You have to be doing this willfully. This is obtuse

instantly awesome.

I suck at chinese but I want to get better and I'm too embarassed to try and talk with real people and practise.

This is a great compromise. even just practising for a few minutes I already feel way more confident based on its feedback, and I feel like I know more about the details of pronunciation.

I'm worried this might get too big and start sucking like everything else.

I see this as "my problem is to grow these people" so I don't solve anything for them

I think it's just a case is perspective

I feel more useful now more than anything.

The amount of ai generated planning and fluffy workloads that I've been able to just delete from the team has saved the company many engineering hours. Not least of all in bugs.

Value your expertise and experience. It's only greeting more valuable, not less.

It's great that this is a case for you.

I actually enjoy process of writing code, understanding deeply the system I work on, finding elegant solutions to business problems - not just a list of checkboxes with features for a given sprint that agent churns in background. Sure, practically I understand that business doesn't care how well something is written as long as it works somewhat reliably. I might eventually adapt to this new horrible reality of developers who have no idea what's going on in the codebase they "work" on.

You can still understand a system deeply and find elegant solutions, and use LLMs to translate your idea into code, then review the code. It's still much faster than writing everything by hand in a lot of cases, if done properly.

Reviewing code that was written by somebody else is one of the least fun and enjoyable activities in my experience . I personally don't know any programmers who enjoy process of doing PR reviews.

If you only care about number of features Copilot implements for you or lines of code Claude Code gave you - you must be a manager.

I really don't mind PR reviews, as long as the author is cooperative. I do not like arguing over obvious things with someone who isn't participating in good faith. Thankfully I have a good team in which it doesn't happen.

Writing slowly is a boon.

I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.

I make an effort to talk to people and now we have "come over to dinner" friendships with people we met at a public park.

> I think the real cause of the loneliness epidemic is that the older generation never taught us how to socialise and make friends.

That is false. First because most of the social learning is done by mimicking what others do and we certainly all saw our parents invite and get invited to stuff.

Plus there is school which is the #1 place where your learn to socialize and make friends.

I actually like that. ambitious!

the issue I have is that I want to have some apps that will need to be approved somehow. banking for starters, but some other things as well.

I just got the bigme hibreak pro, which is an e-ink android phone, and while I loved it in all cases, I realised it was a total dealbreaker that the Android Auto navigation was broken (something to do with their display chip couldn't report the right display size, I also want to be able to take and look at colour pictures. so e-ink didn't quite work for me there.)

Otherwise, I love the idea of this!

I think I would like a bit of an escape hatch: maybe have the normal web-browser that's accessible under like 4 or 5 clicks.

The big issue isn't just that these phones are set up to be addictive, but they are also too legitimately useful in other situations as well. I use facebook to scroll AND check marketplace. I use instagram to scroll AND talk to friends.

so some friction is necessary, but some friction is a total dealbreaker. if I can't bank or navigate, then the change of phone had affected me too much for me to not counteract my whole life needs to change in some way.

I've been thinking about this often, because i wanted the hibreak to work.. I actually think there needs to be some sort of "Life OS" where we can get told how to live in this new world where we can't check our phones as often. Do we include "look at a physical map" as part of our routine or do we just allow android auto to work and accept that it might be an avenue of leaking through some content? (not a great example)

That's so funny, i made the same thing. Looks to function exactly the same.

https://quickfit.dre-west.workers.dev/projects. (click "signin as guest" -- the signup doesn't work so don't worry about that. a friend added it so I could save and access on different computers but we ended up not finishing it)

this is beautiful, thank you :)

Thank you!

I dunno, he might have just been reading too much that he really writes like this now. I've seen it happen.

no, definitely not. It was 100% LLM written. Look at their post history.

And reduce demand, by not importing 3% year on year, where we can't keep up