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what people seem to miss is that you still ship it after 2 hours
dont drag it out 6 months, whatever it is
product market fit is found with speed not perfection
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I'm going to be real with y'all for a minute. I am so, so tired of voice-to-text.
I like typing. I can communicate exactly what I'm thinking without having to reserve mental energy to get the thing out of my head. The keys I press are the letters that appear on my screen. I can type quickly. I can get my ideas out quickly. It's great.
Because of my hand injuries and my cast, I am not able to type. This has forced me to become a power user of voice-to-text tools. They're not as bad as I expected. It was even a bit pleasant once I got the hang of it. But the more I use them, the closer I get to throwing my laptop out a window.
When I screw up typing, I get like 1-2 letters wrong, and usually you can tell what was meant. Fixing the mistakes only takes a few seconds.
When Wispr Flow fails to translate what I said, it removes and swaps random words in my statement, turning it into jumbled nonsense.
It regularly removes keywords from sentences, like "not", "never", and "before".
Do you know how big a gap there is between "never merge a change like this" and "merge a change like this"? Do you know how frustrating and embarrassing it is when actual damage is done by a Wispr Flow hallucination? Do you know how tiring it is to reread everything I just said, right after I said it, carefully checking that every word was transcribed correctly? Do you know how miserable it is having zero confidence that the thing you're trying to say will actually come out correct?
It's so fatiguing. It is making computers miserable. I don't know how people live like this. I hate it. I want nothing more than to be able to type again.
Given the choice between the ability to type and the ability to speak, I would legitimately be willing to give up my voice if it meant I never had to feel this way again.
I'm just now realizing how much more irritable, frustrated, and miserable I have been for the past month because I can't use a computer in a way that is pleasant. I legitimately feel the sanity leaking out of my head every time I have to hit the Wispr Flow button.
To everybody I've been ghosting or slow to respond to lately, I'm sorry. Know that I want to, but my inability to use a computer is driving me mad, and I don't want to respond when I feel like this. I'd much prefer to wait and give you the response you deserve rather than a pissed-off pile of slop like I would be able to do today.
I had to make 12 corrections to the following tweet before I could post. Making those corrections took significantly longer than typing would have taken (if my hand worked).
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Peer Richelsen retweeted
the moat is literally just caring about your work and being proud of your output and holy shit it does not seem to apply to 99% of people
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Peer Richelsen retweeted
i increased happiness 749% when i realized building an elaborate AI system was just productivity cosplay
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I'm getting increasingly tired of thinking about reasoning effort levels.
In the near future, models will reason as much or as little as needed, and we'll feel silly for exposing 5+ options in a dropdown.
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a product can be technically flexible and still feel rigid
that usually happens when users have to understand your internal model before they can do something simple
the product knows how it works
the user should not have to
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AI settled all framework debates
using sveltekit? sure
using nextjs? i dont care
using nuxt? whatever
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