Daniel Saewitz

@saewitz.com

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software engineer, built a solo bootstrapped business, budding writer working on a new react-based web framework https://saewitz.com

A sample AI generated article from my writing
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Tattered Patagonia bag
Land of lisp
internal blog admin panel
github
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Every damn thing is only as good as the quality of attention it gets. AI removes all ambiguities and uncertainties around this. That’s why all the slop-hate. Honest mirror of your attention falling short in both quality and quantity. No way to deflect or project. There’s no way to narrativize it to look good. With non-AI execution of intent, the failures are humanizingly excuse-shaped. Things look like “I didn’t get enough sleep last night” or “I was just mad when I wrote that.” All the excuse shaped patterns are filtered out. What’s left is the pure Gaussian residue of your unexplainable and irreducible failure as a human to care about the right things to the right degree. Because AI paints your failure to care in lorem ipsum. “Slop” is neither in you, nor the AI. It’s in the impedance mismatch between the surprising amount of detail that is in reality and should be in your intentions. If you can’t make yourself care in sufficient detail, the result will be a caricature. All you can do is try to become aware of it and own it. It’ll still be 80% lorem ipsum, but it will be your lorem ipsum. A portrait of your enlightened indifferences.
hacker news comment saying "As I have stated before, AI will win a fields medal before it can manage a McDonald's"
analysis of the tahoe tweezer peak (not my writing)