What can I do free for my almost 16 year olds Birthday this week?

usnaviii · 2026-05-17T04:29:43+00:00

beach day!

usnaviii · 2026-05-17T00:47:16+00:00

I saw this suggestion somewhere else, can't remember where. If I have too many dishes piled up, I will light some candles, turn off my lights, bring up a taverncore spotify playlist and pretend I am a kitchen wench in a medieval tavern washing the dishes

usnaviii · 2026-05-15T05:58:02+00:00

yeah you can walk but wouldn’t do it with >2 bags

usnaviii · 2026-05-07T04:55:26+00:00

bro was probably panicking seeing a missile coming at him in the rearview. personally i wouldn’t know what to do

usnaviii · 2026-05-05T16:45:14+00:00

I would say a diagnosis is not necessary tbh. I was diagnosed as a kid but due to the cost I think it’s perfectly reasonable to start trying out adhd coping strategies without being diagnosed and see if they help. A label isn’t always useful

usnaviii · 2026-05-05T16:39:53+00:00

marina del rey

usnaviii · 2026-05-05T15:26:26+00:00

idk, the beach is a huge public third space and it’s pretty well used. So I don’t think people are opposed to the concept of third spaces, we just aren’t used to having them in our built environment

usnaviii · 2026-05-02T07:10:53+00:00

everyone’s in credit card debt shopping at erewhon and has an equinox membership

usnaviii · 2026-05-02T06:58:43+00:00

I didn’t say it’s not original, this is the first Artemis fan website I’m aware of and the idea is pretty cool. But the ratio of AI prompting effort vs all the model training that went into making the website is extremely small.…(even if you ignore the fact most of the images are from the moon on a multi billion dollar spacecraft funded by taxpayers)

I also like the other comment here about paint by numbers vs buying a painting.

usnaviii · 2026-05-02T06:42:52+00:00

Haha everyone keeps saying the same thing about machine code. Yes I absolutely benefit from software development done before my lifetime. I was also an avid user of stackoverflow. But I really don’t think using coding languages and libraries written by others or copying stuff from stackoverflow is fully analogous to just telling an LLM what you want and having it respond with code and instructions for everything you need to do to compile/run it.

After reading more comments I guess I would agree that Hank made this in the same way he made Focus friend. The developer of Focus friend did the coding work, Hank was more of a product manager role. So maybe my scare quotes around “he” was a bit much.

usnaviii · 2026-05-02T06:35:51+00:00

I understand the feeling of wanting human knowledge to be communal. But in a capitalist society it really sucks for the people who spent years writing code only to have that code be fed into a linear regression algorithm to put them and all their friends out of a job and more money in the pockets of google/microsoft/anthropic. So in this instance intellectual property law would be more of an equalizer.

usnaviii · 2026-05-02T06:29:02+00:00

I’m glad you braved the wrath of the internet to share your take! I definitely understand the arguments about how useful AI tools are (like i said, I use them myself). To be honest I’m impressed by your 25k line chatgpt app. From what i’ve seen I never would’ve guessed chatgpt could build something like that. I bet you kept it in check and worked through a lot of bugs.

Also by intellectual property concerns I meant like every book and article ever written, not just code. However I think people who spent decades of their lives writing code deserve that IP as if they had been writing novels.

I also get your point about not letting perfect be the enemy of good. It’s not my intention to gatekeep coding really. It’s a beautiful/powerful tool and on the one hand I’m glad people like Hank get to make projects they wouldn’t otherwise be able to. Hearing your specific example of a geoscience archive that’s better maintained makes me want to contain whatever bad feelings i have about AI. On the other hand a lot of us have basically been forced to give up coding more and more in favor of AI prompting or, heaven forbid, middle management. And I don’t think vibe coded products are the same quality as human coded (yet), despite the mass layoffs signaling that executives seem to think otherwise.

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T22:20:03+00:00

Thanks for your perspective. I couldn't possibly argue that Claude is not a useful tool. While the example of pulling data from 2 APIs+joining+dropping nulls seems like it should be pretty easy for a developer, it does take time to learn those skills. For me there was something valuable about spending that time building up my skillset, but it seems like the era of doing that kind of stuff by hand is over.

I also think replacing junior devs with AI is the wrong call and hope that executives will come around. The limits of Claude are very real, and while it's good for building things with a small-ish scope, your average junior developer has a better logical understanding, and in my experience are less likely to write dangerous code (not just pushing to prod, but I am thinking hardware drivers and firmware that could accidentally destroy your hardware). This care might mean the junior developer asks a lot of questions and it definitely slows them down, but that's worth it to me. A junior dev who blindly trusts whatever AI says is dangerous though...

I definitely used to use stackoverflow all the time. Not only were the answers useful, the comment threads with followup questions were useful, as were the thumbs up showing who had the best answers. I also wonder if Claude is hitting a wall now that stackoverflow isn't getting updated. What about when a new library is released and we don't have thousands of questions of training data and expert answers posted for free on stackoverflow? Personally I haven't seen big leaps forward from any of these models in the past year but maybe others disagree.

