The thing professional creatives must be doing better, and the thing we aspiring professional creatives don't talk about enough, has to do with the fact that the hard part is not the initial creation, it's that by the time one arrives to the moment where they are putting their work into the world, they've lived with that work for so long that it is hard to like it, or enjoy it, or believe in it any longer.
Anita Lane w/ Nick Cave cover of "Je t'aime... moi non plus", "I Love You... Nor Do I" is sublime.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anita_Lane#1984%E2%80%932001:_Collaborations_and_solo_career
These days, often times I fear that I may lose my shine
The hours erode my fractured mind
One wave at a time
Reshapes the entire shoreline
A face you wouldn’t recognize
AI as a tool for developing software can be very useful in the hands of a reasonably experienced developer who understands the business, principles of good software design, and knows deep in their soul that the best code is that which is never written.
daniel.industries/2024/07/09/my-mostly-positive-experience-with-github-copilot/
I like the @arcinternet TV ad. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"in one of our projects to build an open-domain chat system, the success metric...imposed by senior leadership had no scientific grounding and was borderline impossible to achieve...This introduced...conflict...leading to manager churn every few months and an eventual sunsetting of the effort"
How Alexa Dropped the Ball on Being the Top Conversational System on the Planet
mihaileric.com/posts/how-alexa-dropped-the-ball-conversational-ai/
ISO something that lets me export a GitHub issues page as markdown