@evan.exposed was Walz the creator of dark woke?
@jukkan.bsky.social yeah mine hover around 1k a month as well, but i guess i am a knowledge worker. if you’re not then perhaps the base covers it
@jukkan.bsky.social that’s fair i guess. not really complaining about the price, but i guess i just don’t know anyone who the 5 dollar service would even cover
@jukkan.bsky.social love kagi as well but i will say that $5 a month is not the whole story, immediately had to upgrade to the $10 plan within a week. still great / worth it for me though
@jjvincent.bsky.social completely agree. i often find myself going back and forth between believing the hype and being a skeptic, sometimes on a daily basis due to this. its capable of assisting me in writing / reviewing my code with incredible accuracy, but also has no idea what The Blue Prince is
@jjvincent.bsky.social I think part of the momentum sustained by the fact that the best emergent used case we have seen so far is Software Engineering. it’s kind of transformed basically everyone’s lives at the major companies, but it also hasn’t replaced anyone
@lorenzofb.bsky.social i do! and by SAC i only mean 1/2. anything after doesn’t exist
@lorenzofb.bsky.social i really need to rewatch SAC
@gamingvlognetwork.com brother please i’m starving
@chadloder.bsky.social genuinely thank you so much for writing this thread. For the past two years, I’ve felt like absolutely insane trying to voice what is essentially this opinion
@chadloder.bsky.social the ultimate problem is the cost of this in basically every sense, though, and that’s kinda what’s the limiting factor imo. but eventually once a thing like 4o can run on a laptop it should be commonplace
@chadloder.bsky.social you can absolutely build screen readers with models that are capable of being concise when they need to be. and even build systems where the the users themselves get to control the conciseness, even determine themselves what they want to focus on, or use the surrounding context of the page
@chadloder.bsky.social I’m not suggesting this is a thing that sites use themselves, but rather screen readers and various tools that allow users to generate concise identifiers, descriptive ones etc. and again, importantly, services like Be My Eyes.
@chadloder.bsky.social lmao nah i know exactly what you’re talking about. i used it to write a bunch of management scripts for my self hosted mastodon instance
@chadloder.bsky.social e.g. doesn’t replace a human writing descriptions. but it can add to areas that aren’t accessible, or enhance those descriptions with additional details i forgot to write
@chadloder.bsky.social again, I didn’t really say that it would replace a person writing alt text. But most of the images on the web do not have that, and it’s better than nothing. also, importantly, there isn’t any alt text in real life walking around outside
@chadloder.bsky.social oh absolutely yeah. i hate writing bash so much, and i basically never do it anymore
@chadloder.bsky.social i think there’s massive potential benefits wrt accessibility, e.g. image -> text for low vision. but imo all of its applications should only supplement and not replace an actual person in the loop
@simonwillison.net i THINK the ios app has done this automatically so far? but i’ve mostly tested it on web images / screenshots
@chadloder.bsky.social i’ll be honest i’ve yet to see one that has, personally. like that’s probably my position too if that’s the case
@goose.art okay never mind. it’s a fucking honeypot
@goose.art I guess the thought process is that without the pro features like custom domains, etc., the static pages won’t get much traffic
@evan.exposed my thought is this would allow networks to set alt text as a default by lowering the effort barrier
@goose.art yeah they were bought a few years ago