Some quotes that resonated with me:

In any previous era, the quality of a piece of work was a more or less reliable signal of the competence of the person who produced it. A novice essay read like a novice essay; novice code crashed in novice ways. AI has severed that relationship.

The skills of producing work and judging it were deliberately distinct, but accomplishing the work itself used to teach the judgment. The first skill now belongs, in large part, to the machines. The second still belongs to us, though fewer are bothering to acquire or utilize it.

The slowness was not a tax on the real work; the slowness was the real work. It was how the work got good, and how the people producing the work got good

The current generation of agentic systems is built around the premise that the human is the bottleneck — that the loop runs faster and cleaner without the awkward delay of someone reading what is about to happen and deciding whether it should. This is, in a great many cases, exactly backwards

We tried training our AI on real-world bike-lane-respecting telemetry, but there just wasn’t enough data!

Downvote and move on. I’m trying to figure out why so many people are actively campaigning against this artist.

I get what you’re saying. To me, this reads like someone who takes pride in forming assumptions (and biases) about a team before speaking to any of its members. A fun game for them, perhaps, but less fun for the folks they are trying to pigeonhole.

I guess there’s a fine line between collecting information to have a productive, data-driven conversation, and doing it to avoid having a conversation entirely.

Also seems like they’re more interested in connecting with the boss than the developers themselves, which is probably something you need to do as a contractor, but yeah, it does alienate other developers.

Some tricks I’ve used in the past when huge sets of episodes are scrambled or misnamed and you need to start from square one matching them:

• Check if the files have any embedded metadata with the episode name or number using a tool like MediaInfo
• If the episodes have different runtimes, you can try to match them to runtimes listed on a well-labeled list of episodes, like on Wikipedia or in a torrent.
• Download a tool to auto-generate subtitles from the audio track. Probably won’t be accurate, but should give you enough of the dialogue to now search online and see what episode it is.
• If the show has a splash screen with the episode name at a fixed time, like many kids shows, you can auto-generate thumbnails at that time for all episodes
• Last resort: Manually watch enough of each episode to match it to the right episode synopsis on e.g. wikipedia and then label it appropriately
• Pirate option: Pretend you ripped it yourself and download a properly-curated set

I came to make sure grandson was mentioned. Their Soundcloud tagline is something like “the soundtrack to your revolution”.