I've started writing about my Improv journey recently, check out the link below
I'm also teaching a longform Improv course in Windsor starting in March. If you're around, I'd love to see you there
I was at a showing the night it came out
Sold out, people in costumes
Cheers when the title crawl hit
But when the final credits rolled you could hear a pin drop
Everyone trying to figure out what we just saw, but the reaction wasn't good
The true believers coped hard in the weeks after, "just wait for the next one"
But the shine was off star wars after that movie
To this day I haven't seen the next 2
Massive news: I was commissioned by @xai to create a short film in 2 days using only Grok Imagine 1.0 (stills and video).
So in honor of Groundhog Day, here it is: "Routine" a film about a man in a time loop in suburbia.
Thank you so much to the xAI team and @elonmusk for this opportunity!
If you're an AI video creator, you may notice that I've cracked character consistency in Grok Imagine with this project (check out the kitchen scene). I will do a follow up post explaining exactly how I did that (it was not just prompting).
While that is the modern narrative, it feels like a trap
Sure, trades are needed and hot now, but what happens in a few years?
An oversupply of new entrants willing to work for less to gain experience
If you can do it now, you're probably fine, but it feels like the start of a short lived bubble that's going to burst
Unfortunately, the "net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it" is no longer true
The Internet has become increasingly centralized, as we've seen with social media
X is a centralized platform that can be easily banned, and if Elon hadn't purchased it it would be extremely locked down today
We still need an open uncensored network that is easily accessible and that network has to have a large enough user base to be relevant
Otherwise, if Elon has a changed of heart or if he gives up on X, we could be in big trouble
Both examples you gave are outliers
While it's rare that your rejection will be recorded and posted, even the most successful men will get rejected more than they will get the date
So the man has to weigh:
Catastrophically bad outcome (unlikely) vs
Positive outcome (unlikely) vs
Negative outcome (likely)
In the the end the man asks, "is the juice worth the squeeze?"
And it seems many have decided the answer is no
No, you can't vibe code Salesforce, but you also can't sit down and build Salesforce traditionally either
Products like Salesforce have decades of iteration and incremental improvements that bring you to the current version of the product
The more interesting question is:
1. Can you vibe code the initial small scale version that Salesforce produced at the beginning
2. Can you then successfully iterate on it to expand it's capabilities like Salesforce did
I suspect the answer is No to both right now, but reaching that point would be a meaningful benchmark
@signulll When people say "ai will take jobs" they mean they will not be able to earn a living and will fall into poverty and homelessness
We don't know what the path forward would be if AI does eliminate large chunks of jobs without generating new ones and this has people concerned
@thekitze Same
I ended up coding because I had problems to solve and code was the means to solve those problems
Then I found bigger problems in teams and organizations and evolved to solve those problems
Some take the approach cited above
"I don't believe you"
Which makes no claim
Others make a definitive claim
"There is no God"
There is a subtle difference between the two and it often manifests in their behavior
Since atheists aren't organized like a religion, each uses their own interpretation when it suits them
It can also be a form of Mott and Bailey
Let's illustrate the difference
You tell me, "I believe there are aliens in our universe"
I might respond, "I don't believe you"
But that response is different from
"There are no aliens in our universe"
In the first, I'm not convinced, in the latter I am certain of the opposite
So when someone claims to be an atheist, you have to understand which claim are they making