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These social media / tech companies do their best to rot peoples minds and push us against developing healthy usage habits, that's against their interest since they are just profiting out of our attention. Sometimes I install Instagram app when I want to check DMs easily through the app, and it's really hard even for me to not get lost in endless media I see on my feed. I used to be very addicted to this stuff and somehow managed to remove it from my daily life, but I imagine little kids and teenages don't have that kind of willpower or even desire to do so, so they are lost in it. Also I don't see many people speaking up about the dangers of this attention economy. Someone like Cal Newport has great takes on this. Our parents were right, it was the damn phones all along

Yes that's actually not that far fetched. My friend has a project that he vibe-codes (a small toy project) and he uses Claude Code for coding, and then on top of that, he uses OpenAI's Codex to review and fine-tune Claude Code generated code. So one AI agent reviews code written by another AI agent, what can go wrong, right? It will take just couple hallucinations, couple missed bugs that developer won't be able to catch and that's it. But to argue against that, humans also write buggy features, don't they? I think people should just pay much more attention to testing mission critical stuff. There are whole testing pipelines for that stuff (QA engineers, unit and integration tests, end to end tests, etc), and accidents like this will probably push companies to pay closer attention and build stronger pipelines that will caught issues before code actually goes into production.

https://www.actualized.org/insights/actualized-quotes-498 @Leo Gura Can you elaborate a bit on this one? In what sense do you mean it? People who know me also know that I exist, right? Do you mean that all the people I know who would tell me that I exist, are all happening in my subjective experience, and I only have my own subjective experience as literal truth, so I can't depend on others. Is that quote really grapsable without grasping the real nature of others?

I don't think they actually did that, it was just Dario Amodei's sales pitch. They have tons of job vacancies for developers on their website. Yes of course developers use Claude Code for coding now, not only at Anthropic, but probably in most companies worldwide. It would be funny if the reason behind the leak really was some unreviewed AI generated code. Amazon also had trouble with this. I saw couple articles recently, like this one: https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/amazon-retail-site-outages-ai-agent-inaccurate-advice/ Well, they can suck it because some of the core stuff has been ported to other languages: https://github.com/instructkr/claw-code

My MacBook, through which I earn my income and live independently. My Garmin Smartwatch that has been with me through all the hard runs that I've done over the years and hopefully will still be with me for some considerable future, but battery life doesn't seem to agree with that. Jabra Elite 8 earbuds, also very comfortable during all the runs, nothing beats listening to some good audiobooks while exercising. My Ninja Air Fryer, let's me prepare some basic food very easily without much hastle, that helps me keep up with my diet and weight loss goals. Ninja Creami ice cream maker, for making some healthy ice-creams in the summer As for some sentimental value, I have some stuff from my dad who passed away a year ago, like a baseball ball from his earlier days when he was a captain of a national USSR baseball team from my country (yeah that was a thing).

Even though this isn't a data leak, this makes me regret all the sensitive stuff that I've shared with Antropic. How can they be so sloppy, my god. But as much as I don't really like that CEO guy, Claude Code is an awesome tool, I'd be happy to see competitors picking up on this leak and making their tools as good as Claude Code is. It's interesting to know how these got leaked exactly. Why in the hell did they include a source map into the production code. Seems like a rookie developer mistake.

My niece is 7 years old, and lately I've noticed that she has acquired a brain-rot vocabulary, when I asked her where she heared that stuff, she said that in school everybody was watching these instagram / youtube / tiktok reels, and even though my sister restricts her to use phone or scroll through anything, she still picked up this brainrot stuff from her classmates. I don't know what can be the solution to that. And now imagine these kids will grow up not knowing pre-AI world. For them AI chat bots and robots will be very ordinary and all the slop that comes with it. Not to mention that they'll lose (or don't even develop in the first place) an ability to derive any kind of truth for themselves. That's why I hesistate on having children in this era. I'm not really sure how to properly raise a child in this mess.

@Miguel1 Nice, man, yeah I think the path you've gone through made you who you are and that experience is invaluable. Most of guys need to go through what you went through in my opinion. I haven't done it, and I sense that I need to do it even though I also want to deconstruct it, but you have to construct something before attempt deconstructing. Yeah, exactly, that's were I feel I am at. It's a long way ahead. Good luck through your future goals with this!

I love The Office, it's so funny. Why do you guys hate it?

It's his backstory, how he became Saul Goodman. That was his personality in Breaking Bad, and Better Call Saul is about that character development. It's a really good show.

After watching Better Call Saul, going back to Breaking Bad makes Walt feel like some chaotic side character who just shows up and ruins everything everyone else spent years building, lol.

Thanks for sharing that, man 🙏 If you hadn’t gone through that year of pickup (100 girls and all that), do you think you would have been able to develop deeper relationships like you did? So, was that a necessary step for you? What else could have potentially taught you that lesson, besides that one year of experience? In hindsight, what would you change about that story you told us, knowing everything you know now?

@integration journey Oh sorry, major spoiler in that video, don't watch it if you haven't already.

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Did you also watch El Camino?

Maybe Vince is a fan of Rick and Morty, Pluribus is wierdly similar to Unity (hivemind character) 😅

It was more emotional for me, especially the last season, and especially last episodes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aivideo/comments/1s745ru/blacknape_im_black_snape_official_music_video/ Oh man they did this to themselves I don't even want to imagine all the stuff online that will follow snape's appearances in episodes.

You seem to have gone through the pickup phase and saw the shallowness of it. Did that desire for long-term love and partnership come after exhausting that more primitive need or it was there in the beginning as well?

Good stuff! Have you ever experienced all that with a girl, and knew her so well that you had answers to all those question in relation to her? Doesn't it get boring after a while? Maybe after years? What I'm asking is, how sustainable is that kind of intimacy, it's very exciting in the beginning, but can the excitement last through years? How can we maintain intimacy through the years? That's what I'm trying to figure out. I guess it has stages, and the initial stages are especially exciting, when all those questions you listed are fresh and you're in a discovery phase. Maybe it goes deeper and deeper, but also it might get shallow over time. Depends on the person and also depends on how far can you go in that, how deeply you grasp some of these stuff, that can be deepened more and more.

@Ulax I don't really have much experience with pickup either, but I have some nice social skills that I use whenever I'm out socializing. I see that as a great baseline foundation that I can build my pickup skills if I want to, even without wings. Rejections will hurt for sure, but that's the whole point in training. I was saying that people who don't have that baseline of social skills will struggle at pickup a lot more, and it's better to gradually build it up. It just makes sense to do it that way. Lol

What's the reason behind resistance? I don't think you have much anxiety doing it, right? Is it just that you have much higher priorities and you just don't like doing it?

@Ulax Yeah I agree. Just imagine dragging a guy from his basement who hasn't seen a live human being for 5 years and has zero friends and zero social skills to the pickup bootcamp and making him approach. That won't go well. I like the gradual approach you're suggesting. Social skills can be developed with friends, at job, univercities, etc. But it also needs proactive approach, constantly challenging yourself and getting yourself out there and being vulnerable in many ways. Doesn't have to be cold approaching cute girls in the beginning. It's really the question of how vulnurable you're willing to be in front of some group of people.

Then it's time to pump up coke numbers

It's pickup an attempt of doing that? Attempt at traning social skills.