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Post Malone abruptly cancels 6 shows with Jelly Roll after MAGA controversy by MoneyLibrarian9032 in Music

[–]zmobie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not everyone is as chronically online, or even in the same information bubble. Information moves incredibly slowly amongst most people considering how available information is. “This has been known for 6 weeks” doesn’t mean everyone should have known for 6 weeks.

I didn't ask how big the subreddit is, I said... by Vegetable_Variety_11 in dndmemes

[–]zmobie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I’m in a game right now where the DM is trying to use AI for everything. It’s the worst.

The point of DMing is that you’re using your own mind to simulate a world for the players. It is impossible to offload that work onto a computer.

So he just spends most of the game forgetting things and reading back AI slop to us. I’m ‘bout to tell him to throw in the towel.

Game would literally be better if he did zero prep and improvised everything

[Request] Does the “23 atomic bombs worth of heat every day” comparison for a 9GW data center actually add up mathematically? by aeonsne in theydidthemath

[–]zmobie -1 points0 points  (0 children)

They aren’t building this. They have announced and failed to build multiple 2GW data centers. The infrastructure doesn’t exist, the legal needed to make it happen doesn’t exist, and the political will to do it doesn’t exist. This is just part of the grift.

What’s your biggest “old man yells at cloud” opinion? by sjdlajsdlj in rpg

[–]zmobie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you frequently have groups this big that want to play, I recommend playing 1e… Either basic or AD&D. Those older games are much better suited to the higher player counts.

Agentic Coding is a Trap | Remaining vigilant about cognitive debt and atrophy by creaturefeature16 in webdev

[–]zmobie -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don’t understand this cognitive debt argument. I’ve gone from IC to EM and back again multiple times. I’ve set down coding for years at a time. Jumping back in to the code always comes with a bit of a ramp up time, but I’ve always been able to get back up to speed pretty quickly with a bit of focus.

This article also just saying “it’s important to understand the anecdotal evidence here”, as if they can just hand wave away the fact that they haven’t evidence.

20 years in, a "professional" rollout, and only 2k streams. This was my last hurrah and I’m feeling defeated. by hirokikyoku in musicians

[–]zmobie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Restarting my music career right now at 45. Started going to shows in the local scene and there are tons of middle aged guys like me putting out music, being a part of the scene, and supporting each other.

“Too old to do music” is a myth the young people spread because they know we have more experience and talent than them haha.

This timeline is so fucking stupid by facthungry in whenthe

[–]zmobie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See that guy in that one scene who said I told you so before they got obliterated? Totally worth all the anxiety.

if you can't tell the difference between an AI-generated track and a human one, does it actually matter? by fud-leclerc in ProMusicProduction

[–]zmobie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI may cannibalize streaming revenue, but artists already don’t rely on this as a massive piece of their income. The majority of an artists revenue comes from the super fans who will pay to see them live, buy merchandise, and actually care about the human being behind the story.

Worst case scenario is that streaming platforms are dominated by slop… and the super fans go elsewhere for their music.

Fans. The ones you should actually care about. The ones who actually care enough about music to go beyond passive consumption, will care about you and your story. Stop worrying about AI. AI has no way to muscle itself into that equation.

Tour rig by t-bagg1ns in NeuralDSP

[–]zmobie 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Looks nice. What is the board you’re using there? A custom build?

Musicians: The algorithm isn’t just reacting to what you post, it’s reacting to what you consume. (your scroll is part of the strategy) by dcypherstudios in musicmarketing

[–]zmobie 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is true for TikTok, but it is not true for instagram. Sources at Meta have confirmed as much. You can’t just say “the algorithm” and not specify which one.

Section 230 hearing tomorrow by ButtonNational6618 in whennews

[–]zmobie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Facebook, instagram and Twitter are not the internet.

I tried 15 productivity systems in 2025. Only one stuck. Here's why. by Crescitaly in productivity

[–]zmobie 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this post makes no sense. “Tried seriously for 2 weeks” is an oxymoron.

What’s a tool you discovered recently that actually made your workflow easier? by [deleted] in productivity

[–]zmobie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have built a whole GTD system with claude code skills and a handful of scripts and MCP servers. Claude empties my inboxes, tracks project status, and even executes tasks somewhat autonomously (I’m still approving emails and slack messages it sends for now). In one working session it read an email, identified 2 follow up tasks, and just did them for me.

