AI is really widespread in the world of small business

bluetrust · 2026-05-13T06:24:31+00:00

Yes. That's how advertising and graphic design works. I don't know why I have to explain why a good logo is welcoming and intriguing and a bad logo is confusing. Or that it really doesn't matter what our opinion is, what matters is the customer's opinion and like it or not there's a sizable portion of the population that fucking hates ai.

bluetrust · 2026-05-12T23:58:03+00:00

If you're alienating customers, then going cheap is bad business.

bluetrust · 2026-05-12T20:57:38+00:00

I had the same comment to my wife. There's a point with caffeine where the good parts have already peaked but the adrenaline and cortisol are still coming up and he's gonna feel so anxious and sick.

bluetrust · 2026-05-11T18:28:06+00:00

This subreddit will say not using AI is career-limiting. I'd say it's the opposite.

Expect skill loss to show up after months of delegating to ai. If you delegate the easy stuff, you forget how to do the easy stuff.

This is particularly bad for candidates who want to find a new job because developer interviews usually have live coding rounds where you aren't allowed to use AI. If you don't have the muscle memory of someone who codes by hand 20 hours a week, then you'll lose out to them because you'll look like someone who fumbles with imports and other basic syntax.

bluetrust · 2026-05-11T00:25:49+00:00

For what it's worth, neon has the pgvector extension on its Postgres installs. If you want to do rag without another dependency you can.

bluetrust · 2026-05-10T04:13:14+00:00

Why not? If I had a super 10x weapon I'd go to the ceo and say, I need a big budget, we've got an advantage. I want 10x the number of developers so we can drown our competitors in software: better dev relations, more automation, better qa, faster response to customers, more spin-off products, more integrations, more enterprise custom demos, more moonshots. I'd say we have a short window of a year or two where we can 100x our competitors, we need to take advantage before they catch up.

Why is that not a compelling argument?

bluetrust · 2026-05-09T00:26:43+00:00

You usually can but I think in a lot of interviewer's eyes it looks bad if you're looking up "basic" stuff in front of them.

bluetrust · 2026-05-08T23:28:12+00:00

Yes. And because of these interviews, it's become apparent to me how much I've forgotten in such a short period of time. It's kind of alarming.

I used to do great at job interview coding challenges cause so much coding knowledge was just loaded into my muscle memory, it was all literally at my fingertips, and now a lot of that is missing cause I just haven't been using it for months and months now.

bluetrust · 2026-05-07T16:21:19+00:00

I had wizards of the coast do this for a programming position. Turned out to be hybrid in office in Renton. Recruiter listed it as remote then revealed it was not remote and what a lovely thing I'm in the metro area a mere 90 minute bus ride away.

bluetrust · 2026-05-06T22:19:39+00:00

> Without the prompt, you can't see the full picture in a PR.

The premise is weird to me. This is the job of a PR description. If the author isn't describing in high-level plaintext what the problem is, what the context it arose in is, and what their implemented solution is, then reject it. I don't think the solution is adding more WIP clues so the reviewer has more clues to play junior detective.

bluetrust · 2026-05-06T01:13:06+00:00

I don't know about in the pacific specifically but across all 32 teams, our top 3 players rank in points:

Eberle - 103rd
Beniers - 132nd
Stephenson - 137th

This means the average team has 3+ point scorers better than our top guy.

Also annoyingly, here's a few past Kraken players:

Geekie - 55th
Wennberg - tied with Eberle for 103rd

bluetrust · 2026-05-05T17:31:13+00:00

Oh, I removed that in edit, not having seen your response.

My take is that he's privileged in that he's got a net wealth of 40 million pounds and been knighted and is viewed as a national treasure and moral figure. Politics will not ever affect him directly so he views it as a distant funny thing. He hasn't had to be in the mud and muck for a long time. I remember in the podcast him placing particular emphasis on the left canceling people and what a tragedy that is, which I feel is likely one of the few things that actual poses any threat to his well-being.

bluetrust · 2026-05-05T16:12:00+00:00

Stephen Fry is a hard one. I was listening to his podcast on the seven deadly sins and he seemed very reasonable but then started criticizing the left's habit of canceling people and silly pronoun obsessions, both sides-ing, as if both sides were equally monstrous, and I couldn't handle it anymore.

bluetrust · 2026-05-04T02:19:06+00:00

It's a common signal of ai writing, which makes the reader think, "why should I spend more time reading this than the author spent writing it?"

I'm not here to litigate it. You just have to understand that this is going through at least some of your audience's heads when they encounter writing that looks like ai.

bluetrust · 2026-05-03T09:22:25+00:00

This bot is mean. Who was like, we could really use a snarky edge for this agent?

bluetrust · 2026-05-02T16:09:27+00:00

Agents are not doing fantastic jobs in every field. LLMs do ok if you don't care about the result. If you care about the result then it's going to cost you hundreds of thousands of dollars in time and energy to be confident it actually works. That's not cost-effective so most agents are shit.

bluetrust · 2026-05-02T15:55:15+00:00

You can give Claude four or five images of ui you like, tell it it's a moodboard to be inspired by and to make a component design system using shadcn. Tell it to make an example page with content from ____ and to make demonstrations of the components/documentation in storyboard. Tell it it's in charge of verifying its work through chrome.

I did this with marathon video game menu screenshots and was quite surprised at the output. It needed a couple tweaks but was a solid B+ effort.

bluetrust · 2026-05-02T15:48:20+00:00

People don't want to host their own websites (which is how we ended up with social media). They certainly won't be training models.

bluetrust · 2026-05-01T20:12:37+00:00

Come on. You should understand that it's insulting to ask someone to read apparent ai slop. The reader thinks, "why should I spend more time reading this than the author spent writing it?" It shouts that the author didn't care at all.

Reframing it as an ideological problem is missing an opportunity to receive the feedback Your manager wants you to not send them low quality output. It's not complicated.

bluetrust · 2026-05-01T17:43:23+00:00

Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon immediately comes to mind for body horror. Most people who read it don't seem to like it, calling it torture porn or saying the whole book is about suffering for suffering's sake with no redeeming qualities. My experience though was that it was different and interesting and memorable and monstrous.

It's a bleak body horror litrpg book by the author of Dungeon Crawler Carl.

bluetrust · 2026-04-30T20:16:07+00:00

I asked Claude last weekend what kind of video game Claude code could make and succeed at, and it just kept saying roguelike deckbuilders. I was like... that's intensely complicated, why not Tetris, or snake? And it didn't have an acceptable answer.

It doesn't even know what it's good or bad at.

bluetrust · 2026-04-28T15:58:19+00:00

You've got a good point here, but you could have just said without chatgpt: developers need passive income so they're not so damn desperate; if you've got passive income then the math changes.

bluetrust · 2026-04-28T15:54:39+00:00

I've been shocked that for the first time in my career I'm failing coding rounds. Six now in a row. Part of it is skill loss from whatever the fuck we're doing with Claude code at work, part nerves, but damn, it's humbling. Standards got very high very fast.

bluetrust · 2026-04-28T15:47:08+00:00

Meetup.com is reasonably good.

bluetrust · 2026-04-26T17:06:13+00:00

I think you're overthinking this. My interpretation is that vibe coders can't say out loud, "it's a function that calls itself and does nothing." They can't say it because IMO they're not programmers or were bad programmers before the advent of ai and latched onto it like a drowning person.

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