patchorang's comments

This has been exactly my experience too. I switched from Spotify to Plex, but discovered there really isn't a music focused desktop player. So I vibe coded one, exactly how I want my music player to work (albums not playlists/tracks as the central item). I was so happy with my desktop app, I built a mobile version to use instead of PlexAmp. There are some bugs I'm ironing out, but they are both I've stopped using PlexAmp and Spotify entirely.

I very much like the no LLM output in communication. Nothing is worse than getting huge body of text the sender clearly hasn't even read. Then you either have to ignore it or spend 15 minutes explaining why their text isn't even relevant to the conversation.

Sort of related, Plex doesn't have a desktop music app, and the PlexAmp iOS app is good but meh. So I spent the weekend vibe coding my own Plex music apps (macOS and iOs), and I have been absolutely blown away at what I was able to make. I'm sure code quality is terrible, and I'm not sure if a human would be able to jump in there and do anything, but they are already the apps I'm using day-to-day for music.

Making hardware synthesizers, I have a CS degree and took a could EE classes in school. But I have no idea where to begin

Yesterday, I gave ChatGPT links to three recipes and told it to make me a grocery list.

It left off ingredients. The very gentle singularity…

"As consumers begin to use AI agents to do their shopping..." are people actually doing this? Has anyone here done this?

Maybe a naive question but I don't really understand the why of this? Why do I need ChatGPT in Apple Intelligence? Shouldn't Apple Intelligence just do what it's asked? Is that Apple saying it's Apple Intelligence isn't that good? Is this some business dealings I don't understand?

It sort of parallels setting a default browser on your phone. Do you want to use Safari or Chrome? Do you want to use Apple Intelligence or OpenAI? But that's really not what it is, because everything is still funneled through Apple, then to OpenAI.

I don't get it.

I love that they have affilate links in the article for a product that "wasn’t built for this world".

I think this problem is even worse than just ghost jobs.

My partner is currently looking for a new job. Two or three times now, they’ve completed the whole interview process, gotten great feedback. Then they are ghosted for 2-3 weeks and the company comes back and says “sorry we decided not to hire for this role”. It’s utterly exhausting.

I do think when the interviews started, they had intentions to hire. (My partner knew people at the company and was recommended). But then for whatever reason during the hiring process, the job goes away.

The constant stress of potentially being laid-off at any time over the past three years has been exhausting.

Not saying the SearchGPT will or will not be accurate, but this demo was certainly made in After Effects. Who knows where the copy came from.

I've been working as a product designer for the last 10 years, but for a few years before that I was a software engineer. I've been interested in moving back towards the technical side of things. It seems that role, and what is described in this article, would often be called a "design engineer".

However, I don't quite understand what the role of a design engineer is. If a PM is the "what", design is the "how", and eng is the implementation. Where would a design engineer fall? I'm sure it is very much a spectrum, but I'd be interested in hearing from some folks who have filled this role.

Are you focused on the "how", but using code to achieve that? Are you focus on the "how" and it simply turns into the implementation? Are you focused on the implementation, but with the background and skills of a designer?

There are many chrome extensions that remove shorts.

Designers are pretty good at siloing themselves. I worry this may further silo them as the rest of the business will continue to use PPT.

Designers frequently express frustration about "not having a seat at the table." It's going to be tough to influence the business when using a different tool than everyone else.

Edit: PPT or Google Slides* My point was more about using the tool that the rest of the business is using.

If anyone can comment on good alternatives for After Effect, I'd be interested to know.

I went to college in Austin, and I feel like they do this decently well.

Sort of off topic question. But how would you get into the type of work that uses this tool? I've always thought this type of work would be interesting, but I have no ideas where to start. What are the job titles? Fraud Analyst? Thanks!

@ntnbr, the state capitol is also a very good spot for large capture the flag. We played there a few times in college. I remember it being more or less symmetric too.

I have a very similar history as well, so jumping in. You've probably heard of the artist, John Frusciante. But probably not the album, Maya.

The guitarist for RHCP is making the best modern IDM.

Cooking sounds like a nice application, but as soon as the headset steams up/get condensation on the glass it will be quite annoying. I can't imagine cooking in ski goggles.

They are not. If I was interviewing somewhere (I work as a UX designer) and they were still on Sketch, that be a pretty big red flag for me. Using Sketch today would be like using Illustrator during the Sketch era.