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@xssfox You have a new bear shit in your myWoods inbox.
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I have been thinking a lot lately about how AI would seem less impressive to the average user if consumer tech wasn’t appliance-ified and hostile to programmability and approachable-learning-curve automation for people whose main job isn’t programming, but this thread articulates similar ideas better and in far more depth than I could have: https://kolektiva.social/@beka_valentine/116845902656397041
beka valentine@beka_valentine@kolektiva.socialin particular, there are a lot of software-related skills which were either never properly developed into novice-friendly forms, or which were left to languish and complexity and die over the last 20 years as the idea of the novice ceased to be widely recognized as real
My entire email inbox is just wall to wall “Notification of a Bear Shitting in The Woods”and at this point I need literally everyone to stop and think “is this particular event in this particular system really something that people need to receive, open, and read an email about?”