This is a very cool idea, I think this could potentially be more powerful by (at least initially) limiting it to small sections of the UI (Like you've done in your example)
You could take it a step further and, instead of adding/removing buttons, simply updating the copy of (a) button(s) based on the question, which I imagine you could manage with a very small model.
I had to check I hadn't written this in my sleep overnight. You're describing a very similar experience to mine, and I'm honestly shocked at how common this experience seems to be.
2 weeks ago I signed the contract to "sell" my shares for my startup of ~7 years. I'm just now starting to realize how utterly miserable I had been for a long, long time.
It's a very difficult decision, but it gets easier every day (on average, some days can still be tough).
I've finally gotten around to reading Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari. It's been very interesting reading this alongside everything that's happening with AI at the moment.
Would be curious to hear from others that have read it, but I find it difficult to fault his core arguments (or at least what I interpret them to be).
The problem white collar humans have right now is that they're highly specialized. They're incredibly good at being very effective cogs. This is exactly what AI is getting so good at doing (in certain verticals). Traditional capitalism effectively demands that if a company can pay the owner of an algorithm 10% of what it would pay for a human to do the same thing (for even 80% of the quality), then that's what will eventually happen.
Can government regulate it? They can sure try, but then either the companies or AI hosting providers will move to a country that doesn't have the same restrictions and it will happen anyway.
Then people will say "it will just open up other industries". I'm not sure it will. What other industries will the swaths of copywriters, lawyers, accountants retrain for?
I just don't understand everyone saying "It's going to make everyone's lives easier". In the short term sure, but if AI gets to where it's owners want it to get to, then a lot of people are going to find themselves professionally worthless.
It's entirely possible that this is just not something we're prepared for, and it's almost guaranteed at this point that there's no stopping it.
What's really interesting is this book was released in 2016... and Yuval was using Microsoft's Cortana as the example of this upcoming AI...
+1. Never had issues with sleep and out of nowhere got hit with insomnia hard last year around this time.
Absolutely brutal, but with solid CBT and sleep deprivation therapy, alongside a few sessions with a sleep psychologist, I knocked it on the head. It took a solid 9 months, but it’s now not even remotely an issue.
Yeah, the 2019 MBPs were absolute abominations. I spent 5k AUD on a fully kitted out MBP and performance wise it’s one of the worst computers I’ve ever owned.
I swore that would be the last Apple computer I ever bought, but then they released the M1s… and they are very good.
Would recommend getting an M1 if at all possible. There’s still time to ask Santa for one.
I recommend getting a Framework. It's probably not as good as an M1, but it'll last you more than two years, and if it doesn't, you can just change the CPU for a better one without having to throw all the other, perfectly good hardware away.
my macs absolutely start to degrade after about 18 months, and I try to keep them limping along for a few more months. I think it’s usually the battery crapping out that causes everything else to sort of overheat and suck
I had my 2012 MacBook Pro for 8 years, before giving it to my dad where it continues to be used (though under far less load than when I had it).
I did get the battery replaced once, it was free. The screen got replaced twice, also for free (the second time they just did it when replacing the battery because the person at the Apple Store noticed a slight wear on the edge anti-reflective coating)
> I recommend getting a Framework. It's probably not as good as an M1, but it'll last you more than two years…
Macs have famously-long usable lives — my sister uses a 7-year-old iMac, for example. The latest macOS Ventura supports Macs made in 2017. I'd be very surprised to hear about people using 2021 Framework laptops as their daily driver in 2026.
I've had 3 MBPs, every single one has had at least one issue, well before 7 years, usually around 1.5 to 2. The first two had battery recalls, the middle one had cable-gate, the middle one's display was also very temperature sensitive (it would have glitched lines artifact on the screen if the ambient temperature wasn't near 70F), the later MBP suffers from keyboard-gate and from constant thermal throttling. (Likely because the vents are choked with dust, but MBP's user hostile design prevents me from opening it up and pushing air through it, which is likely all it requires. They hate the user so much they used screws worse than Torx. I think they're Pentalobe, but don't quote me.)
My current Magic Trackpad is also highly temperature sensitive. The "click" will lock up at high temp. (I.e., the trackpad will fight you, if you attempt to click, if the ambient temperature is warm.)
> I'd be very surprised to hear about people using 2021 Framework laptops as their daily driver in 2026.
I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad at about that age. (It is a 2017 model, so, 5 years.) The biggest thing wrong with it at present is it requires AC power. (The battery connection is bad. It lived through two bike crashes, though, and I suspect that's a side effect of it. I should see if that's repairable, one of these days, but I've put up with that for the time, as with COVID, it doesn't really travel much anymore.) The TrackPoint™ is also wonky, but I think that's because sunlight has chemically hardened the nib like an old eraser. I have more nibs… somewhere. I should look for them or order more…
It would be absurd to claim that Macs don't fail or need servicing during their usable lives, but you seem to have been particularly unlucky in my experience.
> They hate the user so much they used screws worse than Torx. I think they're Pentalobe, but don't quote me.
But you're in a thread about how the GP's Mac didn't last two years. I'm fairly sure I will be using my Framework laptop as my daily driver in 2026, maybe with one motherboard replacement. I just switched from my 2017 XPS, and I do development work. I gave it to my dad, who loves it and will probably hold on to it for another few years.
It's a bit odd to be saying this about pre-M1 Macs, as they were "just" Intel machines, same as everything else.
An M1 Mac should last double that, easily - so long as you don't underspec it. My family has multiple November 2020 M1 MacBook Airs that are still working good as the day we got them.
Frameworks are nice in theory but they still have a long way to go when it comes to heat, fan noise, and battery life based on what I've seen owners of them say.
This is the biggest reason that I won’t get a Framework today. Give me a Ryzen with 8+ cores, 32GB DDR5, hopefully two m.2 slots, a full-size HDMI and USB-A port(s), 99wh battery because of TSA security theater, dedicated graphics, and some real heat sinks that can handle 200w+ so it doesn’t have to run the fans constantly or cook the touchpad. A 4:3 OLED with at least 4K resolution and 120hz refresh would be perfect on top. Ooh, and a rigid chassis that doesn’t flex like a noodle, and no RGB / gAmER tacky plastic junk all over. It’s sad that a package like this is very rare.
Likewise with gaming. Back in the days of dial up you had to put effort into playing multiplayer. Everyone had to plan a full day of packing their computer up, bringing it over to someone’s house, setting up and then trying to get the networking to work because switches with auto DHCP were still expensive in those days.
When you finally got that game of AOE2, or Starcraft or Quake to work, it was like magic seeing you and your friends playing in the same game.
Much easier to play with friends (or randoms) now, but not as satisfying if I dont have to figure out what my IP should be and manually putting it in my network settings.
Likewise. It’s scary how easily you can just fall into a phishing trap. I almost gave an attacker my GitHub login due to a (Very very good) phishing email impersonating CircleCI.
The email was really good (not in junk), the domain was close, pixel perfect UI and is just finished a reformat so entering in my feeds again made sense. Unfortunately for them, they sent the email out prematurely because after pressing the button I got a JS error.
