I was and still am skeptical of "AI" or more accurately the proliferation of LLMs. But, I think some nuance in the discussions around it have been lost overtime. I actually think the reason I'm a skeptic, and why that nuance has been lost are interlinked though: Capitalism/Hype Bandwagoning.
Companies are just chasing $$$ by following a fad, enshitifying their products in the process. But I do think there are applications that can be actually useful to its end users, and profitable to business
The example currently on my mind comes from what I'm doing at work. And that despite my heavy skepticism, I've become "Mr. AI" at my job.
Currently I'm working on an AI powered chat experience that homeowners can interact with to answer questions about their improvement projects and even get dynamic cost estimation from some of our APIs. It costs the homeowner nothing to use, but eventually (what I'm currently doing anyway) it will have a monetization/conversion hook added to the flow.
Do I hate this persistent march to monetize any and every aspect of the human condition? Hell yes, it's garbage for species and society.
But it can be done in a natural way that isn't so in your face. If a homeowner is asking questions about doing kitchen renovation, on our site designed to help them find both the information and contractors to help/do the work, there is a non-forced way to eventually ask "wanna fill out this form to find contractors?"
That doesn't sound inherently "evil"
Looking for advice here. How would (or do you) go about writing down how you do something? I don’t necessarily mean a how-to guide or tutorial, but the actual steps or process you take to accomplish something. For example, I’ve been asked/suggested to give a presentation how I do my software architecting job. And all that comes up in my mind is “idk I just do it?” The approach can change from situation to situation, so I don’t exactly have a 1, 2, 3 step guide I could present.
@chris this is gonna be a fun read in the morning lol
@chris I went from "I don't know who the hell this guy is" to "surface level, points make sense, but there's gotta be a better way than being an ass about it".
Or as I just saw, "there's gotta be a better way that doesn't get you and the company you represent sued" lol.
I also think you're out of WPE and WordPress if I remember correctly so, probably being overly cautious on my end but don't want to also come across as an ass while gaining more context.
@chris Don't disagree with the hypocrisy one bit. The guy seems to be throwing rocks from his glass house, or whatever that saying is.
I like your initial questions, I think they are fare, and I don't have a solid answer as I'm just not familiar at all with the Wordpress scene semi by choice and opinion of the project, mostly by circumstance. But I think they could be applied to WPE as well.
Not discrediting your work on Faust FWIW in case it came off that way.
@chris Apologies for basically re-opening the wound more or less, but outside of Matt's delivery being... dickish, the comments didn't seem outlandish to me. If WPE is profiting off the landscape but not contributing, etc. that seems bad.
I mean I know WPE has some PHP related tech that would be great for the community, but isn't sharing. Which is their prerogative, but a bummer.
I still can’t figure out what I want to use the domain neighbors.social for.. outside of a “give Namecheap money yearly” bucket.
Inspired by the recent “parse, don't validate" conversations, I had the thought to make a composer package for #Laravel that basically replaced the FormRequest concept with a “ParsedRequest" concept. Effectively defining a request object that instead of running input through the validator, it would parse the input onto your custom ParsedRequest and have everything just there and typed.
Currently stuck on if ParsedRequest should extend FormRequest to keep validation func. still working, or not.
The high of finally figuring something out, and getting a test to pass cannot be beat. At least not without doing actual drugs that get you high, but I digress.
I have the beginnings of sticking @Romm's Valinor project into the #Laravel framework. Basic Laravel bindings and configuration are done for a 0.0.1 version. And finally got a working PoC for a ParsedRequest idea I have to compliment/replace FormRequests. Much more to go
I’ve kinda lost my programming “muse” at the moment, but don’t necessarily want to let this project idea die on the vine. So I’ve made https://github.com/hskrasek/laravel-valinor public in case anyone is inspired and would love to see Valinor incorporated into #Laravel. Will hopefully have the motivation to return to the idea in the future.
It’s weird to seesaw from finally feeling somewhat hopeful this year, after politics in my country made a turn for the better, to this feeling of being unmoored from reality/society. I know that sounds like dissociating, but this isn’t that. I unfortunately am quite familiar with what that feels like.
This is more just being unhappy with, and unable to connect with what is our current reality. That knowing that we as a people could do better, but don’t. And seemingly won’t, anytime soon. 🙃
What is the cut off point where an object passes from 3D to 2D? Paper is often used as the example of a 2D object, but technically paper has a third dimension. Its height, while incredibly small, still exists. Tried to look it up… and got a bunch of AutoCAD tutorials, which isn’t really what I wanted lol
Alright folks, going to try this #FediHire thing for two folks I know not on the Fediverse. My company Quinstreet did layoffs last week, and unfortunately two people I know were affected. Not for performance reasons, just simple money saving reasons. So hit me up if you have leads for these roles:
* Senior Frontend Engineer
* Content/Creative Strategy, Branding, Customer Journey Mapping, SEO Editorial and Content Ops., Social Media (Paid and Organic) <- Very talented wearer of many hats
Boost?
Well I'm still frustrated at how much I got boned by AA trying to get home. But I've at least met / "made friends" with a bunch of nice people, also stuck for various reasons.
Either I was incredibly lucky in the past, or flying really has just gotten worse and worse over the years.
Well since I'm stuck at the airport in Chicago until ~7am, guess I'll get to work on a new #PHP #ActivityPub project @ian inspired me to do. The end goal is to create a easy to setup and host Single User, Mastodon/ActivityPub compliant application.
Part of this is born out of the fact that, I setup my own Mastodon instance. I helped setup the phpc.social instance... and then I just forgot to maintain my own instance lol. I'm so far behind on updates, it's embarrassing.
Traveling via air with celiacs, especially when that travel overlaps with meal times, is effectively deciding if shit junk food is worth it. Or just… not eating? Frustration levels at everything in DFW being fucking closed is through the roof
@misty I read your recent article about GitHub feeling legacy or antiquated and found it very interesting. I was wondering if anyone’s reached out to you with suggestions/if you’re planning to share any of those
@dansup Im looking at building an ActivityPub/mastodon compatible app in PHP, kinda similar to that Wildebeest thing CloudFlare did. Any tips or pointers on getting started/testing things work?
From the annals of my memory, the entire scene and song from Anastasia, Once Upon a December is now stuck/hyper focused in my mind.
I am incredibly dysregulated at the moment. I hate that I am, and that incredible amounts of rage and anger got me this way. Bleh
I've got this idea around building something that could be used for an OpenAPI workshop/tutorial, but I am trying to think of the lowest friction possible around a “user" concept. The absolute best I can think of at the moment, is that landing on the tool has a “login" step that is just entering a username/email and thats it. You get cookied on that device for the duration of the workshop, and boom.
Overthinking it (probably, always)? Got a better idea? Bueller?
The fastest way to make a permanent solution, is to make a temporary one.
I said this to my boss sometime last year, and as I found out recently he still remembers/thinks about it.
At this point I can’t even remember if I thought of that phrase, or saw it somewhere else.
