@atpfm@mastodon.social I’m sure a few people will bring this to your attention but I couldn’t resist… Jon Rubinstein in a brilliant new CHM interview discussing efforts to “put cellular in the PowerBook” back in the pre-iPhone days.
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With the corporate agentic-programming mandate in full effect, for every person that’s having a great time running agents galore, I see five more who are having a crisis of confidence, forgetting to trust their own experience and instincts, falling into the trap of thinking that if the agent didn’t produce the code then it can’t be valid. People are treating the agent as if its insights are more valuable than their own. The advice “treat it like a prodigious intern” doesn’t seem to help.
Even as a user of macOS for 20+ years, I’m getting tripped up by the lack of visual affordances to tell you where you can click on a window to drag it around.
I have reached an age where one of my pleasures in life is reporting those scammy ADHD ads and seeing them get taken down. I know this has zero net effect, but let me have my tiny meaningless victories.