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Altoids by the Fistful

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/altoids-by-the-fistful/
51•todsacerdoti•2h ago

Comments

ggsp•2h ago
Hasn't work always been cat turds?
gwd•22m ago

    "[C]ursed is the ground because of you;
    in pain you shall eat of it all the days of your life;
    thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you;
    and you shall eat the plants of the field.
    By the sweat of your face
    you shall eat bread,
    till you return to the ground,
    for out of it you were taken;
    for you are dust,
    and to dust you shall return."
- Genesis 3:17-19
ur-whale•1h ago
This very long-winded page is exactly where requesting an LLM-generated summary totally shines.

For those even lazier/more impatient than I am, here's the prompt:

Please summarize the following web page in an A4 page or less:

https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/altoids-by-the-fistfu...

burgerone•1h ago
I really don't understand why you would deliberately condense a story crafted with intent into a lifeless AI summary.
ur-whale•1h ago
> I really don't understand why you would deliberately condense a story crafted with intent into a lifeless AI summary.

I'm going to take a guess that you're young and have loads of time to spend on absorbing random drivel just to figure out what it's about.

I'm not, and the precious little time I have left on this earth, I spend carefully, is all.

meheleventyone•1h ago
By reading slop based summaries of random drivel on the internet? Is that a win?
richrichardsson•1h ago
After the a couple of paragraphs that weren't really making any kind of point I started skimming; came to this conclusion before I got bored of even just skimming:

A jaded Grey-Beard rant; overall negative.

Perhaps there was some deeper message I missed due to the boredom.

saagarjha•58m ago
You spend it carefully by arguing with people in the comment section about your inappropriate use of AI?
thomascountz•1h ago
I find this comment quite ironic and can't tell if it's a commentary on the themes from the piece.

If it's not, once you've read the summary, take a moment to decide whether you think the original might be worth reading for yourself.

I, for one, liked the narrative style and found the story enjoyable. I did not read it only for the information.

edent•1h ago
Romeo and Juliet die at the end.

There you go, now there's no need to waste two hours of your life watching Shakespeare.

rkomorn•1h ago
With no spoiler alert? How uncouth.
actionfromafar•1h ago
Or just skip it instead. Such a text is meant to share a feeling.
peterldowns•1h ago
One object level suggestion is you shouldn't be doing string formatting manipulation to construct valid YAML objects as part of your ops pipeline; instead, do it all with actual data structures and then just render the result. Yes, I know that Helm directly encourages text templating — it's bad and wrong.

Beyond that, this a too-long essay about a deeply poisonous and discouraging worldview. I regret having read it. At least it wasn't written by AI!

abtinf•1h ago
> I’m no closer to anything resembling inner peace. I find I’ve grown to despise large swaths of the only thing I’ve ever been able to earn reliable income from. I tire of walking a path that has seemingly shifted beneath my feet to point toward a destination I no longer recognize. I’m embarrassed by the jerk my Younger Self used to be, and simultaneously ashamed of the energy I lost as I matured. I don’t really want to do most of what I have to do, while feeling a deep unsated need to achieve something that I have neither the stamina nor the freedom to pursue. At some point I’m going to reach down deep into the well of ambition to discover there ain’t nothing there to pull out anymore. And then?

What advice does one give when confronted with this?

BoredPositron•1h ago
To answer in his style:

The path didn't shift beneath your feet. You finally learned how to see in the dark, and realized you'd been walking in circles around a grave you dug for someone who was never real to begin with. What you're really mourning is the death of who you thought you had to be, and what feels like emptiness is actually the first honest space you've ever had to discover what you might want to become.

codeduck•1h ago
Oof. Nicely put, but you cut me!
icameron•1h ago
Enjoyed reading the crude observation that we eat cat turds for work. I like the author who watches the graffiti on the train ride rather than a phone screen. Was the “Spirograph butthole”meant to be a reference to a React app default favicon?
chanux•56m ago
AI apps I believe.
xandrius•49m ago
Honestly, if we're speaking of most graffiti (generally just tags in the same boring fashion) visible from a train, I'd rather to be looking at a phone screen.

At least the phone screen could be displaying something interesting but most graffitis are pseudo-artistic "I was here" tags. I wish more of that paint was used to actually make a place nicer rather than worse. And don't get me wrong, I'm totally ok with guerilla, technically illegal actions taken by citizens to improve their surroundings but most graffiti are far from that.

xnx•17m ago
> “Spirograph butthole”

Sounds like the Open AI logo

iberator•50m ago
I was sceptical but this is amazing!

>Look at me now, having to Google how to read a text file line-by-line in Python despite having done it a hundred times at this point

tonypapousek•47m ago
A saddening block of prose well worth the read, thanks for sharing.
psini•33m ago
Great read, putting into some beautiful prose undigested feelings that have been stewing in my stomach for a while. Maybe I should find a cabinet that's worth painting the back of to me
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