This reads like a satire. There's so much jargon and so many products involved to just do a little bit of logging. It's ridiculous.

That is to say I agree with the author.

I'm very skeptical about this zero commercial value claim. I don't think everyone skips past it, and even if they do, that's just the stuff they're detecting as AI. How much have they not identified? What about in a couple years?

Heck, even humans subtly trying to sell something give off a vibe you can pick up quickly. But now and then they're entertaining or subliminal enough that they get through.

I still think it would be fun for a video game. Write a backstory for a whole bunch of NPCs and let the player dig as deep as they like.

I'm not sure what the bottle neck right now is. Either this idea isn't as fun as I think or we can't do it in real time on consumer hardware yet.

A lot of full conversion mods just find community members that want to do some VO for practice or as a resume booster or just for the funsies. I think you'd be surprised how easy it is to get half-decent voice actors if you've got an interesting idea to build out.

The problem isn't hiring/paying the voice actors, it's that the NPC can say anything. It's not pre-scripted.

On reddit, I delete it daily. Partly for that reason and partly because the Internet is scary.

The line though, is probably when you put my harm out into the world than good. That's probably a good place to draw it.

Vivaldi recently took liberty to "restore" a scrollbar to the body tag of my app even though I had intentionally moved it to an inner div. It royally effed up my app with no workaround.

Their intentions were good, but.. you don't know what devs are going to do. As long as they're following spec, let them. Users can vote with their wallet or eyeballs.

NB: I don't want to throw too much shade at Vivaldi. I reported it. They fixed it. Still my fav browser

Is there a better word for these grow slow companies?

Businesses

If you slow grow and keep it smallish, then it’s a “lifestyle business”. That number can change but maybe $5million or less ARR. Thats enough to pay yourself and a few staff with benefits.

But like palata said above, it is a startup if hasn’t found product-market fit.

Solid? Right up to the point some funded start-up starts giving away the same thing in the hope that they can fake it until they make it and take everybody else in the same space down with them.

Linear is a really, really good product though, so it is worth paying for.

Small business?

SME, bootstrapped business.

"hypeless growth"

"Normal growth"?

The first time my driving instructor took me on a high way.. after a few minutes he looked over at me and said something like "isn't this exciting?" The sarcasm did not register with me because I indeed found it exhilarating even though we were just casually cruising in traffic.

Yessss! This is what I want. If there is a natural set of filters that can be applied, let me speak it in natural language, then the LLM can translate that as good as possible and then I can review it. E.g. searching photos between X and Y date, containing human Z, at location W. These are all filters that can be presented as separate UI elements so I can confirm the LLM interpreted correctly and I can adjust the dates or what have you without having to repeat the whole sentence again.

Also, any additional LLM magic would be a separate layer with its own context, safely abstracted beneath the filter/search language. Not a post-processing step by some kind of LLM-shell.

For example, "Find me all pictures since Tuesday with pets" might become:

    type:picture after:2025-10-08 fuzzy-content:"with pets"

Then the implementation of "fuzzy-content" would generate a text-description of the photo and some other LLM-thingy does the hidden document-building like:

   Description: "black dog catching a frisbee"
   Does that "with pets"? 
   Answer Yes or No.
   Yes.

I think that part could use some improvement. References vs values should have different syntax, like C++. I think the interpreted languages and Java botched this.

Kysley and others give you the types in TS. I believe you can write SQL in Linq C# but it's been ages since I've done it. If rust truly doesn't have that yet.. I guess they're missing out.