I agree that spending money on claude code is stupid. But the default opencode models are free. I used one last night to replace the ad-filled alarm clock android app I use with a 90% ai written one.
I worked with these firms for several years when the business concept was in its earlier stages. The money coming in to buy these homes quickly went from family offices (2013-2019) to state pension funds (2019-present) to sovereign funds (2020-present).
Things like the largest pension fund in Sweden is invested in buying SFR. Or the sovereign fund of the UAE.
I’m not sure if that changed your opinion on this not having practical benefit for the average American.
The 2024 D&D starter set literally has 3 adventure books for Wilderness (Outside), Caves of Chaos (Dungeon), and Keep on the Borderlands (Town). Of course that game has infinite possibilities for how to 'implement' those areas but kind of an interesting parallel.
After almost 5 years of lying dormant, I finally pushed an update to my iOS note-taking app — OctoNote!
OctoNote is a simple markdown-based note taking app that saves your notes as GitHub gists. This makes them easy to share, to edit on the web, and to maintain a rich editing history - since every gist is a little git repo. OctoNote basically enables a specific gist workflow - using gists to create & edit markdown files in the context of note-taking. If you're a developer who's already using GitHub (or has ever written a nice README), OctoNote should feel right at home in your workflow.
Just happy to share that I've been able to get this release out the door amid a crazy holiday schedule. Hope some of you might enjoy it!
It's insanely impressive. At the same time, all these videos all look terrible to me. Still get extreme uncanny valley and literally makes me sick to my stomach.
This stuff works really well when you make something that's exaggerated reality, as in either an animation or a MTV-style music video
I can't find the link now, but I saw a continuous shot video of a grocery store from the perspective of a fly. It was shot in the 90s music video style and looked so damn good.
Some of the stuff being done by these guys is also a whole lot of fun (slightly NSFW and political content), and it fits the music video theme:
Agree - leaps and bounds beyond anything I would have dreamed possible a few years ago...but... IDK, if I'm honest, the sound was way off too, not just the visuals. The music sounded detuned slightly, and the crowd noise was "crackly" etc. etc. It had a low-fidelity "quality" to it.
Personally, I feel mixed feelings. I'm impressed, but I'm not looking forward to the new "movies" that are going to litter YouTube et al generated from this.
It's insanely impressive. At the same time, all these videos all look terrible to me. Still get extreme uncanny valley and literally makes me sick to my stomach.
