The vtuber rabbit hole is very deep and interesting but this comment mentioning Saba seems to be very random, not related to the discussion at all. Left a bitter taste even on someone who knows a bit about vtubing. Not the best way to show off the community on hackernews
I relate to the post, but I'm not sure it's hitting the nail on the head _for me_.
I like being useful, and I'm not yet sure how much of what I'm creating with AI is _me_, and how much it is _it_. It's hard to derive as much purpose/meaning from it compared to the previous reality where it was _all me_.
If I compare it to a real world problem; e.g. when I unplug the charging cable from my laptop at my home desk, the charging cable slides off the table. I could order a solution online that fixes the problem and be done with it, but I could also think how _I_ can solve the problem with what I already have in my spare parts box. Trying out different solutions makes me think and I'm way more happy with the end result. Every time I unplug the cable now and it stays in place it reminds me of _my_ labour and creativity (and also the cable not sliding down the table -- but that's besides the point).
That's exactly it for me. Coming up with a solution using my own brainpower is a large part of the pleasure of programming for me.
A silly example to illustrate the kind of guy I am: when I'm watching a show or movie, I'll often wonder where I've seen an actor before. A "normal" person, like my wife, would just look it up on IMDB and be done with it. But I almost always insist on rifling through all the dustiest corners of my brain to figure it out. Even if it takes me a day or two of thinking about it off and on. Because to me, the satisfaction of doing it myself is worth it.
Super fun, I'd love to get a little bit more time like in the OPs website for each animal that I guess right. Instead of 1 second, it should be something like 6 because I can speak much much faster than the speech recognition is able to separate out my guesses.
+1, every time we hike up a mountain and there's a help-yourself-fridge/shelf, we take 5-10 items and it's too much to add up in ones head. I use the phone calculator and pay by QR code.
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