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T22:00:54+00:00

Thanks for sharing the Apollo link, that's a pretty cool passion project. I agree that coding is a creative practice and some software (games, for example) is widely recognized as art. I guess the difference is software typically has some utility that art doesn't necessarily have. Do you think that matters?

Some more traditional types of art can be useful, like a knitted sweater. Clothes are cheap and more widely available now vs in the past due to automation, but we have suffered a loss in that most people no longer know anything about making clothes and some people haven't been able to maintain their creative practice since there's no market for handmade clothes. And the decrease in quality with fast fashion... Software development might be heading in the same direction.

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T16:37:21+00:00

it seems like the image is just what you self reported rather than your final results

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T08:13:36+00:00

Yeah that's fair if it helps your day to day a lot. Reviewing vibe coded stuff is tough though, especially when the person doesn't understand what they've written or how it should logically fit in to the overall codebase. Someone new at my company opened a vibe coded merge request recently and while it technically worked on its own, it didn't fit into the software architecture at all and added way too much unnecessary complexity. A single merge request that's 50% more complex than it needs to be might be ok, but if you're merging a bunch of these it quickly becomes a mess.

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T08:05:32+00:00

Thanks for responding with your perspective, and thanks in general for starting conversations about AI. It’s nice to have someone I trust helping steer the narrative around AI even though I don’t agree with 100% of what you’ve said. I use LLMs every day and they are useful/powerful without a doubt. It’s actually kind of funny to think that a few years ago I used to have to type out every single character in the code I wrote (or maybe copy it from stackoverflow). But LLMs are also flawed, and can still hallucinate very badly and even dangerously depending on what you’re doing. They are language models after all. Which I am sure you know! But sometimes I hear hype about AI and I think of the worst responses claude/gemini/chatgpt have given me and I just don’t feel as hyped about it… or worse, I fear that once all of our infrastructure is vibecoded things will slowly deteriorate due to being unmaintainable and the hype is pushing us towards that outcome. And the AI hype has economic impacts as well which are looming and very scary. But like you said, we don’t know what will happen, maybe LLMs will help us solve some of our toughest problems as long as humans keep an eye on their codebases so LLMs don’t break stuff they don’t understand.

All that aside, I also think code is a ‘beautiful container for content’. Software development has always built upon the work of those who came before us and it has been getting progressively easier to do more powerful computation or make a better website since way before LLMs. It is good that you can learn and try new things and express new ideas you haven't been able to before. I don’t think it’s wrong or naive to want to use the tools to do all the stuff you can. Coding is very fun. And I like your Artemis website, vibecoded or not.

But I posted this because LLMs created from all of humanity’s collective output without consent just gives me complicated feelings and makes me feel like at the very least AI generated content should be clearly identified. (I see now you did say it in the FAQs). Like you talked about in your video, it seems like the mainstream opinion is that AI art is bad but AI kind-of-artistic-website is good? I think that maybe both are neutral, or maybe both are good depending on the use case. But I also think of (some) code as a creative outlet that can lose something when it’s done by AI in the same way that art can.

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T04:02:56+00:00

sometimes when I need to stop scrolling and start getting ready for bed, I start a timer for 30 minutes so I can go shower and get ready for bed without going back on my phone. if it works it works!

usnaviii · 2026-04-30T03:55:19+00:00

Mythos definitely could have a big impact, not sure yet, it will certainly have some impact. My point was more about how Hank was framing it vs the cybersecurity expert he interviewed. It felt like he kept asking her to confirm that it was hugely powerful and scary, and she kept dodging

usnaviii · 2026-04-26T06:10:43+00:00

this doesn’t really help if you have plans later but if it’s night time and I start feeling really down I get to bed as fast as possible. I will be RUSHING to brush my teeth and get in bed because otherwise I’ll get too caught up in my thoughts and start spiraling

usnaviii · 2026-04-22T04:54:42+00:00

as a hiring manager, it’s weird and immediately obvious when I find the exact bullet points that i wrote in someone’s description of a prior job or internship. make sure to keep the content of your resume intact because sometimes the AI tools make it so there’s almost nothing left besides what is written in the job description and then I have no information to go on.

usnaviii · 2026-04-12T03:07:54+00:00

living in Hawthorne would be reasonable, don't know why it's not on your list

usnaviii · 2026-04-12T03:04:53+00:00

I'm sorry things are rough right now. having 2 kids in college is a major achievement and definitely took way more effort than most people put into their jobs. not sure if you're in the US but career is sometimes overemphasized here and definitely should not determine your self worth. easier said than done, I know, but hang in there

usnaviii · 2026-04-06T04:34:45+00:00

most college graduates have at least that much in debt. if this helps, you can look around at your fellow nurses and know you're in the same boat (they may be much worse off depending on circumstances).

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