Consumers may not know that a feature is something they want until they don't have it anymore.

Invert the situation. If every iPhone in history had a replaceable battery, until 2027 when the newest iPhone did not have a replaceable battery, I think we can all agree that the uproar would be significant.

Can you explain how exactly dictation is used for development? I type about 120 WPM so typing is always going to be way faster for me than talking. Aside for accessibility, is dictation development for slower typers or is it more so you can relax on a couch while vibe coding? If this comes off as condescension it's not intended, I am genuinely out of the loop here.

I think most people can speak faster than 120 WPM. For example this site says I speak at 343 WPM https://www.typingmaster.com/speech-speed-test/, and I self-measure 222 WPM on dense technical text.

Micro machines guy could be vibe coding at an absurd rate.

My LLM types at 2k WPM. So I ise that to talk to my LLMs

For me personally, it's not really about typing speed. While I can type pretty fast and most likely I speak faster than typing, but typing and dictating are just different way of doing things for me. While the end result of both is same, but for me it's just like different way of doing things and it's not a competition between the two.

I regularly just sit down and often just describe whatever I'm trying to do in detail and I speak out loud my entire thought process and what kind of trade-offs I'm thinking, all the concerns and any other edge cases and patterns I have in my mind. I just prefer to speak out loud all of those. I regularly speak out loud for 5 to 10 minutes while sometimes taking some breaks in between as well to think through things.

I am not doing it just for vibe coding, I'm using it for everything. So obviously for driving coding agents, but also for in general, describing my thoughts for brainstorming or having some kind of like a critique session with LLMs for my ideas and thoughts. So for everything, I'm just using dictation.

One other benefit I think for me personally is that since I'm interacting with coding agents and in general LLMs a lot again and again every day, I end up giving much more context and details if I'm speaking out loud compared to typing. Sometimes I might feel a little bit lazy to type one or two extra sentences. But while speaking, I don't really have that kind of friction.

Most English speakers speak faster than 120 wpm so that's probably why people, especially those who can't type at speeds like you can, prefer it.

Typing is considerably less energy intensive than speaking. At least it is for me. I save the speaking for meetings, etc.

Paolo Cortazar, is that you?

It's not that they don't want to pay, but they don't want to pay outrageously. Squarespace, etc. are stupid expensive for most websites. $5/mo is the limit for a lot of businesses, especially when they can't tell if having a website will even improve their traffic over just having a social media page.

The administration and billing side can also be confusing for a lot of non-technical business owners.

Once he creates the website, does he also host it and handle the billing for his clients? Is he using a website builder like Square space or hosting on AWS?

The hurdle is more than just building the site, a lot of really small non-technical businesses don't want the trouble of handling the billing and maintenance of the site.

It might just be static site hosting for businesses that want a real website, and not just a Facebook page. Static site hosting is so simple, I believe a 12 year old could do it.

I recently stood up a personal and a business site using Claude + Astro + GitHub + Cloudflare Pages, and apart from the Claude subscription, it’s all free.

Definitely not skills that are going to be in the typical restaurant owner’s wheelhouse (not hard to learn, just not likely to care) so you’d need to figure out how to host per-business to avoid hosting everything under one account and running over the free tier. But there’s very little management or payment necessary until you get quite a bit of traffic, which is probably not likely for your average suburban sandwich shop.

So, he's non-technical. He hasn't written a line of code. I don't know the details of how he hosts or deploys the sites, but I'd likely guarantee that he asked whatever AI he uses and it just walked him through the process of getting one hosted, then he has replicated that.

I mean, for a 12 year old, $200 and not having to do any more work in the future might be a good deal, and for a business, a $200 one-time probably seems like a steal. I agree that there might be long-term issues for them if they don't know how to maintain them, but what are they going to do, sue the 12 year old?

Half this country voted for and supports a vile lunatic president hell bent on destroying the U.S. to enrich his personal wealth and power. It's not surprising that over here we Democrats view Republicans as a cancer we want nothing to do with.

It wasn't always this way. In the past Republicans actually had some decency. That went out the window after they elected Trump twice.

> I don’t understand what gives the union power at the end of the day when the company could easily outsource development and license their ip and fire everyone.

Gamers are very passionate about their games and the companies behind them. They are also very anti-AI, pro consumer rights, and pro unions. At least the vocal majority of gamers, such as on /r/games, which is where a good portion of gaming journalists get their takes.

It would be the end of id Software from a PR standpoint if they fired union developers responsible for their beloved titles, specifically the recent DOOM titles. The bad PR would also extend to ZeniMax, Bethesda, and Microsoft.

That said, gamers are also the worst at voting with their wallet. Despite all the bad union PR Rockstar North is receiving, pretty much everyone in support of the fired employees will probably still end up buying GTA6 because of FOMO and hype.

The most important thing in life is yourself.

I'm not saying you should be wholly selfish, but you shouldn't be wholly selfless either.

"Love thy neighbor as thyself"

If you don't love yourself first, can you really love others to your fullest? Or in the context of your post, if your wellbeing is not the most important thing in your life, are you really able to do the best job at providing utility to others?

Too many wealthy people neglect their own wellbeing in the pursuit of providing utility to others, only to find themselves miserable later in life or die young due to poor health.

> Raph was the lead game designer on SWTOR a game that was way ahead of it's time

I think you meant Star Wars Galaxies, which was definitely ahead of its time and few MMORPGS have replicated its sandbox MMORPG since.