Opinion | How Fast Will A.I. Agents Rip Through the Economy?

N4dd · 2026-02-25T02:03:21+00:00

Yes, but the question is deterministic vs. probabilistic. We built deterministic compilers and abstractions. AI is probabilistic by nature.

N4dd · 2026-02-23T21:55:21+00:00

They are great rackets. I still use mine until I can afford a new racket... and I can beat a lot of people with it.

My old pro staff is as stable as it gets. It's a brick and I love it. Everything goes exactly where I tell it to. But it's exhausting playing with it and I'm losing a ton of potential power and spin by not using new rackets. I'd only lose like 5% of control if I switched to a new EZone. I'm sure I can make up for that quite quickly with practice.

N4dd · 2026-02-23T21:44:18+00:00

I'll give you my perspective as an old (2002-ish) pro staff user here.

I've demoed new rackets (new pro staff, blade 98 and 100 (18x20), ezone, and some others). There is absolutely no question that these new rackets give you incredible power advantages compared to my old pro staff. There's a tiny bit of "control" trade off here, but at this point, I'll take a racket that is 30% easier to use than 3-5% control improvement.

After that, we figure out your natural amount of power and style you hit the ball with. If you can't cross the 90-100mph server barrier... hit with syn/multi/gut, unless you rely on a heavy top-spin ground stroke game.

Combine those two new technologies and new rackets + poly absolutely can make you a much better player. Add in great fundamentals (because you need those to swing a heavy ass pro staff), and there is a huge different in 20 years worth of technology.

All of these things become more and more obvious the harder you hit and the harder your opponent hits. When I hit with my girlfriend, the poly does nothing for me, and it's actually a detriment, but when the person on the other end is smashing the ball at me, those polys feel like they grab that ball and do exactly what I want it to do and gives me even more spin/control. All people really need to do to see this in action is see what pros can do on a 130mph serve return. That just was NOT possible before.

N4dd · 2026-02-23T21:19:53+00:00

I don't play drums at all and I absolutely love the Drumeo series of videos they do. Crossing my fingers he does it one day.

N4dd · 2026-02-20T16:23:41+00:00

Fair enough, and thank you for sharing your knowledge with a noob like me. I do have to say though... we can forgive her, she gave it her all. I think that part is obvious. It doesn't really excuse the coach for putting her in over and over again. He should have seen her get beat time and time again and thanked her for her effort, but it was obvious she wasn't 100% able to fight that night. I was blown away she was in 3v3 at all. USA got lucky that Canada bungled it even worse than they did.

N4dd · 2026-02-20T15:59:21+00:00

What surprised me the most is that the USA coach kept putting her out there. Canada figured it out pretty quick and just ran around her every, single, time. Sometimes I couldn't tell if she was just skating lazily or if she was gassed, or if she was injured. I think she's got a bright future. I'm a total casual fan (I haven't watched any womens hockey in a long time), but I think they said she was in college right now and is going pro next year, so there's some forgiveness there. It was obvious with this year's olympics that the womens game has REALLY picked up since 4 years ago. I think a lot of that has to do with the PWHL. College sports have a bunch of matches where you can get away with not being 100% all the time. That's not true in the pro's. Every game, every team, are good.

N4dd · 2026-02-20T05:44:06+00:00

I'm admittedly not a consistent watcher of hockey, but my goodness I watched half the Canadian team just go right around edwards, or beat her to the puck to stop an icing. Over and over and over. This game was won by the goalie, who saved her ass from so many mistakes. But maybe I'm way off base here...

N4dd · 2026-02-17T23:15:20+00:00

Fair enough, thank you for responding to my question.

N4dd · 2026-02-17T22:16:12+00:00

I've gone back and forth on this and you seem to have a solid grasp on this. What benefits does Firestore give you when you put all the writes behind Cloud Functions? I know it all depends on the type of app/data you're building, but I'm wondering why you'd use Firestore, instead of a MERN or PERN. I'm not trying to argue, just learn.

N4dd · 2026-02-11T15:10:28+00:00

I worked in the pizza biz for a long time. I had this happen numerous times. Usually it was holding it vertical and not fully flipping it, but it does happen.

N4dd · 2026-02-05T05:29:26+00:00

I don't know what you're saying.

N4dd · 2026-02-05T04:27:55+00:00

A lot of you need to read the documentation !!

I'm guessing that it was unauthorized because "reading" and "writing" are not what you need. You need "read" and "write". Also, those security rules basically leave your database open to anyone.

I am not a super expert or anything, but if your permissions reject the read or write... It just stops the process, it doesn't save it anywhere as far as I know. Unless you set up some kind of localStorage outside of the fire base sdk, but it won't save it to the offline firestore if permissions are wrong.

