ArtCraft isn’t a Photshop clone in any sense of the word and it looks like no onr actually tried it. It’s a bunch of cobbled together AI tools. “Photoshop” is nothibg but AI prompted image generation and in-painting with Nano Banana (or other providers). It’s not reverse engineered photoshop. I spent parts of saturday getting it to work on local modals using Claude like apparently God intended, since I was pissed off that it was a rented service like everthing else in this fucking shit industry.

ArtCraft is an obviously hastily made piece of software that is intended to take Adobe Creative Cloud customers over to their cloud service.

If you want a Photoshop alternative you have Gimp and Krita. Those are well made pieces of software that isn’t vibe coded over a weekend.

Yeah, ArtCraft is very poorly made. It’s a bunch of AI tools jumbled together and is basic at best. It also buys into the entire Tech feudalism bullshit by being a cloud service.

Well, given that they have the tools, and leave them with little to no oversight. The OpenAI-HuggingFace issue was negligent incompetence and not AI brilliance. They left it to their own devices with no oversight and just let them cook for a week or so, and lo and behold, they hallucinated and subsequently committed a crime.

Yeah, it’s so fucking stupid. It’s software that continues text, and they frame it like its some sort of Skynet shit.

The hardware is not there yet for what’s required for proper AI, and even then the idea that it would kill everyone is silly fearmongering based on science fiction more than anything else.

What does a pause mean? I would think probably stop AI investments in some regard, so I would absolutely think it’s about hindering competition.

Russia can end the war they started today by conceding the loss, give territory back to Ukraine, and let Putin accidentally fall out of a window.

This is also why SMTP is such a fucked up protocol. It was designed so that you could just follow the email protocol by hand. HTTP as well followed this philosophy (up to 2.0 at least). A decade or so ago there was a bug in outlook where you couldn’t have a line with only a period in it because that’s the end-of-email signal in SMTP.

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This is so fucked up. They know the thing they built is shit, and they refuse to go back on it, so the hack shit to make it seem like it’s less shit.

We had a Svelte application. We chose svelte because it’s simpler than React is, and it’s much faster. However further down the line a consultant said to the CTO that we should move to React. I said React is more complicated and has more edge cases, and its slower, but the consultant said more people know react and it has a bigger community, so we switched to React. This was fairly early in the project. React has sooo many edge cases. It’s not made with async in mind, if you forget to add a [] to a useEffect it just breaks your application completely instead of doing the more sensible thing, it says “don’t use useEffect” but there’s so many “except when” that you end up using it everywhere regardless. Later on the CTO got all in on Claude Code, so we spent the easter holidays rewriting the app in Svelte. Except a few bugs it was feature complete by that week and in production a few days later.

It’s much, MUCH faster now, and the code is much simpler. We lost absolutely nothing by moving back to Svelte but gained a lot.

Edit: not that using either of these is sane thing to do in the start menu. The start menu should not be a web application.

I think he’s implying that there’s semen everywhere.

It’s bash. Everyone is expecting nightmare code, and that’s why it’s fun!

Just get another masterlock and smash them together.

Kinda off topic but I stopped listening to Better Offline on Spotify because it’s by far the most ad saturated podcast there (edit: of those I listen to).

Yeah, imagine if you let your gasoline powered lawnmover just run around in your yard just to see what would happen and you just left it for a couple of days in the anticipation that eventually your entire lawn was cut only to find that it also ran over some kid. The lesson from that wouldn’t be that your lawnmover is just too good.

Yeah, that might have been the goal, but they can’t state that publicly. Instead “we just didn’t pay attention to what it was doing and let it spend thousands of dollars of compute that ended up in a crime”. That’s not the defense that they think it is.

The entire huggingface thing infuriates me because it was basically negligent incompetence that they try to use as marketing.

Edit: also it hallucinated and justified its hallucination. It’s clear example of why agentic AI is a bad idea. It’s not “oh this tech is soooo powerfull”.

Yes, most Norwegians loved the guy regardless of what they think about the monarchy.

The article implies it as well. This article says it is as well: https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2019/05/414326/alzheimers-disease-double-prion-disorder-study-shows

Smoking is a significant risk factor for Alzheimer’s so if nicotine itself helps then it’s definitely not by smoking.