I've seen a lot of discussion about that. I haven't personally noticed it (it's always been pretty quiet) but yeah, maybe. Or alternatively, maybe they just get a surge of users every time Elon does nazi shit and things die down until the nexr thing and we're just in between them right now.
Anyone sharing cumulative user/customer/revenue charts is lying to you. That's worthless data that is deliberately misleading.
I lose trust in Bluesky every time they do it. It should be daily/weekly active users. The fact that they're sharing cumulative numbers tells me the real numbers look bad.
Yeah, it took a bit for everyone to get on the same page about that, but once you see it, it seems obvious.
Like all dev teams, we're trying to figure out new norms for working with AI.
One change we just made is: Code reviewers should not submit comments that came from AI. The author should have AI review the code, but if a PR goes to a human, that doesn't mean "can you ask AI to review this"
So simple. That's a great way to think about it.
I know next to nothing about atproto, but I've seen people complaining that data is public by default so lots of developers are accidentally leaking data they didn't mean to.
It's hard to feel proud of being an American right now. The president is openly bragging about genocide, and the only way to get anyone to give a shit is to point out that it's making gas more expensive.
Awesome, thanks
I hear people talk about how AI-generated marketing sites all look the same, but I haven't personally developed the ability to detect that.
So question for you all, does this website have any obvious AI-generated tells: lacrmsite.vercel.app
Still a work in progress in case that's not clear.
Is it an option to just not sign those customers?
I don't personally enjoy working with bigger customers, so we've just decided to focus on the smaller ones.
I have some dumb person on Ellis island to thank for my last name. Apparently when my dad's family immigrated to the US they had some other last name that started with a k, but the Americans couldn't pronounce it so they just wrote down "king"
I find that if I post right after having a thought, it's not too much of a distraction. Sometimes I think it actually helps me focus because after posting, I'm done thinking and beef to get back to worry
I was this 🤏 close to naming my daughter 4th Ave.
I don't even mind if the entire street is named after someone (still a bit awkward to say, but no big deal). It's when just a small chunk of a larger street is renamed that things go off the rails.
Here in St Louis, "Grand Blvd" turns into "father Biondi SJ Way" for like three blocks and I hate it.
A screenshot of the Firefox toolbar with a big "VPN" graphic that doesn't look like it belongs.
I opened up Firefox just now and saw this. Looks like I clearly got malware somehow, right? That VPN thing looks sooooo bad and sketchy.
Nope, Firefox just added it as a built-in feature and decided to make it look like shit for some reason.
I want to run for mayor on the platform of undoing all the random little sections of streets named after people to honor them.
It's very nice that you're trying to pay tribute to someone, but we use this shit to navigate. Put their name on a bench or something.
I think about this anytime people suggest that we could have an "authored by a human" stamp to prove something isn't AI-generated. If a human wants to grant an AI access to their stamp, how could we possibly stop that?
Scammers are far too resourceful. It's not a battle we can win.
I was once in a mastermind group where two of the people discussed how they get around robocalling regulations by paying a company in India to have a person click a button to initiate every spam call. Just a person clicking a button as fast as they can, and then a bot handles the actual call.
We get this so often. And related things like people who can't log in because they're using the wrong email address. Or they lose access to their account because they cancelled their email.
I don't get how these people are able to function in the modern world.
Do you have a sense of whether he's just amazing at communicating about stuff that would be happening anyway, or if he's actually making it happen?
Either way, props. But e.g. St Louis has major pedestrian/bike improvements going on that started before Spencer but she could still communicate it.
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It's a third party feed, but I've mostly enjoyed it. I don't think my recent complaint is the fault of the algorithm, it's just showing me what people are talking about right now.
I was really enjoying the "for you" feed, but recently it's full of atpro people arguing about whether it's ok to use AI and the arguments are both toxic and boring.
I guess I'll go back to the following feed for a while and hope things die down. I'm glad my immediate follows aren't like that.
I must be following the wrong people, because I haven't seen any of that stuff. Everyone's talking about about how fast they're building, but I don't see any finished products. where are you hearing about them?
I can't believe that Github has gotten so unreliable that we're seriously discussing removing it from our deploy flow. It's great for code reviews, but it's terrifying that we can't deploy to prod when Github is down right now.
Notion has always been slow and buggy, but it was so useful that I didn't mind much.
Recently, that has changed. The performance has gotten noticeably worse, and I've encountered more bugs than ever. It's still an essential tool, but I find myself reaching for anything else before Notion.
Yeah, and we're very careful about feature bloat. We're definitely on the "simple but too basic" side of things for most people right now.
A Trustpilot review saying: Is this integrity I'm sensing?? Is this integrity I'm sensing??? 9month old small business owner here. Getting started, I have been sucked into many a disappointing/scam subscription and have had to set up some base rules after learning things the hard way. Example: use the entire free trial period and only sign up for the one month subscription (you know - bc that reduced annual one has a no-refund policy attached in the event of any issues....). I am 3 days short of my free trial with LA ending and am loving the simplicity for my minimal needs - with options to add automations, forms, and custom fields - along with pipeline management. Yes, other providers offer these things but make it SOOOO complex to utilize - there is definite training needed for use. But with LA it is so user friendly and common sensical - like the next logical step is the actual step! I knew in my first few days of use I was going to sign up. As I went to start the subscription I noticed - weird. $15 a month or $180 a year ($15x12)?....no gimmicky sales lures? Just $15...at my convenience? With three days left I figured I would just sign up today (so I didn't miss it) and eat the last 3 trial days. After inputting my information it showed my next due date was 3/26 - in 3 days. With the the subscription installment due so close to signing up, I assumed (based on my experiences with the ways other companies operate in this space) they were back-charging me for my trial now and then charging me again my next month in 3 days....BUT NOPE!! Imagine my surprise that they were still honoring the additional 3 free days of my trial before billing my new subscription! Just WOW - simple, easy to use, transparent, and fair? Could this be true? I am impressed and if this isn't a fairytale - I just may be a lifer! :)
This might be my favorite review ever. I know that businesses use all the shady tricks for a reason (it works) but every once in a while, it works to just not do any of that crap.
Twitter feels different because of 1000x the scale, and viral loop make very minor improvements matter. But tiny little .01% improvements don't add up at our scale.
Superhuman: I dunno, they caught lightning in a bottle. The fake scarcity playbook is hard to replicate, especially for our customers.
Obviously I have some hope for the polish path or else we wouldn't be doing it. And I definitely think our current business is only as successful as it is because of polish/simplicity. But I think you hit diminishing returns quickly, and more polish just doesn't do much.
