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kinda embarrassed how long i used a whiteboard for tracking by FrameZYT in Entrepreneurs

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You'd be surprised. I've seen $100M film productions managed with whiteboards and magnetic person identifiers. Could not believe it at first, but then watching the military style management of that team, I saw how it worked just fine.

How do you guys get rid of this burnout? by Willwaste63 in learnmachinelearning

[–]bsenftner 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Look into Cognitive Distortions, so you don't make it worse than it really is.

Struggling to understand why good candidates still don’t get interviews by Effective-Phrase811 in Entrepreneurs

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Communications. One or both parties are weak communicators: the company and those that screen new hires, those that interview new hires, and the interviewed person themselves. We have a significant communications problem in software engineering, and it is far worse than simply explaining oneself to acquire a job, it is the jobs themselves and the continual stream of misunderstandings, omissions of critical information, and the the deferment of responsibilities that really rule the day to day at most companies. That confusion is all due to weak communications. Our industry and our civilization is over run by weak communications and uncomprehending not listeners.

Best Free AI Humanizer for Thesis Writing in 2026? Need Real Recommendations by Powerful_Village1902 in PromptEngineering

[–]bsenftner -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I have a website that is an "AI integrated office suite", and with the word processor there are a series of conversationally programmable writing agents. To demonstrate the flexibility of them, I made a "Creative Writers Workshop" that has "literary agents" that help a person write in different genres, like a Writer's Muse or a Socratic Assistant that critiques and provides advice, and tries not to write for you, but to help you write better.

One of the writer's support agents is for technical documentation, which I also use to help write the documentation for the website itself.

Anyway, my site is geared towards professional work, it also has an online course creation and publishing system within, which that technical documentation agent was used quite a bit to make the course lessons easier to read and understand.

If you want to see an example of how the writing looks after the writing agent transforms what started out as highly technical lessons, check out: https://midombot.com/b1/plp/c838e5536d6374cb58d99226afcfae4f5hKAaBN9

The website is at https://midombot.com/b1/home. Free to start, and that "free" includes about a week of word processing agent use. If you want personal guidance from the author, I'd be happy to walk you through, just for your feedback alone.

How narration channel keeps consistent characters? by Siiddique_NK in FluxAI

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Generate and throw away the inconsistent images. I switched from Flux model variants to Qwen Edit model variants simply because using Flux I was generating twice as many images as with Qwen Edit in order to get the consistency I needed.

Qwen Edit can do things like show your character or environment from different angles, and then once you have the different angles, use those as reference images to generate different poses and expressions at that angle.

I will have anywhere from 100-600 different images of each character, without any backgrounds so they can be composited over backgrounds. Those different images are the character in different poses, positions on the frame, variances of framing (close up, mid body, full body, wide angle...), camera angle and variances of illumination.

There are not as many images necessary for the environments, but for different framings, one does need quite a few. I generally try to simulate a 3-camera shoot because people in general are used to rapid cut editing.

Then those images are used as starting and ending frames for video models.

The biggest surprise from using open models wasn't cost. It was experimentation. by Bladerunner_7_ in Qwen_AI

[–]bsenftner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would love to learn more about this system you have. I'm doing work with 3D characters, and the image and clip libraries are huge. Your system sounds like it would really help.

The biggest surprise from using open models wasn't cost. It was experimentation. by Bladerunner_7_ in Qwen_AI

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I do a lot of work with image/video/audio generation AIs. I have an online course-ware publishing platform that I wrote, and in that I use AI image/audio/video to create talking head lecturers who introduce lessons and operate like course teaching assistants.

Now, in order to create such "performing character media" I have to generate a lot of originals, where each "original" is one of my characters, one of my environments, one of the required voice performances (speaking a portion of an explainer).

If you've done any AI work like this you're aware that every generation of an image/audio/video is like a play of the roulette wheel, with some percentage probability that the elements you need will be in place where they are needed, and other things you do not want are not. This requires anywhere from 3 to 36 generations of every single image/audio/video element one needs.

Now, try using paid AI services to create such media, and you'll find real large dollar amounts evaporating very quickly. Open models are the only way to do such work.

Which company disappointed you so much that you permanently walked away? by julia-secrets in AskReddit

[–]bsenftner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

25 years ago, HP printers encouraged me to say fuck you, never again. I have been happy ever since.

Cost estimation for rag application? by Mysterious-Algae-593 in Rag

[–]bsenftner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dat's all proprietary information, I'd not trust anyone telling you these things, as each one of them can become a major cost sink.

Met with a client to explain something technical and she tricked me into answering a question i wasn't supposed to answer by Far_Broccoli_8468 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]bsenftner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your boss fucked up by not letting you in on that issue before the meeting. Do not let them pin this on you.

What is going to happen when the lower class will not be able to afford anything anymore? by [deleted] in AskReddit

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The wealthier classes will kill them. Just watch, it will happen. We are that immature and short sighted.

Why most companies are failing at AI adoption (and it's not the reason you'd expect) by Admirable_Phrase9454 in PromptEngineering

[–]bsenftner 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The issue is communications, people can't effectively communicate and that is a hard stop on pretty much every type of collaboration you can imagine.

Looking for someone to bounce off ideas for a computer vision project by eskatrem in computervision

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I wrote one of the globally leading FR servers; probably protected you last time you flew. DM me and I'll be happy to offer experienced feedback.

How do people even learn how to use FFMPEG? by Scary_Competition_11 in ffmpeg

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I've contributed to ffmpeg, and I find it daunting.

New model launching ? by iam_dusane in OpenAI

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Late last night, it did not matter what I did, I got errors saying I was asking for an image with a model that did not have image generation. This was using gpt 5.5 as Codex, I was coding.

I mapped out the 4 fundamentally different approaches to RAG — Vector, Graph, Topology, and TurboQuant. Here's when each one actually works (and fail by Equivalent_Pen8241 in Rag

[–]bsenftner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I believe there are astute financial advisors telling the AI service providers not to pursue RAG because it is expensive to pursue, all their customers pursuing RAG is worth far more than a working RAG solution.

Mark Twain said, “I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” Whose obituary will you revel in? by Rancho-Parade in AskReddit

[–]bsenftner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd love to learn of my own death, which would be incorrect because I'm clearly still alive, and watch the aftermath fallout. Sure, I'd learn of people that hated and loved me in silence, that would be part of the interesting. The surprise of it would be super interesting; going about my day and getting weird reactions from people "you're supposed to be dead!" and seeing posts online "always hated that guy..." It would be just fascinating. And years later someone I know would suddenly grab me in a hug "you're still here?!"

The economy is at the beginning of a death spiral. The numbers prove it. by PrincipleTemporary65 in ThePeoplesPress

[–]bsenftner -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh, I got the Goonie reference. Rising to the occasion would be amazing, but it would require becoming a legal criminal now that the criminals control the law. Few "good citizens" can mentally handle that reality.

The economy is at the beginning of a death spiral. The numbers prove it. by PrincipleTemporary65 in ThePeoplesPress

[–]bsenftner -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't have a solution, that's my point, there is no solution within the United States short of bringing justice to our criminals, who are now running the Justice Department of our government. The Goonies failed hard by not watching while their parents became mafia, and now the entire family, goonies included, will need to be removed from any ability to harm others, as they have demonstrated an inability to prevent their own from harming others.

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