What about finding indie authors on traditional recommendation systems such as Gnod?[0] The less utilized and forgotten parts of the internet are probably a good set of places to push.
Pushing by any chance your own project? And forgetting to mention gnod is yet another midwit AI recommendation system for bland averaged out taste for the masses?
I have no idea I barely use it but has been around for ages, just figured it was a forgotten part of the net.
If you read my comments you will see I am skeptical towards AI and for the record I beleive that Gnod is algorithmic not necessarily the AI of “today”.
I wish gnod was a project I could pimp but the truth is that I got nothing. Go after the nerds who post their start up in comments. Me, I have never done so and I am too young to be the gnod creator.
One medium where this isn’t really true is video games. Why hasn’t Steam or Itch fallen in this trap? Because they are honest stewards? Or because the software plane isn’t as large? Only news publishing and written word and movies. In fact movies even have a set number of prestige “risk” directors so they never have to reach too far out of the norm, see Yorgos Lanthimos.
It's the same point though. Steam/Itch haven't fallen into the trap, which I think is because the friction and barriers tonentry in video games are less of an issue than other mediums.
But video games in general have fallen into that trap. There were certainly more variety in the mainstream/AAA scene in the 90s and 00s than there is now. No more major publisher really is in that mid tier wacky but interesting 6-7.5/10 game space anymore.
It goes back to the point that consolidation long term ends up being bad and the smaller/indie press is good for culture (and that is a big part of what Steam is, and I'd argue where the most interesting things in gaming have come from lately
The article doesn't apply to Steam because Steam is a marketplace, not a publisher. Valve takes on no financial risk in accepting a new game into Steam.
And there has been a fair bit of consolidation going on among publishers. IIRC there are only about a dozen giant corporations left that finance AAA games and they have been losing appetite for risk over the past year, cancelling many games in development and shuttering many game studios.
Arguably never has their been a Potus willing to destroy the economy. Potus can pull levers to try and boost the economy which is more or less at the whim of everyone else participating. That is the truth that was being referred to before. Now we have a Potus bent on destroying it so the levers he pulls are actually effecting the economy in ways. But he still doesn’t control it.
Does that matter if the headline is conclusive of the article result? Financial Times is a costly subscription. Furthermore those details, while interesting, do not change the outcome of the article.
Notice the videos of Iranians celebrating the death of their leader have stopped as they continuously get bombed after his death. Do you think that is building good will or no consequences for the future with anyone?
Right not carpet bombing exactly but multiple days now of bombing a country that has never attacked us with their military. Every time the question is asked "why are we bombing them then" the answer is "just because" or "it's how war is fought" or "we had to kill one guy". So the relentless murder of innocents certainly feels like "carpet bombing".
You are kidding right? "Right not carpet bombing exactly but multiple days now of bombing a country that has never attacked us with their military." Iran conducted thousands of attack against US and coalition forces in Iraq with IEDs made in Iran.
Okay. You’re kidding right? Then you’re proving my point. Their military didn’t directly attack us. How many American made munitions did the US supply to Israel to attack Iran or Palestine or Lebanon or anywhere else Israel decided the Usa was going to attack next?
The start of the war wasn’t started by IED’s supplied to Iraq from Iran during the Iraq war. You’re just moving the goal post to fit the criteria. The war started a several days ago when we bombed the country.
And again as every person with a brain has been saying: if we’re attacking Iran based on indirect attacks, why haven’t we bombed and invaded China or Russia?
When the military spends 2 decades integrating Israel technology because we enabled people to be buying random technology to integrate as a method of building the military, then the result is that we've sold out the military arm to a terrorist nation, Israel. They are strong arming us into doing their bidding because our core systems now run off their servers.
There are more conflicts happening right now than in World War 2. Meaning, World War 3 is already here. I don't know why everyone is pretending it's not happening, the people doing it are calling themselves the Department of War.
I’m at a big tech company. They proudly stated more productivity measures in commits (already nonsense). 47% more commits, 17% less time per commit. Meaning 128% more time spent coding. Burning us out and acting like the AI slop is “unlocking” productivity.
There’s some neat stuff, don’t get me wrong. But every additional tool so far has started strong but then always falls over. Always.
Right now there’s this “orchestrator” nonsense. Cool in principle, but as someone who made scripts to automate with all the time before it’s not impressive. Spent $200 to automate doing some bug finding and fixing. It found and fixed the easy stuff (still pretty neat), and then “partially verified” it fixed the other stuff.
The “partial verification” was it justifying why it was okay it was broken.
The company has mandated we use this technology. I have an “AI Native” rating. We’re being told to put out at least 28 commits a month. It’s nonsense.
They’re letting me play with an expensive, super-high-level, probabilistic language. So I’m having a lot of fun. But I’m not going to lie, I’m very disappointed. Got this job a year ago. 12 years programming experience. First big tech job. Was hoping to learn a lot. Know my use of data to prioritize work could be better. Was sold on their use of data. I’m sure some teams here use data really well, but I’m just not impressed.
And I’m not even getting into the people gaming the metrics to look good while actually making more work for everyone else.
Management is just stupid sometimes. We had a similar metric at my last company and my manager's response was "well how else are we supposed to measure productivity?", and that was supposed to be a legitimate answer.
Lol its gonna take longer than it should for this to play out.
Sunk cost fallacy is very real, for all involved. Especially the model producers and their investors.
Sunk cost fallacy is also real for dev's who are now giving up how they used to work - they've made a sunk investment in learning to use LLMs etc. Hence the 'there's no going back' comments that crop up on here.
As I said in this thread - anyone who can think straight - Im referring to those who adhere to fundamental economic principles - can see what's going on from a mile away.
[0] https://www.gnod.com/
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