Many of the comments are AI bots as well.

"This was such an eye-opening breakdown. Most people only see the big retail win, not the insane operational load, cashflow pressure, and forecasting stress behind it. Really appreciate how transparently you shared the real founder experience. Huge respect for the execution and the growth you achieved."

Etc.

I hate to say this but the indie game developer community is in some local minima where tribal in-group signaling takes precedence over thinking about the consumer. The industry has developed a siege mentality and is entering a "rooting out traitors" phase. The AI thing is only one example of this self-policing; there are many. I really hope that the industry can become more free spirited, less intense and angry. I love the games and the people but the industry is not in a healthy place right now.

If someone says that they can't get a camera to work, you tell them how to fix it, right? I can't think of what other response is appropriate.

Why would their response be appropriate when even the creators of the LLM doesn't clearly state the purpose of their software, yet alone instruct users how to use it? The person I replied to said that this software should be used yo "help you build and run experiments, and help you discuss your findings, and in the end helps you write your discoveries" - I dare anyone to find any mention of this workflow being the "correct" way of using any LLM in the LLM's official documentation.

Validation that cameras will never work and photographs aren't real.

"Progress by crashing into things then putting the broken pieces back together" is surprisingly effective.

Her job is dependent on being likeable to a mass audience. If you want to be likeable to a mass audience then it's most effective to repeat bromides.

Her essay makes it seem like she's mostly powerless. She gets shuttled around from place to place because other people make money by using her as a prop. She gets paid lots of money and is given freedom, in a sense, but it's freedom to gorge herself on basic pleasures like attention, drugs, and wealth. Overall it seems like a childlike existence.

This is what makes the ‘successful’ parts slightly off to me. I get that she is successful, she is well known, presumably made good money etc - but in some sense it’s the machinery behind her that has been successful in using her. Everything she is, is just a brand created and owned by someone else.

Replying to my own comment several days later: I regret writing this. I know nothing about this woman's life yet I attempt to rip her to pieces, and I wrote the comment mostly to show off.

Breaking an ankle bracelet and fleeing an international manhunt is a risky endeavour! Although I suppose world leaders tend to be risk takers. "I deserve the top job, and I'm going to scratch and claw my way to get it" isn't exactly a well-balanced thought.

Having social power is like owning a gun. Yes it's nice to have it and not use it. But there's often a temptation to use it. And if you use it incorrectly then someone can get hurt.

You spend years honing your skill with a weapon and then you stop using it.

The hard part is feeling like your weapon isn't being used. But you need to accept that disuse can be good. Otherwise you end up hurting people.

Basically, don't treat people like toys.

The author's next step will probably be to find places where he can go at full speed. Perhaps grief counseling, the clergy, hospice visits, or something along those lines.

Apropos, from a book I read long ago and have forgotten, except for this passage:

"Prior to the twentieth century, when life spans were shorter, a shepherd might have known hundreds of songs, poems, and stories and several languages, how to play several musical instruments, tan leather, make butter, dry and preserve meat, build a shelter, and prepare the dead for burial."

There is so much potential in all of us!

That doesn’t seem like a lot though when you really dig into it and understand the context.

There's a lot of bucolic bullshit in that claim. Shepherds were lucky to speak their own mother tongue. Making butter was women's work. Tanning leather was a specialist profession. Playing several musical instruments presupposes owning them.

Every American conservative knows the feeling of being at work and your liberal coworkers, not knowing you're conservative, start going on a rant about how terrible Republicans are and how stupid they are and how they all deserve jail etc.

In America today, liberals feel very comfortable speaking about their views in public. Conservatives don't.