> Over the past six months I tried using Claude, chatgpt, Grok and Gemini. At best I got reminders of how things worked. People online say they use them to write their code. The code they supplied to me has NEVER worked or was so convoluted that I threw it away and did it myself.

I've been finding AI either works great for people or is just awful, and I'm having a hard time pinpointing where the problem is. I don't think there's a big intelligence gap between us, so it's not like others wouldn't be noticing the things you're claiming when using AI. I genuinely believe your experience has been bad, but the part I'm trying to figure out is why it's been bad.

So my questions are: have you given things a fair shot? Have you tried turning things on its side to see if approaching AI usage a different way results in significantly better and more useful results? Do you actually put thought into what you're writing in your prompts (i.e., if I took your prompt and gave it to a junior dev, would they know what to do)? Are you just using the free models available online or do you have a dedicated integration into your development environment through Github Copilot or other vendor(s)?

I mean what I'm about to say with zero offense, but this honestly reminds me of how the elderly generation says, "technology doesn't work for me because it's always broken", and when you go and try to coach them on how to use the technology that's problematic for them, it's as if you're casting black magic.

I don't think AI is the second coming of Christ or that we're anywhere near AGI, but I do believe it's an extremely useful tool that people should be using.

Because when the government decides you've done something wrong from said video (even if you haven't), it's up to you to prove your innocence. That's a direct contradiction of what the US was founded upon, and creates a very slippery slope.

> Yet we constantly see all this devaluation of the practice of software engineering ("code was always the easy part" - bull-fucking-shit)

Whenever I've used this phrase or seen other people use this phrase it's never been in the context of software engineering. It's always been in the context of literally just spitting out code that a compiler will accept. Believe it or not, a lot of students in CS cohorts have significant struggles fighting the compiler because they just don't understand the language they're programming in and are slow to become proficient (if they ever do). Thus, a lot of people have this idea that writing code, and I mean literally just spitting out something that compiles and runs is hard.

Doing that is indeed quite easy today. That's what we mean by "coding was always the easy part".

Writing code that actually scales into something bigger and is constructed in a way that meets requirements and is flexible? That's a whole different ball game. That's software engineering.

I have been asked numerous times now: "Did you ask Claude?"

It's insulting.

I've been pretty interested in cars lately, and Engineering Explained has some great videos. They can stretch a bit longer than 20 minutes, but I'll just pause the video and come back to it later when I have time.

And given that I've been interested in cars lately, Delivrd is a channel of this guy that negotiates car deals for a living, and it's actually really interesting to see the different behaviors of car dealerships. His videos are longer, but you can kind of just skip around since it's basically just livestream clips.

And finally, I've been watching lots of older spongebob, south park, and family guy episodes. Man those are hitting the spot right now.

What questions in particular are you thinking of that's purely about the engineering and ultimately not the political agenda?

Why did you need Mythos to do this? There's nothing that seems inherently difficult about what has been built here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like you've built a fancy looking site for a service that essentially generates a prompt for something that may be related to your business, and throws it into each of the major AI services (chatgpt, claude, gemini, etc) to see if it name drops your brand... and you want to charge $49/mo for that?

If you can get someone to pay you that, more power to you, but sheesh.

...why? This is something you could automate in about an hour using your own LLM subscription to drive the prompts.

Just mentioning this since no one else has yet: it could be your tonsils and/or adenoids, so it may also be worth seeing an ENT if you suspect this is the case.

Cause driving is fun and these systems get in the way without providing any noticeable benefit to me.

I tried lane keep assist in an audi a5 sportback, and it was genuinely terrifying to me. It felt like it was trying to drag me into oncoming traffic when going around curves.

Automatic braking sounds great on paper but practically speaking doesn't work out in my opinion, and once again seems to get in the way. Many people have reported getting frequent alerts while driving or even having ghost braking going on with their Subaru EyeSight systems. This wouldn't be an issue if I could confidently remove the system from my vehicle, but right now I practically can't without doing some heavy lifting on my own.