tylerking.app
Professional hater. Co-founder / CEO of Less Annoying CRM. I talk about bootstrapping, tech, entrepreneurship, and business practices that annoy me.
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Apple could really learn from the design of...apple. My Macbook has a notch, and there's a system bar running across the top of the screen so software doesn't have to fill in the space to the sides of the notch.
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Ugh I hate those. As rule, if someone is emailing me on someone else's behalf to try to get them on my podcast, I instantly mark it as spam. At least spam me yourself you cowards.
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I got the impression that you just connect it to GitHub so it wouldn't really need any kind of terminal it local file access
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Huh, ok. Although I think "agent" is a broader term in AI that maybe Cursor is using in that specific way. Like, I've seen a lot of agents that have nothing to do with coding. I don't get the impression that Codex is meant to be used in a code editor.
But "it does the work directly" seems right.
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Do you have a sense of what it means for Cursor to be an "agent" vs. Cursor? I get the impression that Cursor isn't really meant to be an apples-to-apples alternative to Cursor, although it would be a replacement (like, I don't think you're interacting with it via a code editor if I'm not mistaken)
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So little is understood about human learning/thought that I think people are way too quick to say that AI can't possibly think the way we do.
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Over-discussed: How AI thinks
Under-discussed: How humans think
My wife is a psych professor. I asked some of her colleagues whether it's possible that humans learn the same way as AI (basically copying patterns from learning data) and their answer was, "yeah, maybe that's how we learn too"
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Yeah, I think the question is what devs will be doing in the future. Previous levels of abstraction seemed to work bottom up so you could just ignore the low-level stuff. This level seems to be targeting the middle. Like, you still need to know how things work in order to use AI well (for now)
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A number of my friends are college professors, and they're very concerned with the skills (especially coding and analysis) of the current generation of college students. It's not their fault, but they're going to be in for a world of hurt when they enter the workforce.
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I've also felt conflicted, but our only real option is to participate in society.
But that's still not permission to get in on every terrible grift that exists. To me, the US economy has gone from "hold my nose while I participate" to "this is a straight-up scam and I shouldn't be a part of it"
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Yup. I was previously about 80/20 VTSAX/VTIAX. Now I'm gradually moving into 100% VTIAX (I'm at about 40/60 so far).
Again, I'm not exactly predicting that VTIAX will outperform VTSAX, but investing in something is an endorsement in that thing, and I can't endorse how the US is running right now.
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I just fixed my power recliner this way after trying about a dozen more complex things
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Maybe a bit, but I think it's mostly just the tone of the conversational bits. ChatGPT is a bit too formal and agreeable.
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I also feel like a huge fucking loser saying that
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The main one is Docker. Every time I start my computer, Apple tells me it blocked Docker from running even though I (thought I) uninstalled it.
Also ran into an issue with Laravel Herd getting corrupted somehow, and doing a fresh install wasn't working it wasn't fully uninstalled
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Both ChatGPT and Claude are answering the "how do I *actually* uninstall this app" question with "run these six commands in the terminal".
Is this right? Am I missing something? It's basically just impossible to fully uninstall apps from a Mac without using the terminal?
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I come from a very "self serve" background which is still where I like to focus, but there are some problems that just can't be solved with self service, but can *easily* be solved with a bit of help from support.
I'm thinking that for LACRM, automations will be this way.
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It's hard to say without specifics, but I think it's important for the founder to be proud of what they're working on. If you'd be more excited to work on the project if it had a cooler name, I think that's worth a lot.
Then again, I've never gotten SEO to work, so maybe I'm underestimating it.
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My gut is that there's a huge difference between getting on page 2 vs the top half of page 1 which is what people actually click on, and while the domain name matters for SEO, it seems unlikely to matter enough to bridge that gap for you. I bet the downside of changing domains early on is low.
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It's not a major problem for me right now, but it's something I worry about, especially now that we have a form builder.
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Interesting, I hadn't considered that. Are you doing anything to position yourself as a Canadian company even though it's incorporated in the US? I'd guess most people care more about where the profit is going as opposed to where the corporate taxes get paid.
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There is exactly one way to avoid this: The owners agree to accept less "shareholder value" in order to prioritize other things.
This is possible with a few co-founders owning the business. It's impossible with a dozen VCs or thousands of public investors owning the business.
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Many tech companies seem different at first, because the first step to increasing shareholder value is growing market share. But eventually that dries up, and they have no choice but to start squeezing out more profit (which hits customers, employees, and/or all of society). That's enshitification.
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For all the intelligence in the tech community, it puzzles me how many people miss the systemic issue here. Enshitifcation isn't about one greedy founder. The entire system is set up to require stock prices to increase FOREVER, so enshitification is inevitable if you participate in that system.
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Do you have a sense of how much of this is Cloudflare caching the content and serving it from their CDN (as opposed to blocking crawlers)? I saw a similar bandwidth drop when I switched to Cloudflare years ago just because they were serving the data instead of me.
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I don't think he checks Bluesky, but @ricklindquist.bsky.social did for a bit. I'm not sure exactly what happens, but I know they're not using it anymore.
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Very interesting. I'll have to think about that.
This ties into a related issue which is that with a CRM, it's hard to get quick value out of it. I've often wanted a smaller, more immediate thing we could offer. Whatever that thing is, it'd probably make for a good bagel.
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lol I'm definitely referring to my customers as "donkeys" from now on
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Yeah, we talk to these people all the time and it's the aspirational thing combined with being in chaotic "too busy" mode all the time.
They want to eat their vegetables, but they can't make themselves do it. But they picked us as their veggie supplier and I wish we could do something with that.
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I wonder if they know that it won't happen, so they're just taking an opportunity to get some free PR