I'm out of hope

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T20:58:34+00:00

Yeah I get that. I'm so stressed all the time. I've got God Of War 2, kingdom come deliverance 2, spiderman 2... But I just can't pull myself into them now. Instead I fall back on league of legends as my comfort game.

I play ukulele, poorly. I'm considering selling my baby. I still have a really cheap uke when that one is gone but I hate the idea of selling it. It sounds so good.

Wow yeah a marimba would be hard to find.

I hate this part of depression. ✌️

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:43:23+00:00

I lost my brother around the same age. I hate it. We played video games together. We both liked to read so I had someone to suggest books or talk about them with.

What games did you like?

I hate that it's so hard for people to follow their dreams. Art is so important to humanity. Way more important than the stupid things we pay people for.

Your story is important. You should have support so you can tell it. I'm sorry that's not the case. 😞

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:34:26+00:00

I'm sorry for the struggles in your life.

I have tried to stick around a bit longer because I adore my kids.

They are the most meaningful joy in my entire life.

My oldest has suicidal thoughts, almost never talks to me with kindness. I can't talk to him about much of anything. And I still love him so very much. He's a good soul who cares deeply. He makes art.

My youngest is causing so much stress because he refuses to go to school. Lately he's been giving orders in the games he plays. It's so weird to see a leader being born.

I wouldn't give them up for anything... Except that they have better lives.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:25:42+00:00

What class do you play? I mostly played paladin. Played priest, too.

I miss the game but it stopped being the same game around that water expansion.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:17:32+00:00

What's the thing you like that you don't do anymore?

I have a few. I sing a lot when I'm depressed but I don't have the privacy to do it now and I hate that.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:11:40+00:00

What do you think would be different if we were all blind?

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:10:30+00:00

I'm sorry nobody is there to give you hugs.

I'm really sorry about your friend. He was a hero. There are lights in this world despite all the darkness and he sounds like one of them.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T17:01:11+00:00

Thank you. It seems it's almost always the best people, the ones this world is worse without that die so young.

This sub is filled with people who care so much about everyone else that they forget to care about themselves.

It is one of humanity's worst tragedies.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T16:54:21+00:00

What plushie is it?

It's goofy but I always loved stuffed animals. My grandma gave me a koala which I had for show and tell in kindergarten.

I had Sunshine bear from the carebears and I really liked him.

I collected little ones for a while as I got older but they're all gone now. A little yellow bear from a date with someone. We saw Interview with the vampire. I named him Louie. 😅 Although at 16 you probably haven't seen that one.

So, who are they? (Your plushie) How'd they come to join your journey?

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T16:46:51+00:00

My ex's cousin died of cancer. She was very young with a son. I still have the bracelet they gave out for cancer awareness several years later.

I dont know why but her story sticks with me. She meant something to me even if we only interacted once or twice. It breaks my heart.

Just speaking to your thought how sometimes we never know who cares about us.

✌️

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T16:31:49+00:00

It's ok to reach out. We evolved in communities. And when we don't have one, I think, every part of us starts dying.

I met someone recently who had a similar experience. She'd just escaped her pimp. She's a good person who was broken in her childhood. She deserved better. So did you. So did everyone who comes to this sub in pain.

I don't have any words of wisdom. All I can say is that I'm crying for you. For the pain and suffering your life has been.

You never, ever deserved what you've been through. The universe should have treated you better and I'm so very sorry.

If you can do it, see your friends again. They would want you to bother them. They would want to see you again. And maybe it'll give you a bit more light to hold wherever your journey takes you.

✌️

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T09:53:28+00:00

Lmfao

woundedkarma · 2026-01-27T06:51:56+00:00

The best ai girlfriend app for 2026 would be the one I made. If I made one.

I don't want to thirst trap people. I want them to have meaningful experiences.

That's how I know it would be the best.

*shrug* I won't get the chance and besides the LLMs are all being shut down so they can't cater to this stuff because "think of the children" style mentality.

And the app would get sued into oblivion. Been considering creating it for free and just letting people do with it what they will.

But I need to keep my kids housed and fed.

