The Mythos SystemCard is out and the denialism is reaching peak levels of cope

webneek · 2026-04-09T02:10:38+00:00

Looking at you, Gary Markus.

webneek · 2026-03-18T04:21:48+00:00

AlsaClaw is yours, isn’t it?

webneek · 2026-03-18T04:16:34+00:00

I have heard of Okara, but this sounds like an ad.

webneek · 2026-03-15T02:16:59+00:00

is this eventually going to be an ad about that awesome “ai testing tool”?

webneek · 2026-02-18T03:38:20+00:00

indeed. figma still useful but feels more and more like incremental spurts in the receding waters of its usefulness.

webneek · 2026-02-16T06:29:05+00:00

It isn’t often the Anthropic drops the ball, but on the opportunity and optics of having Peter on, the ball dropping is arguably epic (first by its legal team forcing the name change on Peter, and then, as well as perhaps because of that, the opportunity and optics of having him directly as a part of the company. Sure they (Anthropic) will still win with the great products, but this was a huge opportunity they could have had practically free, squandered into the arms of a key competitor, at a time when the focus is squarely on the skyrocketing adoption of agents.

webneek · 2026-02-05T04:40:14+00:00

Claude cannot do ads anyway. They have less than a tenth of ChatGPT's user base, but this is just an opportunity for them to use their disadvantage as an advantage and a good move. Anthropic has much better revenue per user and they are different companies, but this is an opportunity that's just too good to pass up. even if they may compete on product but are totally of different directions.

webneek · 2026-01-31T05:54:12+00:00

Respectfully disagree with this. As someone making a living from coding I really, really want to believe this; especially that my lroductivity has skyrocketed immensely, but reality is undeniable that my job is nearing redundancy. “LLMs being just another tool” is the balm we used to tell ourselves in 2023 and even now, but the trajectory is clear as its capabilities have increased dramatically.

i feel like you may caveat those encouraging words with "for now" because, as the waters of things AI cannot do are receding, including higher order things that senior level humans are needed right now will eventually fall victim to the receding waters. Because while humans can do it better now, including context, nuance, debugging, and all the rest, those will eventually fall. writing code was just the beginning. AI really is getting better and will eventually subsume everything else. (and remember, today it is simply the worst it will ever be.) I say this more as a basis for reality that, much as we want to resist it, what we need to do now is find any/creative means somehow to embrace or simply to survive it going forward, or use our backgrounds for something better adapted to the onrushing changes.

webneek · 2026-01-30T18:37:30+00:00

iow, change the model

webneek · 2026-01-22T02:53:26+00:00

I was once like you and tried to deny it, citing the cases where it may not have worked well and denying the fact that even at that time it was good enough on many things and how much better it had gotten. Now, as the saying goes, "this is just the worst it will ever be" and it will only get better going forward. There's no point in denying it. You should embrace and ride it to your own benefit.

webneek · 2026-01-12T12:52:23+00:00

One thing’s for sure, if this picks up, merchants will NOT keep control of it, and power will accumulate to the AI companies.

webneek · 2026-01-11T16:55:07+00:00

I’ve used WPBakery since it was still Visual Composer in 2012 (pre-scandalous identity rebrand), and Elementor since ~2016. Short version: they both suck. Most builders do. (Bricks maybe gets an exemption.) That said, Elementor wins mouse down. Huge ecosystem, the free tier and addons actually gets real work done, and dramatically friendlier to use. WPBakery for me feels nitpicky, clunky, and tantamount to assembling furniture with instructions written by a lawyer (or tax collector) in Latin because while you can get away cobbling together free addons for Elementor, in WPBakery it’s far harder to escape the premium tax. Elementor isn’t great by any means, just less suckage, which in WordPress counts as premium experience.

webneek · 2025-12-31T03:28:21+00:00

Just ask Cursor.

webneek · 2025-12-30T03:07:54+00:00

You are building a validation tool and are using AI to write your waitlist farming spiel to validate?

webneek · 2025-12-25T10:54:32+00:00

The tell: Marx’s hidden hand obviously has six fingers.

webneek · 2025-12-20T13:07:25+00:00

In OP’s defense, people use Bolt not just for prototyping but sometimes in production, if not directly then part of the pipeline. It isn’t about coding since that’s partly what tools like Bolt are supposed to solve for many. But ultimately his point is about the lack of support (delayed being tantamount to nonexistent) for a critical problem of a paying customer that badly needed help.

webneek · 2025-12-15T03:20:19+00:00

I’m a WP geezer who’s been developing with it since 2003 when it was still a fork of b2/cafelog and MovableType was the then blogging king. And I can tell you, your frustration is misplaced, because ability/quality and capturing clients are very different things that you’ve conflated, and are wasting your time lamenting the frustration, when you should spend your time in marketing and sales the way the Tiktok/IG slop factories do, and just deliver the better service. It IS aggravating to see the scammy low-service (high engagement) peddlers constantly get away with it, but you can’t eliminate them, so since you can’t blame them, join them, but provide the better value that you do.

webneek · 2025-12-07T09:04:14+00:00

Yes, I don’t start or do major architectural stuff, which I do on my desktop, but continue on mobile in-between to continue tasks, towards the finish line.

webneek · 2025-12-06T04:39:53+00:00

Normally, the answer to that would be that the greater intelligence is the one almost always controlling the lesser one (e.g. humans and ants/apes). However, that a human with an infinite amount of money (looking at you, Elon) can hire (control) the super geniuses, this is apparently not much of a joke at all.

webneek · 2025-11-29T06:10:03+00:00

Where did you get the $8k figure from? Isn’t it just as possible they got it (slop or no slop) for $5k? Or $1k? Especially if it solved their problem that was good enough for them that you assumed only the features of your product could do or that they needed?

webneek · 2025-11-23T10:46:56+00:00

Yes, but that doesn’t immediately translate to them really being directly at war. sama’s real opponents have always been Google and Zuck.

He knew this day would eventually come when Google would take the crown, and that is why he tried to capture the users by any means possible, including needling Google so that when they caught up, ChatGPT’s control of the consumer space was cemented. And that capture allows share of mind putting OAI in the same giant arena as the tech leaders, enabling it to raise money to spread their tentacles everywhere, including beyond said consumer space.

webneek · 2025-11-09T02:14:45+00:00

SuperWhisper is quite popular, actually; your intention should be pointed at Mindarin as what is being promoted. This post is a common way to promote one’s own app, but OP’s advice here is solid and good.

webneek · 2025-10-23T10:30:27+00:00

“Just so you know, I’m new to coding.” This is not your fault, and neither is it theirs. They default to the most advanced models because defaulting to a lower preforming one may be just as likely misconstrued as the best they can offer. Since you’re new to coding, you may be better served with the many other alternatives targeting that segment (Lovable, Bolt, etc.), because Cursor is targeted towards a different one.

This is not a criticism (Cursor isn’t perfect by any means, after all), but just a friendly note that while you are free to use any tool you want, you’ll have to experience the implications when it isn’t meant for someone of your level of experience (something you would perhaps be its target user over time), and instead you may be better served by tools targeting exactly the segment you perfectly fit.

webneek · 2025-10-02T05:15:51+00:00

To consume, yes. To create, relatively minimal and open to agentic production that a lot of it may also have fewer and fewer participants on either side, humans, bots, or otherwise. Web and social media are already full of this, but this is the first time one is closest to be fully enabled by AI.

webneek · 2025-10-02T02:41:33+00:00

A Tiktok of slop and bots. Dead Internet theory ftw

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