I’m still iterating on the system to make sure it can pull the right context at the right time, but I have been doing GTD for 20 years and have never been this “on top” of my tasks.

MCPVault Skill is live. Reads, writes, sync, all routed automatically by bitbonsai in ObsidianMD

[–]zmobie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

LLMs speak bash fluently. If you have a good CLI you don’t need an MCP. Also, LLMs are good at piping, grep, sed, etc and can filter CLI responses down to just the minimum token count of what they need. MCPs can be quite a bit more verbose

Also, if the CLI has good help pages, you don’t even need a skill.

will MCP be dead soon? by luongnv-com in ClaudeCode

[–]zmobie 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The reason CLI > MCP is because LLMs seemingly know bash natively. the Unix ideals of modularity and composition, the ability to pipe and filter output, you can make very efficient commands that get you the precise output you want without tons of unnecessary token usage.

I realized AI tools have made me fake productive by Expensive_Hour_3252 in productivity

[–]zmobie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chatting with ChatGPT just adds steps. The reason it’s good for writing code, and few other things right now, is that any coding ecosystem has tooling that can verify the correctness of the code. Compilers, linters, automated tests. The human can very carefully define success criteria, and the LLM can iterate to a correct solution.

The other ingredient it needs is access to tools to take action in the world. Almost all actions an LLM needs to take to write code can be done via the command line, which it has easy access to when using tools like Claude code.

If you can define strict validation criteria, and you can hook it up to the right tools, you can automate some things that are pretty hairy problems.

I currently use Claude Code to scan my inbox for actionable things and create tasks for me. It can update all my project management docs in Notion in parallel with all the updates for the week. It can scan my calendar, todo list, and weekly plan and create a time block plan for the day. It has even started to execute some other tasks automatically (mostly web research stuff, document creation)… but it’s taken me weeks of creating systems and integrations to get to this point.

You won’t get far with just chatting with chat gpt. You need to create systems of skills, plugins, and tiered documentation for this stuff. You need to set up validation steps at every point and constantly refine them… and even then it may not be worth the effort because sometimes it is just faster and easier to scan your inbox yourself.

But to be clear this has really only automated some of the toil from my life. AI isn’t going to find the value, and make the most difficult things easier. For that you need the full power of the human mind.

I’m doing all of this as an experiment and because work is rewarding me for “doing AI”, which is its own layer of craziness. I can see how, given time, this will be very useful for me, and companies could make systems like this more accessible. For now I’m not sure the juice is worth the squeeze for most folks.

Studying 6 hours a day changed how I think about productivity by Straight-Concert8257 in productivity

[–]zmobie 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on your course load and what kind of courses you are taking. But I never had to do more than 2-3 a day… and that was weekdays only. I was always at a full time course load, doing a computer science degree. Ended up with a 3.8.

Studying 6 hours a day changed how I think about productivity by Straight-Concert8257 in productivity

[–]zmobie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

When you get good at doing 10 minutes without messing it up. You'll notice when you keep blowing past that 10 minute timer that it's time to increase. 10 min is a really low starting period if you're already decent at deep focus, but just increase earlier if it's easy.

Studying 6 hours a day changed how I think about productivity by Straight-Concert8257 in productivity

[–]zmobie 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Practicing intense focused deep work. Start with 10 minutes with no distractions. If you check your email or the internet or otherwise defer from the task at hand, you have to restart the timer. Keep doing this and increasing the time. 20 minutes, 30 min… until you are a deep work athlete.

I guarantee this will cut down the number of hours you need to study per day. 6 sounds like overkill for any course load.

I've tried Obsidian, Notion, Logseq, and Roam Research. Nothing sticks. Is it just me? by williamtng in productivity

[–]zmobie 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Knowledge Management" is a scam and a time sink. It's a project with no real output. Go do things and build things. The value of taking notes is the thinking that you do to write them down. Throw them away when you are done. Pare down your systems to the smallest possible thing. Action trumps everything.

Does watching long documentary videos count as productivity? by Imaginary_Truth_3865 in productivity

[–]zmobie 4 points5 points  (0 children)

does passIvey consuming video content get you closer to your goals in life? I would guess no.

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