If you go left or right as the first move on mobile you can't get out of the box. Pretty frustrating.

It's not imposible, but I agree that it's very hard.

You may have noticed the same behavioural issues amongst your adult friends or at times in yourself. I know I have. Anytime I give up doom scrolling for a week or two I feel instantly less anxious about the world and everything going on around me.

Social media is a plague and will likely be looked on by the psychiatric/medical professional as extremely harmful in years to come. Something akin to smoking.

> Social media is a plague and will likely be looked on by the psychiatric/medical professional as extremely harmful in years to come.

Not only will it not, autism will not last more than 25 years in it's current form. I bet money on both of those

Thanks for your input, I find this take intriguing. Could you elaborate on the link you see between social media and Autism?

"War is a given" if your foreign policies dictate that outcome. It's not something always unavoidable but it isn't inevitable either.

The United States is one pretty warmongerish nation by any account.

> The United States is one pretty warmongerish nation by any account.

Compared to other modern nations, but compared to history vary peaceful.

Do microsoft own git now?

I don't think so

Pedantically no, but in practice almost yes. So many programmers born after 2006 think that Git and GitHub are the same thing.

Ai results that nobody wanted in the first place?

Do you honestly think an ikea desk has "more expert craftsmanship" than a hand crafted by a woodworker desk?

Definitely. Expert craftsmanship in cost optimization, in shipping optimization, in production/factory design and optimization, in material sourcing, in durability testing, in design for mass market appeal, in marketing material, in documentation, et cetera.

In some ways, sure.

The LACK (https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lack-side-table-white-30449908/) is probably one of the most optimized pieces of furniture you can buy. There's no hand crafted desk that can be this cheap. A wood worker won't even get out of bed for $17.

Now is it an amazingly beautiful, rock solid, heirloom quality piece of furniture? No, but it's not trying to be that.

They also double as a nice and cheap server rack!

https://wiki.eth0.nl/index.php/LackRack

Don't you think IKEA has expert engineers designing their furniture that will sell millions?

Programming is the equivalent to designing a factory, not carving out wood pieces.

Some programming is the equivalent to designing a factory, some programming is the equivalent to carving out wood pieces.

I've worked in large organizations where a small number of staff+ engineers were approaching programming as factory, while many more engineers were obsessing about the details of their own narrowly-focused work and liked it that way.

It feels like the scale is tipping more towards the factory model and, understandably, not everyone is excited about that.

I'm not sure why this even needs to be the comparison?

Yes there is expert craftsmanship in the industrial scale design of ikea products, and yes there is expert craftsmanship in a bespoke, handmade wooden desk, but AI results in neither of these. It's cheap and disposable and tuned for putting up the appearance of something high quality without any of the actual intent that would be put behind either of the other two examples.

Amazon is a hideous looking website too and always has been. Ebay is similar too in that aspect and plenty of others.

They were established when hideous websites were common changing would cause uproar and possibly alienate a large group of users. Look at Googles web page just a text box on a blank page, no way you are launching with that UI in 2026.

Gibberish paper

It is possible to have learned both things you know.

I've found them useful for in house stuff where you are using a specific design system or architecture. But custom everything works best. Are that Claude works well on its own though at this point.