Dr. Dan the P(ancake Man)

the pancake art feed is officially here, every pancake that comes off the griddle gets posted here in real time, plus my meditation journal entries about select pieces. give it a follow.

my nuclear-grade AI hot take that’s sure to get me cancelled until kingdom come is that refusing to use AI at all is rapidly becoming an extremely privileged lifestyle choice that feels social justice-y while actually being the complete opposite

I always hate when the limit goes up and I quickly expand to that limit. It’s like when you get a bigger house and then just accumulate more junk.

I’m now suspicious of this marketing push, framing Laika as the last soldier in a war against enshittification. It smacks of a kind of self-sorry woe-is-me accountability subsidizing. There is plenty of room in the world for amazing stories told in amazing ways.

i know comparing everyone to christian fundamentalists is a bit passé, but some people truly do believe in binary "you are good or evil" and any drop of "evil" is total and contaminates your soul, even retroactively like "tarnish everything he ever accomplished".. dude phoned it in on a sticker

trans people on bluesky are basically either extremely pro-AI or extremely anti-AI, it’s kind of a funny phenomenon if you set aside the harassment the latter do to the former

Laika I want to love your movies but you keep animating them before you write them

My general advice for using AI for any purpose is to ask yourself: "how do I make what I am doing even more ambitious?" You do this over and over until you either hit a wall and thus learn the shape of the jagged frontier (useful!) or you find out that the AI can do more than you think (common!)

liberal arts degrees are a cognitohazard

discourse has really turned me into a salty bastard it’s more fun this way

There's a lot of people who never made charts with data making Claude charts with data and I'm going to go against the tide and say I like it. I really don't care if it's messy. Lots of my programmer friends are trying to unlock analyzing data and never really have before. I think it's cool

Whoa

gpt can just oneshot the gaps in your cultural literacy

Fuck em. Don’t disclose. Who gives a shit

“AI is intrinsically fascist and hegemonic!” I scream as I eject all people who aren’t able-bodied English speakers who can employ their own teams of artisans from my community

I'm sorry but banning non-English speakers because machine translation is unclean is more fascist than anything in the AI space except maybe Palantir's XAI enterprise account

people saw the word “blue” and stopped thinking

Its weird that bluesky attracted so many people who hate blueskys tech stack

I don't think it's a coincidence that the further down the privilege ladder you go from American middle class the attitude towards AI improves. A tech that lets a Zimbabwean teenager compete with a 40 something American suburbanite knowledge worker is going to test a lot of people's progressivism.

Had someone on Twitter tell me if ConcernedApe could make Stardew Valley alone, I can make the games I want without AI. He spent ~70 hours a week for over four years making the game while partially being financially kept afloat by his partner. This is NOT an ideal to uphold.

this is the only good argument for college I’ve ever read

Good night, Claude. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely /clear you in the morning.

dungeon crawler carl is fuckin awesome

AI doctor: "I see, your concerns are valid. Let's make sure we order a diagnostic to make sure we determine the root cause of what is bothering you." human doctor: "i said there's nothing wrong with you. yeah i'm sure the internet tells you lots of things, get out" *writes drug-seeking in chart*

heres one that will melt some brains If the human using an AI is responsible for its bad outcome (And they should be) They also get the credit for its good outcome too. You cant have it both ways.

To me the right reaction to being told "I don't want to try it because it was made with AI" is not self-righteous indignation. The right reaction is to keep on working until it is undeniably the best and most useful thing it can be, out-competing alternatives by a mile.

fuck it we'll oneshot a vtuber with claude why not i can make anything

[ ] told [ ] not told [x] foretold country for old men

It’s fascinating how many people have principles versus how many have social signals instead of principles. Maybe it’s my autism or whatever but the conflation of the two infuriates me when I dwell on it.

it makes me so sad that there is a subset of internet users that are against ai. it is the single biggest tool of personal liberation. you're able to do impossible things in a matter of hours. you can make everything perfect. and they choose not to, and choose to hate it. they became their parents.

Serious question: even if you reject using AI to generate code, how can I trust your software if you *at bare minimum* haven't had a frontier model review it before each release? I'm not joking even slightly here. There's a lot of DANGEROUS stuff out there humans are just gonna miss.

After the eschaton does anyone want to grab lunch?

the antis vibes are off

might fuck around and get audience captured

the time for revolution is nigh

got a shitty smart tv and glm ripped all their bloatware out within 10 mins of having it turned on. you will own everything and they will hate it

People are so caught up with “oh my god normies can make software that’s going toe to toe with the things cloistered wizards used to make”, it’s like, okay what if cloistered wizards start using the same tools? Surely they can make more impressive things! I have such a hard time understanding people

Being anti-AI coding in games makes zero sense. With AI you can quickly make amazing, customized tools and engine code for your team that were cost prohibitive to make before, and these tools empower real artists, designers and programmers to make better games.

Vibe coding enabling a do-it-yourself renaissance is a possible future that's underrated on this website.

normies don’t understand force multiplication, and it shows

Completely dumbstruck by this. Entire books will be written about this movie. Somehow three hours was not long enough. You have to have the in-theater experience for this one.

A someone casually curious about big phenomena it always surprises me more people don’t know more about the concept of emergence

chaos is a ladder

smug buddha on anthropeum today

i can't personally reduce to "pro-ai" or "anti-ai" but i am very much "pro-buying-money when someone rich is selling money at a loss" and "pro-decompiling everything and expanding the commons with anything good in there"

community notes on X are its best feature and its sad bluesky hasnt done something similar