I went all-in on AI coding assistants and my GitHub heatmap went vertical. I built a side project in a few weeks that would have taken me months before. But then the project stalled for non-technical reasons (app store review ). It made me question whether we're just measuring activity instead of actual impact. I wrote down my thoughts on this "productivity paradox." Curious to hear if others are experiencing the same thing.

Putting lipstick on a pig

Google needs to pay someone to come up with better demos. Atleast this one is 100x better than the talking to pluto dumb demo they came up with few years ago.

What's wrong with adafruit?

nothing specific, i guess - i'm just not mad about the design.

This should be illegal! This person could have cured cancer if they weren't building this kind of shit. (Only half joking)

It's really not very difficult to do this. RISC-V is deliberately quite a simple ISA. The Sail model for it is only a few thousand lines of code, and you don't need remotely that much to run Linux if you compile for a limited target ISA (no floating point, etc.).

One big missing feature in photos is OCR. In drive you can search images by the text in them.

Excerpt from Google IO 2018 keynote - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogfYd705cRs

Perhaps the LISA detector will be sensitive enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_Interferometer_Space_Ant...

OP said "a few". The paper says LIGO et al. are sensitive up to an order of 3 or 4; planned interferometers are targeted at lower ranges. The needed device needs to be sensitive to modes of at least order 12---but preferably order 21 & higher (to cover all theories). So, realistically, they're about 18 orders of magnitude off. Conservatively.

Probably to make sure the Rupee symbol renders properly: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3598085/displaying-the-in...