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fasterandworse

@fasterandworse@hci.social

Design enthusiast. An Australian in Amsterdam

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fasterandworse, to random
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Just sit tight for 3 months

fasterandworse,
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@Gargron he said he’s on sabbatical since Feb 1 through to May https://ma.tt/2024/02/samattical/

aral, to random
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Folks in tech need to have a long, hard think about who else used to monetise people.

fasterandworse,
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@aral folks in tech need to ask themselves more often “is this optimism or is this marketing?”

tante, to random
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Holy shit, WordPress.com/Automattic is really trying to destroy all the goodwill it has built over years.

Selling user posts to "AI" companies is such a breach of trust and an insult. It negates any respect for user contribution that is the basis for a good and sustainable relationship.

https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/112004850884204466

fasterandworse,
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@tante fuck, that’s depressing. Wordpress is more “front page of the internet” than Reddit

fasterandworse, to random
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“We have this technology, what can we apply it to?” is shifting deliberation from the means to the ends.

It’s anti-design.

fasterandworse,
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@benjaoming I like the hammer example because it highlights the advantage digital products have. We call it software and it’s all in the cloud. At least when software came in boxes we were more inclined to ask what it was for. “Why does it occupy that space on the display shelf?”

fasterandworse,
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@benjaoming there is also the imposed software. Enterprise SaaS opened up the doors for a lot of stuff where “UX” begins with “I use this because I have to, not because I want, or need, to”

fasterandworse,
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@benjaoming it’s my fault, I wasn’t clear. I meant that in UX design there is a method of mapping “user stories” where you say “as an X I want Y so that Z” kind of thing. But in enterprise SaaS you’re going to be dealing with end-users who have been told “this is what we use” which doesn’t make for a flattering user story.

Incidentally, UX design has been reduced to Figma and its ways. So your understanding of what I said is also true :)

fasterandworse, to random
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Tech should call additional features complications like watchmakers do

tante, to random
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If you are super into generative AI (art) I just assume that you don't like to be challenged or ever faced with anything out of the norm.

fasterandworse,
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@tante looks like we wrote a similar sentiment in different words around the same time https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/111959095405015952

fasterandworse,
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@tante oh, honoured.

fasterandworse, to random
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Jakob Nielsen’s all-in on AI is melting my brain.

From his latest newsletter: https://jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p/ux-roundup-20240219

fasterandworse,
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I need to document this crap.

fasterandworse,
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@rdp @tante I feel like "shared experience" is a defining factor of entertainment. Either sharing among an audience or an entertainer sharing with an audience. When you make your own entertainment, just for you, you're just playing with yourself

fasterandworse,
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@tante yeah, even solitary means are generally for a shared ends.

baldur, to random
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“ChatGPT 4 fails at solving a Captcha and progress is slow”

"Some things feel fast because they are being completely misrepresented and don’t work the way they are portrayed. More often than you think there is a person behind the curtain playing the role of the computer." https://axbom.com/chatgpt-surprisingly-bad-at-solving-a-captcha/

fasterandworse,
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@baldur @zzt https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/111941956559367983

danmcquillan, to random
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But impressive in what sense, beyond the technical? When considering any real world application, it is depressing rather than impressive.

fasterandworse,
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@danmcquillan @zzt mechanism porn. Same for blockchains.

fasterandworse, to random
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Don't like seeing web design OGs pushing generative AI stuff. Reminds me of aging James Hetfield and Lars Ulrich telling Kirk not to do his guitar solos because the kids aren't into it.

fasterandworse, to random
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I love how every visualisation of git concepts maintains the mystique

aral, to streaming
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Well I’ve almost got my new live streaming/recording environment set up again in the new place and I can’t wait to start recording some new Kitten and Small Web videos again.

#streaming #recording #video #setup #Kitten #SmallWeb

fasterandworse,
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@aral where do you stream?

fasterandworse,
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@aral @owncast followed!

axbom, to random
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My prediction for today is that more and more employees will start writing down texts that argue for their own vision to be realised, but they will write it as if it was an AI output.

Because they know management will listen to an AI but not to them.

fasterandworse,
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@axbom and the gaslighting will continue

fasterandworse, to random
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Being jealous of other's productivity takes up a lot of my time

fasterandworse,
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@tante The power I wish I could have back is the ability to stay up and get to work when everyone goes to bed

fasterandworse,
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@tante you know what I think gets in the way the most for me? It' not being too tired to stay up, it's a fear of being so focused on work that I stay up too late and ruin the next day

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