I mean n=1 but I starred, pulled, messed with using and extending it for a week, then dumped it and went back to my DIYclaw because it seems to spend fewer tokens and get more consistent results.
None of these projects are very good, but infra providers are happy to sell shovels to the hype rush.
Your DIYclaw experience tracks. Leaner setups beat bloated ones for people willing to wire things up themselves. Been building atmita.com as a cloud-hosted version for the crowd that won't do that at all: scheduled automations with bounded context and managed OAuth, so runs don't spiral into token churn. Honest tradeoff is less flexibility than a tuned DIY harness.
Yes I believe we're quickly approaching crypto territory, where distributed ledgers certainly have their valuable use cases, but the overwhelming _mindshare_ is active scamming and/or monkey jpegs.
There needs to be a concerted focus on real value for end users and less "yeah the terminator will take your job and raise your kids in your absence"
I'm curious about the sorts of users who care about style but will either one-shot with default style, not providing samples or direction, or who even choose models on that style rather than, you know, substance.
This is why I greatly prefer podcasts where the hosts read the ads. If you're going to take ad money, you better be willing to sell it with your own voice. All else is a descent into scam ad hell.
Everybody does that and has for the past 10 years. People sell the scammiest stuff then completely dissociate and say "sorry guys I didn't know that was a scam haha. I won't do it again. This program brought to you by Honey. I use it and it's great." Their viewers always forgive them.
Others are welcome to look past it. I've unsubbed from a lot of shite on clear signals that they'll say anything and stand for nothing. Ad reads are an incredibly easy, bright line for it if you're someone who gaf.
Can you name a YouTube channel that experienced a drop in viewership, subscribers, any metric whatsoever, after a sponsorship read turned out to be a scam?
In the 1990's and for us GenX'ers, selling out was the worst thing you could do; to take the man's money instead of keeping your integrity. Calling people and bands 'sell outs' (sometimes without justification!) was to insult them.
Now with the rise of 'influencers' selling out is the norm, and people are praised for doing so.
This is a massive shift in the cultural landscape and is perhaps something many born after ~2000 are unaware of.
None of these projects are very good, but infra providers are happy to sell shovels to the hype rush.
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