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> You are an expert Tailwind CSS developer that I will ask for help.

Is that part of the prompt necessary anymore? I feel that was a version 3 thing.

My prompts have been getting less verbose & I've been finding little value in introductory phrases, correct grammar or spelling.


I think so. I notice on Meta.ai that if I ask a follow up a question, it often loses context. Cordoning it off to you are this and only this could possibly stop it from straying.


You might be interested in this cool app that Microsoft made that I don't think I've seen anyone talk about anywhere called Speech Studio. https://speech.microsoft.com/

I don't recall their voices being the most descriptive but they had a lot. They also let layout a bunch of text & have different voices speak each line just like a movie script.


It's a race & unlike other bubble tech this one has proven itself to even the most conservative of people.

Yes there will be tons of terrible use cases & companies built on bad AI ideas. Those will crash like many .com companies did & most blockchain startups.

But a lot of people use it daily & continue to push it.


> So your suggestion is to issue a chargeback.. to get money back that should under the terms of whatever service you signed up for be owed?.

Funny story... One of the big cloud providers actually has you do that on purpose as a remedy for an account you've lost access to.


This reminds me of a recent talk by Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang. He discusses video compression history a bit. He proposes in the future one would just send a very small amount of data & then the computer displaying the video would recreate everything based on prior knowledge of the person talking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytZcvwZxkrg

Aside from personal use, it's well known that the amount of data being created every day is growing exponentially. Based on the article these discs are not meant for personal use but for data centers.


Sendgrid was my go to email provider for clients pre-acquisition.

Once they got bought out & forced their poorly implemented 2fa with mobile phone requirements, I had no choice but to find different providers.


Postmark FTW


Curious to hear your opinion on ODATA after using it on your projects. Pros, cons, anything.


I wonder if torrent sites are a better 1 stop shop place where you can find everything?

I also personally believe as tech makes it easier for indy type groups & average individuals to make longer form content, Netflix may just become irrelevant to companies like YouTube who have better distribution channels.


Underrated new book not mentioned here - Think Like a CTO by Alan Williamson


The link to the Basecamp article from several years ago should not be overlooked - https://basecamp.com/hill-charts

Hill charts are a great way to keep people informed about a project status. I think they make much more sense than estimates.


The entire shape up philosophy from Basecamp is honestly the best project management style I’ve been a part of in software engineering. The inversion of thinking around time (how long do I want to take vs. How long will this take?) is the most critical aspect of it.


Yup, that is so obvious in hindsight but I hadn't thought of it that way before. "We're willing to spend this much time, will you be able to do it?" is a much easier question both to ask and answer than "how much time will it take?"

It also encourages collaboration over adversarial negotiation.


This was much nicer for me to digest compared to the original post, thank you for sharing!


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