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  • I use AI as a rubber duck, to compliment the rubber ducks on my desk when they don’t give enough feedback. So it’s use is mostly conceptual, I find that models that provide “thinking” output perhaps more useful than whatever its actual answer is because it asks questions about edge cases I might not have considered.

    As for code generation, I hate it. It outputs garbage, forgets things, hallucinates, and whatever thing it writes I’ll have to rewrite anyway to actually make it compile.

    As I’m fairly isolated at work I think it makes a good pair programmer partner, so to speak. Offering suggestions that I can take into consideration and research heavily if I think it’s a good one.



  • Yes, but that it can be temperamental and finicky. If you have a rooted phone currently you need to trick a different service called play protect into thinking that your device is kosher, so to speak; different updates from Google can and have broken the processes that have worked in the past.

    Needless to say a solution needs to be robust, the possibility to not access your gov id because a private company changed a process and decides you don’t get to use the same loophole you’ve used till now isn’t great from a technical or security standpoint. I would imagine it’s even more frustrating for non-US citizens as their government is relying on a foreign company with a notably bad track record of keeping services available.

    It’s not that such a technology is hard to make, it’s more about adoption. Even better than a particular product we could gather around would be a set of standards that the community could build various products around (so long as they meet those standards). That however feels unlikely from the current US administration and based on the EU’s recent GitHub proclamation on their age verification act.


  • I don’t know if they’d even be up for it but at this point I think the best option would be Framework getting into it as theyre already trusted by the community.

    But even if we get the hardware down there’s another issue - we need an open source, government approved, bank approved Wallet app. There’s only Google or Apple wallet to store important documents on Mobile at the moment. Frustratingly, some governments are using only those two as a source for national verification which is obviously a problem.


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    Looking through some of the docs I’m afraid I won’t be able to move off of Typst to this either. Typst has a long standing bug that I would have liked to avoid (lists that are too long will overflow memory and the maintainers seem to not want to temporarily dump to disk) but if even rust has an issue with those 100k+ row lists, I’m not sure kotlin will handle it better.









  • Just as an interesting “what if” scenario - a human making the effort to stylize Van Gogh is okay, and the problem with the AI model is that it can spit out endless results from endless sources.

    What if I made a robot and put the Van Gogh painting AI in it, never releasing in elsewhere. The robot can visualize countless iterations of the piece it wants to make but its only way share it is to actually paint it - much in the same way a human must do the same process.

    Does this scenario devalue human effort? Is it an acceptable use of AI? If so does that mean that the underlying issue with AI isn’t that it exists in the first place but that its distribution is what makes it devalue humanity?

    *This isn’t a “gotcha”, I just want a little discussion!