieves I don't think it requires a completely separate data set because the base model seems quite generalisable in the same way that we humans can switch between sides of the road without too much trouble . It would need some fine tuning though.

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@iMBitcoinB @serhii_be @shadcn @vladmoroz @evilmartians I'm guessing this is setup for Tailwind4 which uses OKLCH color pallete so if your project was boostrapped with earlier version that uses TW3 with HSB colors then you'll need to convert the tokens.

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@freychu @naval @gregisenberg Awesome, is there any feature in Ahrefs Lite that you think is a super useful feature (for directory building in particular) once you get past a certain level of experience?

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I like the aesthetic of bottom right the best but if you're trying to sell memories then I would use the photos in the bottom left option instead, but individually rather than together, in a slowly animating carousel that swipes between them and ends with the photographer as the final image.

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Looks nice! The only suggestion I would have would be to run this through a contrast checker such as the accessibility check in Lighthouse to make sure you have enough contrast between the text and background. In particular, the grey text on yellow in the menus probably could do with both making the text darker and making the background lighter or more desaturated.

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@levelsio LLM + tools + a goal

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100% agree. Soft skills and system design will become even more important.

For me it's exciting because of the opportunities it opens up but I can imagine it can be daunting if you're just starting out.

At the same time however, the tools for learning quickly have never been better.

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@saurabh_irt @excalidraw Excalidraw has this neat feature where it can import mermaidJS diagram markup which most LLMs are pretty good at outputting. Super useful for documenting your projects or for learning. E.g. using Grok.

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@charliedbtaylor No worries, look forward to seeing the final design.