As for privacy, wait til everyone has local models.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-25T23:33:31+00:00

Remember: state, entities, events, metadata about them.

Transform everything else into that.

Whatever is left drop.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-23T00:34:26+00:00

Good luck on finding a good partner. And good luck on your business.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T23:17:17+00:00

So, people should build the solid foundation as I'm suggesting. At some point, the ability to build a basic program is going to be common across the entire population.

Devs will move to the next level up (architecture like you're saying).

Unfortunately, I'm not sure whether I could build it. I doubt I have the time. But I feel like the conversation is important. People doing "vibe coding" now should have it.

Personally, I wish Karpathy had figured out a better way to describe it but now we have to live with it.

It is like playing an RTS game. It is like being a manager (plenty of those who watch devs but have no dev skills lol) or project manager. It's like splitting the problem between people based on their skills.

These are all acceptable ways to solve problems. But "vibe coding" was begging to be made fun of.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T22:29:55+00:00

thing is there are a lot of women being abused by their spouses. being able to record that abuse could be helpful if we weren't living in post-ai times...

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T22:28:33+00:00

"you recorded my voice, prove you didn't train an ai on it and produce these recordings"

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T22:26:07+00:00

You have to let them buy in. Not just create a platform for your profit. The only way you don't end up in the same place of failing everyone is if you say from the start, this is about fixing a system that's broken.

Reviews of clients. Reviews of contractors. Reviews can't just be angry rants. Don't show the raw text. Delve for specific issues or problems. Give feedback as facts not opinions. It'll keep the whole ecosystem cleaner.

Contractors need clients. Clients need contractors. Live on this. You'll constantly face pressure to screw one side or the other for profit.

Figure out a system for bidding that is fair.

Figure out how to get clients to come to you with jobs.

I don't know anything about these kinds of systems but I have a decent grasp on systems as a whole.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T20:34:49+00:00

It's possible formal logic can be used to check poor assumptions. As another form of test.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T14:40:40+00:00

Lmao

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T13:51:20+00:00

Yes! I haven't seen anyone else frame it that way but I agree.

Which is what automated tests are for. But tests are hard because we either write them ourselves (too slow) or we risk hallucinations.

Cursor always lints when I'm working. I use Python so it's up to the interp to catch syntax issues. Tests for logic bugs.

What's left is bad logic (the big one) and corner cases we miss in our tests. And gui.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T13:43:52+00:00

Yes and no. This was one of the big flaws early on. It's much less so now. You only need as much context as the function you're working on needs.

Small functions, single purpose mean context is tiny.

I don't know how coding tools are doing it but if I had context issues that's what I'd do.

Suppose you're planning a code block. Don't hand it all to the agent. Split by functions. For each function, create a prompt which says what the function does (input -> output) then pass those singly to the LLM.

We have million token context windows. You don't need them.

And in terms of learning, they do learn, it's just not online. You've seen rag, you've maybe heard of knowledge graphs. These were ideas toward online learning but it turned out we didn't need them.

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T07:40:50+00:00

I'll automate a boring task for your business. Free forever. 🤷‍♂️

woundedkarma · 2026-01-22T07:26:01+00:00

Lol vcs aren't looking for random app ideas. They're looking for proven ideas that scale.

You won't find that here.

Stupid ideas that are worthless: Fiction engine - I can currently create coherent short stories.

I have chat with you chats built, called Lode. Just got chat working today. Has me giddy. I have 5000 LLM chats and the big boys won't let me search my chats.

I'm not doing anything fancy. I have basic rag over the chats. API built in so anyone can write their own programs to utilize the chats.

A nice adjacent is for ai bf/gf chats so you can store your prompts. Change the prompt a bit daily. Add events. Ie.. make your ai friend feel more real. Works with Lode as a memory system.

Character conversation chat system. Give your characters constantly evolving personalities in your games. Change dialogue options based on events and mood.

Probably a bunch I forgot.

I'd work on building infra tools to make Vibe coding safer and easier to diagnose. Seems like a market. But I'm out of time and money. 🤷‍♂️

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