Pieter Levels
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first heard Aug 2024
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And then two minutes later, for example, it's fixed. And it's fun because it's annoying for me to work with companies where you report a bug and it takes like six months. It's like horrible. And it makes people really happy when you can really quickly solve their problems. But it's crazy.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, they do because there's more bugs. And people complain about like, oh, look, he bought this Twitter and now it's full of bugs. Dude, these shipping stuff, like things are happening now and it's a dynamic app now.
The preferred outcome for them is probably their career and not the overall result of the cool product, you know?
I have this when I report bugs on like big companies I work with. I talk to a lot of different people on DM and they're all really trying hard to do something. They're all really nice. And I'm the one being kind of asshole because I'm like, guys, I'm talking to 20 people about this for six months and nothing's happening. They say, man, I know, but I'm trying my best. And yeah, so it's systemic.
I think big companies, especially in America, a lot of it is legal, right? You need to pass everything through legal.
And you can't like, man, the things I do, I could never do it in a big corporation because everything has to be, probably get deployed has to go through legal.
And the law can change. For example, let's say you launch this AI dubbing and there's some legal problems with lawsuits. Okay, so the law changes. There will be appeals. There will be some Supreme Court thing, whatever. And the law changes. So just by shipping it, you change society. You change the legal framework.
By not shipping, being scared of the legal framework all the time, like you're not changing things.
Yeah, VS Code. Before I used Sublime Text, I don't think it matters a lot. I think I'm very skeptical of like tools when people think it, they say it matters, right? I don't think it matters. I think... whatever tool you know very well, you can go very fast in.
Like, you know, the shortcuts, for example, IDE, you know, like I love Sublime Text because I could use like multi-cursor, you know, you search something and I could like make mass replaces in a file with the cursor thing. And VS Code doesn't really have that as well.
Yeah. It's not so good. I think, or at least I tried, but I would use that to like, uh, process data, like, um, data sets, for example, from world bank, I would just multi-cursor mass change everything. Um, But yeah, VS Code, man, I was bullied into using VS Code because Twitter would always see my screenshots of Sublime Text and say, why are you still using Sublime Text?
Like, boomer, you need to use VS Code. And I'm like, well, I'll try it. I got a new MacBook and then I never installed, like, I never copied the old MacBook. I just make it fresh, you know, like a clean, like format C, you know, Windows, like clean start. And I'm like, okay, I'll try VS Code and it's stuck, you know, but I don't really care. Like, it's not so important for me.
Dude, it was so good. You would install Windows and then after three or six months, it would start breaking and everything was like, it got slow. Then you would restart, go to DOS, format C, you would delete your hard drive and then install the Windows 95 again. It was so good times. And you would design everything like, now I'm going to install it properly.
Now I'm going to design my desktop properly, you know, like.
Yeah, you want to understand the new technological concepts and see if they can benefit you. It would be stupid not to even try.
Yeah, but you just dive in. It's like NeuroFlex. Like, you keep your brain fresh, you know? Like, this kind of stuff. I got to do that more. Like, have you given React a chance? No, but I want to learn. I understand the basics, right? Yeah. I don't really know where to start.
No, man. So I kind of did that. Like the stuff I do in jQuery is essentially, a lot of it is like, I start rebuilding whatever tech is already out there. Not based on that, but just an accident. Like I keep going long enough that I build the same. I start getting the same problems everybody else had and you start building the same frameworks kind of.
So essentially I use my own kind of framework of.
Kind of, yeah. With AJAX calls. But essentially it's the same thing. Look, I don't have the time. And this is, I think saying you don't have the time is like always a lie because you just don't prioritize it enough. My priority is still running the businesses and improving that and AI. I think learning AI is much more valuable now than learning a front-end framework. It's just more impact.
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