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Replying to: john.philpin.com

BUT NOT the ‘other side’ of the business - like New York Magazine, The Verge and - yeah not many I really track so …

… except that he is buying New York Magazine …

On the upside it is James - not Lachlan.

Replying to: @devilgate

@devilgate Turns out that:

“The vehicle is a 2017 Nissan Armada SUV, unveiled at the 2016 Chicago Auto Show.”

Replying to: blog.numericcitizen.me

@numericcitizen It’s a balance - and I say ‘go’ for it.

To the @herrherrmann point - I also agree - but i don’t think that is what you are doing - if you are a casual reader - as I am on a lot of things - and see an obvious typo in a post headline offering to give me advice - I am likely to move on - [inner thought - if the writer cant even spell why would I trust their advice on tips and tricks in using my mac]. To argue otherwise suggests that I need to know that the writer is not proficient in English … BEFORE I engage - not going to happen. (.. and of course there ar plenty of people with english as a first language that are not proficient in english - its a spectrum.)

Me? Don’t like what I do, say, write? Object to how I produce? Then don’t follow / read - I wil never please everyone - not even in a tight community.

It all comes down to what you are doing and why you are doing it.

And from your point of view - when you declare in your footer

> This website design was entirely built using Claude AI and Claude Code.

I think it makes total sense to do what you are doing.

Replying to: blog.numericcitizen.me

@numericcitizen What I am learning over time that might help

  • be accurate with spelling errors in your prompts.
  • be very very complete with those prompts - first time around.
  • maybe even bash that initial prompt around in other engines to get to the best.
  • you don’t always need the best model - even for code (depending on ow good you are as a programmer).
  • you know that verbose feedback it gives you when it is ‘habing a think’ - yeah - no - tell it to stop - it is using yout tokens to do that.
  • skills docs are your friends.
  • hand off docs are your friends.
  • keep a memory going - and prompt to use it -so to top repating yourself.

There are more - these just off top of my head.

Replying to: lmika.org

@lmika heh - they snoozed. Not you. You should have toasted them with alternative logo facing them as you walked past.

Replying to: ramblinggit.com

@bradenslen The ‘new’ in the final sentence is redundant.

Replying to: @g

@g Seperate but related question if I may. One of your archive links popped up on my site today - seriously - very very useful.

The bonus question is about this opening line.

It is highlighted in a similar - yet different way. I have noticed a few more of these around the site and wondering if they also are from your plugin - and if so what does it mean … because .. despite being marked in this way - the links are in fact active and working. I thought it MIGHT be because the link is http - not https - BUT - this one is https and works.

If not you - apologies for the interruption - and widening my question for my other reader. Do you have any ideas?

Replying to: www.kaa.bz

@kaa You might enjoy this - I need to revisit further - but I think this line of thought starts to unlock what is going on.

Replying to: @numericcitizen

@numericcitizen not sure i find it efficient - and way too opinionated

Replying to: www.manton.org

@manton Sounds like what Hershey’s, cadburys, rowntrees .. and that’s just chocolate companies ,, did when they got started .. forever ago .. and do no longer .. history rhymes.

Replying to: ramblinggit.com

@bradenslen That’s a hell of an echo! Hope you don’t mind me experimenting on your blog❓

Replying to: ramblinggit.com

@bradenslen All of the above.

Replying to: lmika.org
Replying to: @lmika

@lmika Definitely an old one. I worry about the credit - if he and Einstein said everything that people say they said - I am not sure how they ever did what they are really known for.

Replying to: lmika.org

@lmika Henry Ford (supposedly).

Replying to: @bradbarrish

@bradbarrish honored to have your thinking flow into my processes - and not forgotten the Obsidian plugin - life just overtaking me for a while.

Replying to: @manton

@manton aahh - so when i bring in my lettrbox post - it loses THE lettrbox connection in the URL - enhancement request please - you know what it is :-) Thank you

Replying to: @manton

@manton @rom

long - sorry. and one day with time I will tidy it all up as a post … but you’ll get my drift.

we shouldn’t confuse an iPhone with a phone - it is a very capable very small computer. It hasn’t been a phone for years. It might always stay that way - I still find myself hoovering floors - not dysoning them.

The iPhone eco system? It sits on top of the Apple ecosystem.

AND

Apple Mission: : To bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.

What Apple Does: Apple is a technology company that “designs, manufactures, and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and online services.”

Apple’s Category : Were I to put them in a single category - ‘consumer electronics’ ?

Choose any one of them … AI devices are clearly part of their story and will sit in/on whatever the eco system is.

ipod arrived 3 years after the first commercially available portable player

airpods 12 years after the first bluetooth headphones appeared

apple watch came 2 years after pebble watch

we can all choose our device and highlight that apple follows

same as it ever was - what Apple wins at is getting it (nearly) right before release, watch mistakes as they are made by others - and themselves - and of course an extraordinary long vision into where they are going with an unmatched PESC for manufacturing in the age of reason - which won’t be going anywhere any time soon - and a nascent - but still leading and ever developing - CEDN as the world transitions into the the age of experience.

As for AI destined to always be secondary?

How far out are we looking? And what is an AI device - exactly?

Apple has had a lot of AI in its little computer for a while now - at what point does it turn into an ‘AI device’?

Humans operate with 5 or 6 senses - depending on your perspective - that inform our brains we have also processes like gesture, tone, body language etc that all add up to how we engage.

  • phone: i can see a screen - I can touch a screen - i can talk to a screen - I can listen to the sound - can’t yet smell or taste
  • airpods - I can hear sound - not just from a computer - ambient sound - even as hearing aids and shortly cameras - no smell of taste
  • glasses - yet to be released - but when they do - will have a similar combo

etc etc

and we also have gestures - as input - not a sense - but we have already got gestures for and output

bottom line NONE of this matters until the I/O is aggregated and we have triangulated and checked and made sense of things (our brain does that)

the pocket in your computer does aspects of that in the tech world - and that requires processing power - the computer in your pocket - your local and personal hub - and definitely NOT on Sam and Jonys new device talking to the cloud and the borg - without my express request.

Failure to take this road takes us down the Pluribus route.

Replying to: www.manton.org

@manton Very nice. All episodes in my life in one place this is great. I wonder if there is a way for the list to show movies and shows that I have posted from places like Letterboxd .. in my world I use all the same tags .. how is this list generating? it clearly isn’t just tags.

Replying to: lmika.org

@lmika Delighted that my role as translator remains intact.