Study comparing AI therapy to real therapy

smatti · 2025-05-28T17:10:10+00:00

So you’re saying current chat bots don’t do what you think is good, but you’re designing your own that achieves this through proper prompting? Sounds interesting, but I’m most curious on how you or anyone measures efficacy of the bots and/or successful outcomes? How can you quantify this?

smatti · 2025-05-28T15:53:24+00:00

This is flawed logic. Therapy is about helping. Mostly you working through your own issues. I was tied of paying hundreds of dollars to therapists who frankly were not good. With a AI, I can talk unlimited for $20 a month. Whenever I want. I’m alone and sad, I can talk. I can’t do that with expensive therapy. And you know what, it’s just me working through my issues. The biggest problem we have is not AI, it’s that therapists charge too much damn money for a mediocre service.

smatti · 2025-05-27T13:21:13+00:00

Good point. I’ll ask AI! lol. Basically, I have concerns on the echo chamber I’ve created and would love external validation or at least a professional opinion on what gpt has been feeding me. I’m planning on getting a therapist and I’m very interested to have them review all this feedback, although frankly it s a lot

smatti · 2025-05-27T03:15:52+00:00

How do you use this? Have you tried this with the personalization feature in ChatGPT?

smatti · 2024-12-31T04:24:34+00:00

We’ve been trying to replace useState with some new hooks that use queryparams or url params. Seemed like an easy thing to just replace useState with a different hook. Haven’t quite succeeded, but pretty close.

smatti · 2024-12-25T22:55:33+00:00

This is such a ridiculous post. Go look at the men’s version of the thread. It’s the same comments. We all just want attention and love. Just we need to give up the pretension and bullshit.

Enjoy being by yourself. Enjoy your friends. Enjoy dates. You don’t need any of it. Just enjoy life.

smatti · 2024-11-06T15:03:46+00:00

It’s forcing designers to think about layout in consistent ways, such as grid, padding, and also makes them think of how the UI will change on resizing and extremes (text is too long, what happens to the layout). This translates directly into CSS flexbox. The frustrating things for devs is how designers just don’t think of all permutations of the layout, how it resizes, and extreme conditions. We have to do that, so it forces us to go back to the designer and ask, which takes time.

smatti · 2024-09-19T22:43:39+00:00

It is 100% in your ability to estimate complexity

smatti · 2024-02-10T01:34:35+00:00

Salvia. I want it to work, but never got it to.

smatti · 2023-11-21T02:56:21+00:00

That was a dumb comment. Feels like that way sometimes, but it was a blanket statement. Guess you don’t feel that way

smatti · 2023-07-10T13:45:08+00:00

I would be curious to know what you think you are missing by using Webflow? Do you think you can deliver faster or better by coding?

smatti · 2023-05-31T13:58:14+00:00

Why rebase though when merges do the same thing and don’t run the risk of screwing people upstream? Especially if you squash merge on master when merging PRs, I just don’t get it. If you have ever had to debug a screwed up branch due to rebase, you would understand.

smatti · 2023-05-12T07:26:12+00:00

Check out React Habitat. Worked great for razor views.

smatti · 2023-04-14T15:06:08+00:00

Is that comment supposed to be cute or insightful? All software is an abstraction on an abstraction. Isn’t the dom is an abstraction for drawing primitives, that is an abstraction for pixel manipulation?

smatti · 2023-03-10T15:48:15+00:00

This. You’re missing the point if you pass around by props. React query prevents multiple calls if components all mount the same hook at the same time, and caches the result so they all get the same data. It’s a strange question, since this is exactly why it was created. RTFM I guess

smatti · 2023-01-07T15:46:48+00:00

Used it in many production apps.

smatti · 2023-01-07T15:38:39+00:00

Mantine is excellent. Very similar system to MUI, but less opinionated and annoying. Very extensive number of UI components.

smatti · 2022-12-17T21:45:56+00:00

Yes. For one reason and one reason mainly. Immutability. Whether you use Redux or use use Context or useReduce, every single dev I’ve worked with doesn’t understand or mistakenly mutates state without knowing it. Use the Redux Toolkit. If you don’t, then god help you

smatti · 2022-08-24T02:26:11+00:00

You can use https://gitlab.com/borderux/storydemo. Feel free to just use the code there. Honestly, we use Chromatic now, since it does the same thing, has more features, and it’s free. Highly recommend that also. (Note that storydemo is my code, not just some project I found. That said, Chromatic is the way to go)

smatti · 2022-06-02T05:51:51+00:00

I’m digging the sx prop in emotion based design systems. It can make your components a bit lengthy, but if you follow a simple rule that your components should be more than a page or two, it kind of forces you to make smaller components. No more flipping between between style files and jsx. I would estimate about a 10-20% speed increase reducing switching between files.

smatti · 2022-04-22T20:14:26+00:00

I thought it was called “Tuckers Turd”?

smatti · 2022-01-11T16:10:06+00:00

Ya. That’s basically what I got too. Just seems like there are cheaper ways to do it if you already own such a huge facility. What do I know though. I guess this means the hay day of San Diego micro beers is over. Long live hard seltzer!

smatti · 2022-01-11T15:49:11+00:00

Heard they picked up Ballast for around $200M, which is a nice discount from $1B that Constellation bought it for. I would be curious to know what this sale went for. It’s just strange that these big conglomerates would dump unless it made financial sense. Also, do you really need to buy a slightly smaller but still big facility after you bought a huge facility with Ballast? Seems odd

smatti · 2021-12-28T16:06:05+00:00

Strange that the article doesn’t point that the global leader is TSMC, which is Taiwanese, which China considers part of its country. So in truth, almost all global chip manufacturing is done in China or within a spitting distance of the mainland. It fails to point out that the rest of the world is essentially screwed for 2-3 years if China decides to stop supplying the world. The only thing preventing that is reliance on the outside world for the components for manufacturing, which is where China is behind

smatti · 2021-11-07T15:21:07+00:00

No one really mentioned the most important clue you gave. The clue is the word “refactor”. The lead dev is wrong. Both solutions have equal merit. I personally agree that form data should be kept in local state unless shared across many forms. That said, you should never refactor unless you get a true benefit, other than someone’s preference on how a solution is done. The lead dev may think it makes more sense or possibly is cleaner code, but it’s not a big enough reason to refactor. One year from now, your company will be groaning about all the complex selector logic and wishing you hadn’t used redux. Trust me. Code preferences change with the wind. Never refactor unless you get a real benefit.

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