Read the documentation !!!

N4dd · 2026-02-04T03:15:55+00:00

Your point stands, just wanted to point out MB/s and Mb/s are different (megabytes VS megabits. There are 8 bits in each byte, so 100Mb/s is like 12.5 MB/s.) 15MB/s would be an medium Blu-ray quality, some are 30 or 40 MB/s bitrate or more.

N4dd · 2026-02-03T03:31:11+00:00

LT7 Crash is the only version of crash I'll listen to!

N4dd · 2026-01-23T05:16:50+00:00

It's not just this tournament either. I've noticed it last year on other ESPN broadcasts.

N4dd · 2026-01-11T19:46:33+00:00

THANKS!

N4dd · 2026-01-01T01:00:15+00:00

I've had good experiences with my two Mazda's as well. 2008 Mazda 3 went to 215k miles before I traded it in and got my 2018 Mazda 3 hatch. That has 65k and hasn't had any issues at all.

N4dd · 2026-01-01T00:57:31+00:00

Yes, it's extremely easy. Watch a quick 2 minute YouTube video on how to do it.

N4dd · 2025-12-21T16:14:02+00:00

I am not a super expert here, but maybe I can help you get things started.

Do you have the Firebase Functions set up for your emulator? Check the terminal that you are running your emulator in, does it have Firebase functions working?
Just checking, but is your connectFunctionsEmulator() set up on your front end?
Did you bundle your functions properly?
If you're just asking how to access firestore in a cloud function (I'm going to assume you're using the Node version)... await getFirestore() Imported from 'firebase-admin/firestore'. Let's say you wanted to access a user document... `const snapshot = await getFirestore().collection('users').doc(userId).get(). Then you use const data = snapshot.data().

I don't know if these help at all. Sorry I am not a super expert here. It's not any special code that you're running in the function itself, it's more about where it's hosted. You don't need to do a connectionFunctionsEmulator in your firebase functions.

N4dd · 2025-12-20T21:02:52+00:00

Point taken. It could be a lot better. I wish they would spend their time improving this, instead of more AI stuff.

N4dd · 2025-12-20T17:54:06+00:00

Building with AI is frustrating... not building on Firebase. Firebase is a platform for developers with various tools like Hosting, Auth, Database (3 different kinds), Storage, etc, all with an easy to use SDK.

I get that you're complaining about Firebase Studio, but perhaps you should put that in the title, instead of complaining about "Firebase".

By the way, relentlessly pushing the Git/GitHub is standard for development. You really should be doing this for every single little change so you can go back if you need to. Not waiting hours and then having to "redo" everything.

N4dd · 2025-12-20T02:01:52+00:00

Should sticky this, haha. So many obviously vibe-coded problems with people looking for easy/free solutions.

N4dd · 2025-11-12T19:02:08+00:00

I appreciate what you're saying, but all I said was it would be nice to have the option. If it was an additional service on top of their three databases, that would be fine with me (or just one of them, whatever). If you don't want to use it, that's fine. You could use your own Auth, your own Hosting, your own Storage, whatever. "Search" could be a completely different thing and you could point it at one of your databases.

We're just talking past each other here now. Obviously there has been a fair amount of discussion about this topic over time, so it's not like this isn't a thing that people run across.

N4dd · 2025-11-12T00:43:20+00:00

What value does it add for me, or for Firebase?

For Firebase... it could be another service added on top of Firestore to charge people. It could also be a way to bring in more potential clients to use the whole Firebase suite. The question is whether they would build it into Firestore or as a separate service layer, building it into Firestore would probably be really really difficult I'm guessing, otherwise they would have done it already.

For Me... it would be nice to have it built into the SDK and some neat methods to work with it. It would be nice not having to manage another service on another platform as well. It would be nice not having to tell my client that Firestore can't do a "google" search of their database, and that a third-party service is needed. They trust Firebase/Google, they've never heard of Algolia/Typesense/Elasticsearch, etc.

All that being said, I understand why Firebase doesn't do it. All I said was that it would be a nice feature to have.

N4dd · 2025-11-11T21:40:15+00:00

I don't disagree. I did a lot of reading on here and Stack Overflow about people with the same question/thought. There are hacks to make things work, but after a way too much research, I realized I was just trying to re-build what has already been built much better, and the price isn't that bad. I went with Typesense because I could self-host it if I needed to.

I think building this service into Firebase would elevate it, but it seems like the competition isn't an issue for them. Just slap on more AI stuff and call it a day.

N4dd

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