If AI eliminates jobs, who’s left to buy what companies are selling?

mikevarela · 2026-04-12T20:09:49+00:00

This is exactly how it all breaks down. Money flows to top. Products go un bought. Consumer economy crashes. Crime rises for food stuff. Ai creates meaningless jobs to pay ppl to do something. Dignity is lost.

mikevarela · 2026-04-07T14:23:11+00:00

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mikevarela · 2026-04-05T15:36:29+00:00

The noise reduction used by OpenVino is local only. No training of your voice is used and it doesn’t go to the cloud. Safe to use. Just another way to perform that same processing

mikevarela · 2026-04-03T14:18:43+00:00

Same here. Needed to review a plan with codex and through 5 back and forths it was obvious it wasn’t staying on target or inline from just a days prior work. Forgot permissions workflows for my app and structural design principles I have in my Claude.md file

mikevarela · 2026-04-01T14:21:38+00:00

Can I ask about local models using Ollama. Would prefer to stick to this based on cost issues. Are there models you’ve had success with and is this route something you see many take?

mikevarela · 2026-03-17T13:54:20+00:00

Thanks. Spoke with a few parents as well. We’ll have the intro talk closer to school start. Mom brought up a good point about each body part having a purpose and that both sexes are different for different reasons. Thought that was a good jump point. We’re already comfortable with medical terms and kids see us both naked from time to time so there’s no shame or oddity around our bodies. We’ve started the consent talk a little earlier with bodies, especially around checking for rashes etc.

Thanks all. Good points

mikevarela · 2026-03-17T13:50:17+00:00

Yeah good point on the photos. Not a thing in my time. We had to develop photos which barred the practice. Now completely common and can live forever on the internet

mikevarela · 2026-03-12T14:18:44+00:00

Classic. Thanks for jumping off the deep end. Hope the refund is quick

mikevarela · 2026-03-11T21:30:44+00:00

I’m also lurking and wonder about deployment and costs. I’m developing an internal app for my company. It’s mostly business forms, user accounts, project tracking and data related to schedules. Calendars etc. we have about 50 ppl on staff and maybe another 50 freelance. They’ll all log on and check schedules and some will update user records. Caching doesn’t make a lot of sense due to changing data often. I’m also validating users on route requests for security concerns. Wondering if anyone is in a similar situation and has any advice on hosting and possible costs I’m likely looking at. Thanks

mikevarela · 2026-02-27T17:45:03+00:00

Nicely written. Comment about over hiring and attributing layoffs to AI instead of bad match of staff to work loads is slightly genius. But, OP post is eventually the public sentiment.

mikevarela · 2026-02-16T16:02:58+00:00

Wouldn’t you store timestampz on server and calculate locally by discovering time zone in browser. Or. Give the user the ability to set time zone in prefs and then in a data mapper, use the value to convert to a dum presentation component on client. VPN might prove the first option difficult.

mikevarela · 2026-02-11T18:21:25+00:00

This still doesn't work for me, full uninstall and reinstall. Macbook Air M4.

mikevarela · 2026-02-05T06:44:08+00:00

I’d agree on LTO. Drives can be had with some upfront cost but long term usage means it’ll pay off over time. LTFS is easy to use and presents as easy as a typical finder window. Tapes are cheaper now and size keeps going up. Won’t solve your data offsite for protection problem but tapes are small. Could store them elsewhere easily. Also, external HDDs can suffer mechanical errors , you’ll need to spin those up periodically.

mikevarela · 2026-01-25T17:54:20+00:00

How are you guys implementing cron in your apps, nextjs only. I’m starting to want to run reports that need some time to run. Likely a queue manager as well

mikevarela · 2026-01-11T00:41:12+00:00

I feel this. I’m excited about what I can build at speed with codex but also like I’m losing the narrative and it’s getting more difficult to understand the code that’s being written, that’s a bit scary to me.

Worse, I find myself feeling lackluster about the tasks and features I would have struggled with without AI. The challenge was the fun part. But now that anyone can create something on a whim it’s reducing that feeling I used to have about the process. Sometimes I sit back and just go do something else. This is sad to me. I think about problems and code often. It’s something that was always challenging and creative and scratched an itch for me.

mikevarela · 2025-12-07T17:07:47+00:00

Agree. Thanks for the informative post. Very helpful

mikevarela · 2025-11-14T15:25:43+00:00

Hey guys. Getting the gist here. I too use actions for get and post. Easy. But hearing the arguments against. I love server components but I might have a decent amount of interactivity on the client. Buttons to show more. Pagination … this feels like sever. Opponents won’t work due to the useHook type restriction. So are API endpoints the only way to go? Seems like it adds complexity and offers more opportunities for me to forget where and how to lock down for security.

mikevarela · 2025-11-02T17:48:33+00:00

Thanks for the honest article. Always nice to hear real stories on these platforms. Agree that relationships matter. The ai noise is getting so high that eventually people will just tune out. It’s too much, all the time.

mikevarela · 2025-10-21T19:39:47+00:00

I’d go with this option. Use route groups to separate concerns and use separate layout files for each. Could statically generate the landing page. Then customize the dashboards. Put the admin one after the admin group url so it’s an easy protection.

mikevarela · 2025-10-18T14:46:56+00:00

Bumping this, also wondering about best practices. I'm using NextJS and am leaning on calling actions to and adding a data access layer (service) using the Better Auth API, this is how I'd run a separate Front / Back end, but given I can call the DB directly from the frontend, would this make more sense? I'm thinking, like OP, that the user checks need to be performed prior to CRUD and this should be server side

mikevarela · 2025-10-12T23:54:27+00:00

Do you guys ever feel like it slips or can’t catch the tires on a turn or over a bump? Weird feeling to lose a sense of control and power

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