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down with Whatever eev.ee/blog/2025/07...

afterthought 1 — "Finally, art is democratized," proclaims area programmer man making $200k per year. "No longer is it held solely in the hands of the elites: furry porn artists struggling to pay rent"

afterthought 2 — clear bridge between "you can't customize LLMs like you can tools" and the almost comical unpredictability of image generation, where getting the same character twice is a crapshoot. but i didn't want to get into image stuff too much or the post would've been twice as long

afterthought 4 — apparently the author of the *cough* anonymous quote meant it the opposite way, so i have hastily edited in a disclaimer to that effect bsky.app/profile/simo...

afterthought 5 — you could probably add a bridge of """the metaverse""" in here, but every time i think about it i just remember World Baby and i can't ever take it any more seriously than that

afterthought 6 — i once heard A Hater was telling people not to even visit my website, so i wouldn't get the ad revenue. but there were no ads. i'm guessing they used adblock and just took for granted that there would be ads they weren't seeing, because what website doesn't have ads? (mine)

The other week I remembered World Baby and went to see if it still exists, and it turns out they are still making releases with big change logs and announcements as if anyone is still reading them.

One of my friends - very clever guy even though terrifyingly normal (fintech programmer, hobby seems to be buying expensive things), who I used to really respect as a good programmer has pivoted to saying "I don't understand why anyone would program without chatgpt" and like, im so confused

This is a person whose entire career was doing programming for a type of system he was exceptionally good at, in a framework he knew almost by heart. What purpose does he have to just throw that into the wind and hope the correct answer is blown back at his face? I cannot answer this.

I agree with basically everything in this article. I tried using some of these tools out of curiosity once, and because I was trying to do something very weird I wasn’t sure how to do. It sent me down a like 10 hour rabbit hole trying increasingly more elaborate workarounds which didn’t work…

… apologizing profusely each time. Until I found out, to my horror and embarrassment, I had looked at an outdated version of the docs when I began and there was actually just a fucking global variable built in that could do exactly what I needed in the latest version

Despite doing like, idk ten? separate queries, detailed ones, it never picked up that I could actually grab what I needed from that variable instead of doing elaborate tricks to try and extract it