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Recently I was looking for some placeholder images for an app I was building.
In the past I've used unsplash, but its overly complex for just:
get me a pic, specific or random, this size, grayscale, blured etc.
Enter picsum
Small, perfectly formed quality of life improvement.
Its the little things.
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The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men Gang aft agley
I've been toying with an idea for a project for quite a long time.
I think it could be great, and if successful, could potentially be a small business.
"Ideas are easy" they say and they're right.
It takes commitment and time away from other pursuits.
I've certainly become more discerning as I've aged, but it might be time to stop the procrastinating and get building.
It will be fun. It will be hell.
I don't even know the things I don't know I'll need to know.
But one step a time.
I'll see how it goes.
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I ask it questions and it tell me things.
Sometimes it is confidently incorrect.
I have to know the correct answer first of course, therein lies the rub
Its a magic box, spitting out wonders.
I'm cursing, same mistake on a loop.
It's the prompts.
Or maybe the skills.
Easy as MCP.
Not enough context.
Why can't it remember things, we already covered that.
It stalled again... <continue>
It's just fancy predictive text.
It's a pattern finding machine.
It's NOT AI, its a large language model
It's too expensive!
It's so cheap!
It's so productive!
It's killing productivity!
It's great for learning.
It's teaching me junk.
I only verify the stuff I suspect.
How much slips under the radar? Lots
Creeping into daily life; an opiate of convenience.
It's the future.
It's a dead end.
Hype
Slop
Bots
Cost
Datacentres
Power
Water
Jobs
War
Poison
All these things and more.
AI is wonderful
AI is terrible.
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