> To be clear, I don't advocate outright deception > in most cases.
> To be clear, I don't advocate outright deception > in most cases. "Most cases" ?? Usually the deception has already been perpetrated to get people to go to the page in the first place. Some shiny new thing is announced, it looks good, it looks interesting, I go to the site ... "Not ready yet - sign here to get an invitation to join the beta test when it's ready." I'm already there under false pretenses. It's incredibly frustrating, and happening more and more. To "actively take steps never to use your service" doesn't make much sense to me: I definitely understand the frustration that comes from having a pain point, then finding what appears to be a solution, only to be disappointed. If you have a real pain though, surely you'd want to know when the solution was ready, since it sounded like a good enough solution when you clicked on the ad? a) Usually these things lie on the margins - I don't remember the last time anyone addressed any real pain points - everything is slightly more convenient. b) When I feel like I've been deceived, when something appears to have been promised and then it turns out not to exist, I ask myself: Why should I trust these people at all, ever? c) I know it's a ploy, and I'm getting tired of it. If something's genuinely good, really worth my time, so excellent that I immediately see that I will save time, money, effort, and frustration, then of course I'll use it. What's the last service you saw that genuinely delivers on such a promise?
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I mean that's the problem though.
I've always believed the opposite: get conditionals deep in your code so that the higher level control flow is regular.
The biggest problem with AI isn't being able to do things.
I am a 3D printing maker type nerd (I make my own tools for other creative tasks, rather than as their own outcomes) and I saw an incredi...
Of course not, those are clearly scams.
Claude makes more detailed plans that seem better if you just skim them, but when analyzed, has a lot of errors, usually.
Effectively everyone is building the same tools with zero quantitative benchmarks or evidence behind the why / ideas … this entire s...
> creating and operating a small company in Germany is a nightmare To be fair, I think the problem operating in Germany is its federated...
> To be clear, I don't advocate outright deception > in most cases.
> To be clear, I don't advocate outright deception > in most cases. "Most cases" ?? Usually the deception has already been perpetrated to get people to go to the page in the first place. Some shiny new thing is announced, it looks good, it looks interesting, I go to the site ... "Not ready yet - sign here to get an invitation to join the beta test when it's ready." I'm already there under false pretenses. It's incredibly frustrating, and happening more and more. To "actively take steps never to use your service" doesn't make much sense to me: I definitely understand the frustration that comes from having a pain point, then finding what appears to be a solution, only to be disappointed. If you have a real pain though, surely you'd want to know when the solution was ready, since it sounded like a good enough solution when you clicked on the ad? a) Usually these things lie on the margins - I don't remember the last time anyone addressed any real pain points - everything is slightly more convenient. b) When I feel like I've been deceived, when something appears to have been promised and then it turns out not to exist, I ask myself: Why should I trust these people at all, ever? c) I know it's a ploy, and I'm getting tired of it. If something's genuinely good, really worth my time, so excellent that I immediately see that I will save time, money, effort, and frustration, then of course I'll use it. What's the last service you saw that genuinely delivers on such a promise?
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